Our Practice Papers and Answers
KENT ENGLISH AND MATHEMATICS PAPER 1
The papers we’ve shared above are in a similar style to the Kent Test papers and those typically delivered as 11 Plus assessments by Dartford Grammar School for Girls.
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Other Sample Papers and Answers
English Paper 1
English Paper 2
English Paper 3
Maths Paper 1
Maths Paper 2
Maths Paper 3
Verbal Reasoning Paper 1
Verbal Reasoning Paper 2
Verbal Reasoning Paper 3
Non-Verbal Reasoning Paper 1
Non-Verbal Reasoning Paper 2
Non-Verbal Reasoning Paper 3
The papers we’ve shared above are in a similar style to those typically delivered as 11 Plus assessments by Dartford Grammar School for Girls.
About the School
Address — Dartford Grammar School for Girls, Shepherds Lane, Dartford, Kent, DA1 2NT
Type of school — Girls’ grammar school
Headteacher — Mrs Sharon Pritchard
Cost — Free
Pupils in school — 1197
Places available in year 7 — 180
Average applicants per place — 5 or more.
Catchment area — Dartford Grammar School for Girls does have a catchment area which is based on distance from the school. It consists of:
Ash-cum-Ridley
Bean
Crockenhill
Darenth
Eynsford
Farningham
Fawkham
Hartley
Hextable
Horton Kirby and South Darenth
Longfield and New Barn
Southfleet
Stone
Sutton at Hone and Hawley
Swanley
Swanscombe and Greenhithe
West Kingsdown
Wilmington
Dartford Grammar School for Girls Catchment Area
Oversubscription policy — Before the application of oversubscription criteria, students with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) which names the school and who have passed the assessment will be admitted. As a result of this the published admissions number will be reduced accordingly.
Where qualifying applications for admission exceed the number of places available, places will be allocated in the following order of priority:
Eligible students who are presently or were previously in Local Authority care.
Eligible students in receipt of Pupil Premium at the time of entry to the school.
100 places will be reserved for girls residing in Dartford or one of the named parishes in the catchment area.
Remaining eligible girls seeking a school place, irrespective of their address
If the school is oversubscribed within any of the above oversubscription categories, students will be ranked in the following order:
Those performing best in the Kent Test (highest aggregate score).
In the case of tied scores, preference is given to the applicant living nearest to the school.
School Summary
Dartford Grammar School for Girls was founded in 1904 and is a girls’ grammar school in Dartford, Kent. The school specialises in science, maths and IT. It became an academy in 2017.
The school has a large attached sixth form which consistently scores well.
Dartford works around its principal values:
Respect
Responsibility
Excellence
Dedication
Creativity
Ofsted rated this school as ‘outstanding’ in 2016. Find their reports here.
Compare this school’s performance with other local schools here.
Exam Information
Exam style —GL Assessment/The Kent Test
Exam topic:
Reasoning
Verbal, non-verbal and spatial
English and maths
Creative writing
Exam length — 2 x 1 hour exams + a 40-minute writing exercise.
Pass rate — In 2017, 15,253 applicants took the Kent test; only 6,537 passed.
Other exam information:
The reasoning, English and maths tests are multiple-choice with a separate answer sheet.
The first test will be an English and Maths paper. Each section will include a 5 minute practice exercise followed by a 25 minute test. The English section will involve a comprehension exercise as well as some additional questions drawn from a set designed to test literacy skills.
The second test will be the reasoning paper. It will take about 1 hour, including the practice sections and questions. It will contain a verbal reasoning section and a non-verbal reasoning section of roughly the same length. The non-verbal reasoning will be split into short sections, administered and timed individually.
Finally, there will also be a writing exercise which will not be marked but may be used by a local headteacher panel as part of the headteacher assessment stage of the process. 40 minutes will be allowed for the writing task, including 10 minutes planning time.
Scores:
Your child will get three standardised scores (one for English, one for maths and one for reasoning) and a total (aggregate) score.
Standardisation is a statistical process which compares your child's performance with the average performance of other children in each test. A slight adjustment is made to take account of each child's age so that the youngest are not at a disadvantage.
Pass mark:
To qualify, children needed a total score of 332 or more, with no single score lower than 108. Test scores range from 69 to 141. The highest possible total score is 423.
If your child did not reach this threshold score and their primary school referred their case to the local Head Teacher Assessment Panel, the panel will have looked at their achievement in school and examples of their work, including the writing task completed on the day, before a final decision was made.
Please note that a score of over 332 does NOT mean your child is guaranteed a place at your chosen school.
Contact information
Website — https://www.dartfordgrammargirls.kent.sch.uk/
Contact — https://www.dartfordgrammargirls.kent.sch.uk/7/general
Facebook — https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=107403885948710
LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/dartford-grammar-school/
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