The 11+ by area

There is no single 11+. Each selective area sets its own test, with its own papers, its own timings and its own registration deadline — and a test taken in one county is usually no use in the next.

These guides describe what is actually in each test, taken from the council’s own pages rather than from other preparation sites, and where a child’s vocabulary decides marks.

• Kent

  the Kent Test

  What the papers contain, how the year runs, and the part of it nobody revises for.

• Medway

  the Medway Test

  Three papers, tight timings, and the thing that quietly decides two of them.

• Buckinghamshire

  the Secondary Transfer Test

  Two papers, three weighted strands, and one qualifying number.

Not sure which exam board your child’s test comes from? We wrote about the change in CEM has gone: which 11+ exam your child is actually sitting.