Practice Papers and Answers
English Paper 1
Mark Scheme (Creative Writing)
English Paper 2
Exam Paper (Comprehension and Creative Writing)
Mark Scheme (Creative Writing)
English Paper 3
Mark Scheme (Creative Writing)
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 St Bernard’s High School.
About the School
Address — St Bernard’s High School, Milton Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 7JS
Type of school — Girls’ partially selective grammar school
Headteacher — Mr Anthony Sharpe
Religious character — Roman Catholic
Cost — Free
Pupils in school — 883
Places available in year 7 — 175 (63 selective based on the CSSE 11+ exams)
Average applicants per place — 5 or more.
Catchment area — St Bernard High School does have a catchment area which gives priority based on location and distance from the school.
St Bernard’s High School’s Catchment Area
You can check if your postcode is in the catchment area here.
Oversubscription policy — Where qualifying applications for admission exceed the number of places available, places will be allocated in the following order of priority:
Catholic children in public care or who were previously in public care.
Practising Catholic girls living in the following parishes, whose application is supported by a Certificate of Catholic Practice from their Parish Priest: Our Lady of Lourdes, Leigh-on-Sea; St. Helen’s, Westcliff-on-Sea; Sacred Heart, Southend- on-Sea; St. Teresa’s, Rochford; St. George’s, Shoebury; St. Peter’s, Eastwood; St. John Fisher, Prittlewell; Holy Family, South Benfleet; Our Lady of Ransom, Rayleigh and Our Lady of Canvey, Canvey Island.
Other practising Catholic girls whose application is supported by a Certificate of Catholic Practice from their Parish Priest.
Baptised Catholics whose application is not supported by a Certificate of Catholic Practice from their Parish Priest.
Other children in public care or who were previously in public care.
Girls of the Eastern Orthodox Church and whose normal place of residence lies within the priority area whose application is supported by their priest.
Practising Christian girls attending Catholic Primary schools, whose application is supported in writing by their Minister.
Practising Christian girls whose normal place of residence lies within the priority area and whose application is supported in writing by their Minister.
Non-Christian girls whose normal place of residence lies within the priority area and whose application is supported in writing by their local religious leader
Applications from girls who do not fall into the above categories.
Up to 63 selective places will be offered to girls who have passed the 11+ Exam Selective Test as administered by the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex and whose normal place of residence lies within the priority area. If two or more girls tie for the final selective place, then it will be awarded using the oversubscription criteria.
School Summary
St Bernard’s High School was founded in 1910 and is a Roman Catholic, partially selective girls’ school in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex with a mixed sixth form. The school specialises in the arts and science. It became an academy in 2011.
The school produces consistently high GCSE and A-Level results. In the most recent set of school performance tables, which were published in 2019, Year 11 students at St Bernard’s achieved a Progress 8 figure of 0.89, the highest score in Southend; this score placed St Bernard’s in the top 100 schools in the country.
The school is part of the Consortium of Selective Schools in Essex:
CSSE Members. (Source)
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 — 303 (in past years a score of above 310 has ensured a place).
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.
Contact information
Website — https://www.stbernardswestcliff.org.uk/
Contact — http://www.stbernardswestcliff.org.uk/page/?title=Contact+Us&pid=2
Facebook — https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=144943765520681
LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/st-bernard%27s-high-school
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