Our Practice Papers and Answers
GL ENGLISH PAPER 1
GL MATHEMATICS PAPER 1
The papers we’ve shared above are in a similar style to GL papers and those typically delivered as 11 Plus assessments by Fort Pitt Grammar School.
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Other Sample Papers and Answers
Verbal Reasoning Paper 1
Verbal Reasoning Paper 2
Verbal Reasoning Paper 3
MATHS PAPER 1
MATHS PAPER 2
MATHS PAPER 3
The papers we’ve shared above are in a similar style to those typically delivered as 11 Plus assessments by Fort Pitt Grammar School.
About the School
Address — Fort Pitt Grammar School, Fort Pitt Hill, Chatham, Kent, ME4 6TJ
Type of school — Girls’ grammar school
Headteacher — Miss Nicky Archer
Cost — Free
Pupils in school — 836
Places available in year 7 — 150
Average applicants per place — 4 or more.
Catchment area — Fort Pitt Grammar School does have a catchment area which is based on distance from the school.
Girls residing within 2 miles of the school will be prioritised first, followed by girls residing in the following local parishes:
Allhallows
Cliffe and Cliffe Woods
Cooling
Cuxton
Frindsbury Extra (includes Wainscott and Upnor)
Halling
High Halstow
Hoo St Werburgh (includes Chattenden)
St James
Isle of Grain
St Mary Hoo
Stoke
Oversubscription policy — Where qualifying applications for admission exceed the number of places available, places will be allocated in the following order of priority:
Children in Local Authority Care or Previously in Local Authority Care.
Children with a sibling at the school at the time of application or who will be still attending when the applicant is admitted.
Children attending Fort Pitt Thomas Aveling (FPTA) Junior Academies (namely, Balfour Junior Academy and Phoenix Junior Academy).
Children of staff at the school (where the member of staff has been employed for three years or more at the time at which the application for admission to the Academy is made and/or where the member of staff is recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage).
Children residing within 2 miles of the school.
Children residing in one of the named parishes above.
All other eligible girls seeking a school place.
School Summary
Fort Pitt Grammar School was established in 1929 and it is an all-girls grammar school in Chatham, Kent. The school gets its name from the Napoleonic fort which was once built on the site as part of the defences overlooking the River Medway. It became an academy in 2010.
The school’s ethos is founded on the four ‘excellences’: academic, community, appearance and environment. The school believes that together these values create a school where achievement and happiness go hand in hand.
Fort Pitt specialises in science and maths. Since 2012, the school has worked with other local schools as part of the Fort Pitt Grammar School Academy Trust. Fort Pitt has Leading Edge status and is a National Support School.
Ofsted rated this school as ‘outstanding’ in 2009. Find their reports here.
Compare this school’s performance with other local schools here.
Exam Information
Exam style — GL - The Medway Test.
Exam topic:
Extended writing
Mathematics
Verbal reasoning
Exam length — 3x 50 minutes exams.
Pass rate — The Medway Tests are designed to assess and select the top 23% of the children in the year group to go to a grammar school.
Pass mark —The tests are designed to assess and select 23% of the children in the year group to go to a grammar school.
Any child who has taken the Medway Tests and achieved scores that are below the minimum score will be deemed non-eligible.
Please note - Scoring above the minimum score does not guarantee your child a place at your chosen school.
Other exam information:
The verbal reasoning and maths exams are 50 minutes each. Both are multiple choice.
The English test is one people of writing which lasts 50 minutes, including 10 minutes to plan.
The Medway Test is sat by children in year 6 at their own school if they go to a Medway school (except Kings School in Rochester) or in a Medway Test Centre if they go to schools outside of Medway.
The following formula is used to calculate the total weighted score for each child:
Extended Writing standardised score x 2 + Mathematics standardised score x 2 + Verbal reasoning standardised score x 1
= the total weighted score
All scores will be standardised.
Contact information
Website — https://fortpitt.medway.sch.uk/new/
Contact — https://fortpitt.medway.sch.uk/new/contact-us/
Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/fortpittgrammar
Twitter — https://twitter.com/fortpittgrammar
Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/fort_pitt_grammar_school_/
LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/fort-pitt-grammar-school
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