Shoeburyness High School | Free 11 Plus (11+) Practice Papers and Answers

February 28, 2024 The Exam Coach

Practice Papers and Answers

The test papers we’ve shared above are in a similar style to those typically delivered as 11 Plus assessments by Shoeburyness High School.

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About the School

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Address — Shoeburyness High School, Caulfield Road, Shoeburyness, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS3 9LL

Type of school — Partially selective, mixed grammar school

Cost — Free

Pupils in school — 1800+

Places available in year 7 — 310+ (around 10% of which are selective)

Average applicants per place — 4 or more

Catchment area — Shoeburyness High School has a catchment area. Please see the map below.

Shoeburyness High School Catchment Area

Oversubscription policy — Where qualifying applications for admission exceed the number of places available, places will be allocated in the following order of priority:

Looked After Children and previously Looked After Children.
Up to 31 pupils will be granted preferential admission on the basis of their performance in the selection test procedure organised by the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex.
1. If any selective places remain unfilled, the Governors should consider whether any of the remaining applicants who took the selection tests are eligible to be awarded a borderline selective place. In doing so, preference will be given to those students with the highest scores in order of merit (298 or above).
Pupils who live in the catchment area served by the school and who have an older sibling attending the school.
Pupils who live in the catchment area served by the school.
Pupils who live outside the catchment area served by the school and who have an older sibling attending the school.
Pupils who live outside the catchment area served by the school.

Within each category, priority will be given to a pupil in public care. Therefore, a pupil in public care living outside the catchment area for the school will get preference over a pupil not in public care living inside the catchment area.

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School Summary

Shoeburyness High school is a partially selective, mixed, grammar school in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. The school became an academy in 2011 and has been a technology specialist college since 1999. It also has a CAD/CAM Centre.

In 2008, the school became a Leading Space Education School after the creation of a Year 8 Space Academy Course. The school works with local primary schools as part of this course.

Shoeburyness High School is a member of the Southend East Community Academy Trust (SECAT). It is also part of the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex:

CSSE Members. (Source)

Find the most recent Ofsted reports here.

Compare this school’s performance with other local schools here.

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Exam Information

Exam style — The Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex (CSSE).

Exam topics:

English and Verbal Reasoning
Maths and Non-Verbal Reasoning

Exam length — 2 × 1 hour exams (plus 10 minutes reading time).

Qualifying score — 298

Other exam information:

The English paper will consist of comprehension, grammar and vocabulary, creative/extended writing, and applied reasoning (literacy and verbal).
The Mathematics paper will consist of questions consistent with KS2 National curriculum and applied reasoning (mathematical/non-verbal).
The overall score will have a 50:50 weighting - English (50%) and Mathematics (50%).
Score will be aggregated and mathematically standardised for each candidate.

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