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

Oversubscription policy - Candidates will only be considered eligible for admission if they meet the required qualifying score of 121 in the Buckinghamshire Secondary Transfer Test (STT).

Girls who qualify and have an Education, Health and Care Plan naming the school will be admitted prior to the application of these admission rules.

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

A ‘looked after child’ or previously looked after child.
Qualified disadvantaged girls whose normal home address is in the catchment area of the school (up to a maximum of 12 places for Year 7 girls).
Girls whose normal home address is in the catchment area of the school.
Younger sisters of current students in Years 7 to 12 at the point of allocation and who will still be on the roll of the school at the time of the proposed admission.
Other qualified disadvantaged girls whose normal home address is in the catchment area of the school.
Daughters of a member of Wycombe High School staff where a) the member of staff has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission to the school is made, and/or b) the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant teaching post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
Younger sisters of current students in Years 7 to 12 at other secondary schools in the Wycombe High School Academies Trust as shown on the school’s website www.whs.bucks.sch.uk who will be on the roll of their school at the time of the proposed admission.
Other qualified disadvantaged girls
Once the above rules have been applied, any further places will be offered in distance order, using the distance between the girl’s normal home address and the school’s nearest open entrance gate, offering the closest first.

Where two or more applicants have a home address at the same distance from the school and it is necessary to decide which child will be admitted, random allocation will be used. The random allocation process will be independently supervised.

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School Summary

Established in 1901, Wycombe High School is a girls-only grammar school. It became an academy in 2011. The school has specialises in mathematics and computing. It has won many awards, including:

The Artsmark Gold Award
The Healthy Schools Award
The Investors in People Award
NACE Challenge Award
The Sportsmark Award

In recent years, around 75% of all GCSE results received a grade 9-7.

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 — GL Assessment.

Exam types:

Verbal reasoning
Non-verbal reasoning
Maths

Exam length — 2 × 45 minute exams.

Qualifying Score — 121 or above.

This score is calculated by age-standardising the child’s scores and adding the marks from both exams together. The topics have the following weighting: 50% verbal reasoning; 25% maths and 25% non-verbal reasoning.

Other exam information —

The first paper includes: comprehension, technical English and verbal reasoning.

The second paper includes: non-verbal reasoning, spatial reasoning and maths.

Questions must be answered in the separate answer booklet provided.

Score will be standardised.

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