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 Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys.
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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 Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys.
About the School
Address — Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys, St John's Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9XB
Type of school — Boys’ grammar school
Headteacher — Ms Amanda Simpson
Cost — Free
Pupils in school — 1294
Places available in year 7 — 300
Average applicants per place — 4 or more.
Catchment area — Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys does have a catchment area with priority based on location and distance from the school.
The catchment area consists of children who live within a 3-mile radius of the school, following by children living in the named parishes below:
Badgers Mount, Bidborough, Brasted, Capel, Chevening, Chiddingstone, Cowden, Dunton Green, Edenbridge, Hadlow, Halstead, Hever, Hildenborough, Ightham, Kemsing, Knockholt, Leigh, Otford, Pembury, Penshurst, Plaxtol, Riverhead, Rusthall, Seal, Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks Weald, Shipbourne, Shoreham, Southborough, Speldhurst, Sundridge with Ide hill, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Westerham.
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:
Children in Local Authority Care or Previously in Local Authority Care
Children with a sibling who will still be attending the school when the applicant joins.
Children with Health and Special Access Reasons for applying to the school.
Children who live within a 3 mile radius of the school
Children who live in the named parishes of the catchment area (please see above).
Distance from home to school (outside the catchment area). With the closest given priority.
School Summary
Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys (TWGSB) was established in 1956. It is an all-boys grammar school in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. The school’s sixth form is co-educational and admits both boys and girls.
The school's Latin motto is Faber est quisque suæ fortunæ meaning "Every man is the maker of his own fortune". The school operates over its Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks sites. TWGSB specialises in humanities.
Ofsted rated this school as ‘good in 2013. 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.twgsb.org.uk/
Contact — https://www.twgsb.org.uk/337/contact-us
Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/TWGSB
Twitter — https://twitter.com/twgsb
Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/twgsb6/?hl=en
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClKaj-Bm2ubuVtxfPUKZ7Lg
LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/school/tunbridge-wells-grammar-school-for-boys/
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