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Dr Challoner's High School β 11 Plus Entrance Exam Information
11 Plus Exam Dates
11 Plus Exam Format
11 Plus Exam Board
11 Plus Exam Pass Mark and Target Score
Dr Challoner's High School β 11 Plus Admissions Process
How to Apply for 11 Plus (11+) Entry to Dr Challoner's High School?
Is Dr Challoner's High School Part of a Consortium?
Does Dr Challoner's High School Have a Catchment Area?
How Does Place Allocation Work?
Admissions Policy Information
Dr Challoner's High School β How to Prepare for the 11 Plus Exams?
Free 11 Plus (11+) Practice Exam Papers
11 Plus Courses and Classes
Dr Challoner's High School β 11 Plus Exam Information
11 Plus Exam Dates
September of Year 6
11 Plus Exam Format
English π
Mathematics β
Verbal Reasoning π§
Non-Verbal Reasoning π²
11 Plus Exam Board
GL Assessment (The Secondary Transfer Test)
11 Plus Exam Pass Mark and Target Score
The pass mark for each year is decided after the tests have been marked.
The topics have the following weighting: 50% English and verbal reasoning; 25% maths and 25% non-verbal reasoning.
Other Exam information
All questions are multiple choice.
Students will sit two papers, each lasting 45 minutes.
One paper includes comprehension, technical English and verbal reasoning.
The other includes non-verbal reasoning, spatial reasoning and maths.
Dr Challoner's High School β 11 Plus Admissions
How to Apply for 11 Plus (11+) Entry to Dr Challoner's High School?
Applications to sit the entrance exam must be made on the school website over the summer before your child begins Year 6. You can register here.
You must also formally apply for a place at the school before midnight on the 31st of October (when your child is in Year 6) to be considered. You can find out more about applying for secondary schools in your local area here.
Is Dr Challoner's High School part of a Consortium?
Dr Challoner's High School is part of the Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools.
Does Dr Challoner's High School have a catchment area?
Dr Challoner's High School does have a catchment area. However, entry to the school is based firstly on the scores achieved in the 11+ tests.
Enter your postcode into Buckinghamshire Council's catchment area checker here.
How Does Place Allocation Work?
Where qualifying applications exceed the number of places available, places will be allocated in the following order of priority:
Looked after or previously looked after girls.
Girls in receipt of Pupil Premium and living in the catchment area of the school.
Daughters of staff (teaching and support) where 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 where the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
Girls living in the catchment area of the school on 1 April in the year preceding the year of entry.
Sisters of girls who are on the roll of the school at the time allocations are made and who will be on the roll of the school at the time of the proposed admission.
Girls who have exceptional medical or social needs which can only be met at this school.
Any further places will be offered in distance order using straight line distance between the familyβs normal home address and the main entrance to the school on Cokes Lane.
Admissions Policy Information
Dr Challoner's High School β How to Prepare for the 11 Plus Exams?
Free 11 Plus (11+) Practice Exam Papers
New 11+ practice papers are sent out via email every Friday. You can sign up to receive these, every week, using the form above.
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