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 The Skinners’ School.
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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 The Skinners’ School.
About the School
Address — The Skinners’ School, St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9PG
Type of school — Boys’ grammar school
Headteacher — Mr Edward Wesson
Cost — Free
Pupils in school — 1093
Places available in year 7 — 160
Average applicants per place — 5 or more.
Catchment area — The Skinners’ School does have a catchment area which is made up of an inner and outer area. Up to 140 places will be offered to children in the ‘West Kent Area’, which covers the area within
The inner area consists of the area three miles of the school measured by straight line distance, plus the following named parishes:
Badgers Mount Bidborough Brasted
Brenchley Capel Chevening
Chiddingstone Cowden Dunton Green
Edenbridge Goudhurst Hadlow
Halstead Hever Hildenborough
Horsmonden Ightham Kemsing
Knockholt Lamberhurst Leigh
Otford Paddock Wood Pembury
Penshurst Plaxtol Riverhead
Rusthall Seal Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks Weald Shipbourne Shoreham
Southborough Speldhurst Sundridge with Ide Hill
Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Westerham
The outer area is defined as being outside the West Kent Area described above, but within the mainland of the United Kingdom.
Inner Area Map
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.
140 places are allocated to students resident in the inner area.
20 places are allocated to students resident in the outer area.
Where qualifying applications for admission exceed the number of inner Area places available, places will be allocated in the following order of priority:
Up to 8 places for pupils, from the defined West Kent Area, registered in that academic year for the Pupil Premium.
Up to 132 places to other pupils from the defined West Kent Area, prioritised as follows. Those living in the West Kent Area with a PESE (11+) score of 360 or more, ranked in order of
Siblings attending the school at the time of application;
Sons of members of staff with at least two years’ service at the time application for admission is made, or if the member of staff has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
Those living the shortest distance from the school.
Where qualifying applications for admission exceed the number of outer area places available, places will be allocated in the following order of priority:
Up to 2 places for pupils, from outside the defined West Kent Area, registered in that academic year for the Pupil Premium.
Up to 18 places to other pupils from outside the defined West Kent Area, prioritised as follows. Those living in the West Kent Area with a PESE (11+) score of 360 or more, ranked in order of
Siblings attending the school at the time of application;
Sons of members of staff with at least two years’ service at the time application for admission is made, or if the member of staff has been recruited to fill a vacant post for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
Those living the shortest distance from the school.
Please note - The furthest outer area place offered in 2020 was 7.8 miles straight line distance from the school (not including siblings or those on Free School Meals).
School Summary
The Skinners’ School was established in 1887 and is an all-boys grammar school in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Skinners’ (as it is commonly known) was previously known as the Skinners’ Company’s Middle School for Boys as it was founded by the Worshipful Company of Skinners (a livery company from London). The school specialises in maths and science.
The school has a large attached sixth form and became an academy in 2014.
Ofsted rated this school as ‘outstanding’ in 2007. 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.skinners-school.co.uk/
Contact — https://www.skinners-school.co.uk/contact-us/staff-contact-list/
Twitter — https://twitter.com/LeopardTweets
LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-skinners'-school/
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