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 The Rochester 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 The Rochester Grammar School.
About the School
Address — The Rochester Grammar School, Maidstone Road, Rochester, Kent, ME1 3BY
Type of school — Girls’ grammar school
Headteacher — Mrs Clare Brinklow
Cost — Free
Pupils in school — 1236
Places available in year 7 — 205
Average applicants per place — 4 or more.
Catchment area — The Rochester Grammar School does have a catchment area which is based on distance from the school.
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:
Children in Local Authority Care or Previously in Local Authority Care.
Pupils eligible for pupil premium funding*. Places will be allocated in priority order using the criterion below:
Children currently registered as eligible for free school meals.
Children who have been registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last six years.
Children whose parent(s) are serving in the regular UK armed forces.
Children of ex regular UK armed forces personnel who were serving in the last 3 years.
Children where at least one parent died while serving in the UK armed forces and the child is in receipt of a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) and the War Pensions Scheme (WPS).
Children with a sibling at the school at the time of application or who will be still attending when the applicant is admitted.
Children who attend any of the following Thinking Schools Academy Trust’s Medway primary schools: New Horizons Children’s Academy, The Gordon Children’s Academy, All Faiths Children’s Academy and Cedars Children’s 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).
Child’s health reasons, supported by medical evidence, which requires the child to attend this school.
Nearness of the children’s homes to the school. Distance will be based on the shortest distance from home to school.
School Summary
The Rochester Grammar School was established in 1888 and is an all-girls grammar school in Rochester, Kent. The school is part of the Thinking School Academy Trust and became an academy in 2011.
The school specialises in maths, computing and music. It has won the International Schools and Investors in Careers awards. It also hold Healthy Schools status, is a National Support School and is an International Baccalaureate Organisation World School.
Ofsted rated this school as ‘outstanding’ in 2008. 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://www.rochestergrammar.org.uk/
Contact — https://www.rochestergrammar.org.uk/about-our-school/contact-us/
Facebook — https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=112349738780690
Twitter — https://twitter.com/tsa_trust
LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-rochester-grammar-school/about/
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