Warwickshire 11+ - Children's Educational Material 11+ TM
The Warwickshire 11+ exams are for entrance in to five grammar schools and one bilateral school in the area. Birmingham and Warwickshire share the same test. The schools use tests from GL Assessment. The 11+ tests are not tutor-proof and are easy to prepare for. Complete solutions are available using WordBuilder.co.uk and CoolCleverKids.co.uk.
Warwickshire grammar schools are backward and still believe in the outdated concept of catchment areas. They do not believe all children should have an equal opportunity to attend a grammar school and operate bizarre address requirements that effectively amounts to local apartheid. There is nothing stopping families moving outside the catchment area after the first term. All sixth forms are now mixed, with the exception of Stratford Girl`s Grammar School which severely discriminates against boys and indicates a shameful misandric attitude which would not be tolerated if reversed.
2026 Year 7 Entry for Warwickshire Grammar Schools
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Registration |
7th May 2025 to 30th June 2025 4pm Reasonable Adjustment deadline 30th June 2025 4pm |
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Test Dates |
Saturday 13th September, 2025 Morning and Afternoon sessions
Sunday 14th September, 2025 for followers of the Jewish and Seven Heavens faiths (who object to Saturday testing and want to know content from others) |
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Sharred Test |
West Midlands Grammar Schools [GL Assessment] |
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Results |
17th October 2025 |
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Test Supplier |
GLA Tests (GL Assessment)
Weighting is 50% for verbal ability, 25% for numerical ability 25% for non-verbal ability.
The test is made up of two papers, each approximately 60 minutes long (which includes time for instructions and example questions). Each test paper is divided into smaller individual sections that test English Comprehension, Verbal Reasoning, Mathematics and Non-Verbal/Spatial Reasoning. There are no sections of writing within the test – all questions are multiple choice and children record their answers on a separate answer sheet. |
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Ashlawn Modern Language Aptitude Test |
2025 Admissions |
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Registration |
30th May 2025 to 4th July 2025 TBC |
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Test Date |
Saturday 20th September 2025 TBC |
All sixth forms have are mixed gender, except Stratford Girl`s Grammar School, which indicates a misandric attitude. Boys already have fewer grammar school places than girls. This policy disadvantages boys further.
Qualifying scores in the Southern area are higher than the Eastern area and many children who qualify for places in the Eastern Area would have little chance of entry in the more elite Southern area schools. There are fewer grammar school places for boys than girls.
The Eastern priority circle (Area 1), has a radius of approximately 10 miles around Rugby, from the Water Tower.
Rugby and the surrounding areas (Area 2). These areas are outlined below.
Rugby plus the parishes of Dunchurch, Thurlaston, Leamington Hastings, Birdingbury, Grandborough, Wolfhamcote, Willoughby, Binley Woods, Brinklow, Brandon and Bretford, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Bubbenhall, Wolston, Church Lawford, Long Lawford, Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Princethorpe, Frankton, Marton, Bourton and Draycote, Churchover, Clifton-on-Dunsmore, Combe Fields, Cosford, Easenhall, Harborough Magna, Kings Newnham, Little Lawford, Monks Kirby, Newton and Biggin, Pailton, Stretton-under-Fosse, Wibtoft, Willey and Withybrook.
Overlap Area
Ryton-On-Dunsmore, Bubbenhall and Princethorpe are in both the Southern and Inner Eastern Areas.
For entry, schools expect families to move by 31st December. This changed after LSS unlawfully withdrew a grammar school place and unlawfully refused to allow an appeal and found at severe fault by the Local Government Ombudsman and an Independent appeals panel ordered the school to offer a place.
Automatic Qualifying Marks (AQM)
The Automatic Qualifying Mark is set by a Committee of Reference (a panel of headteachers and teachers appointed according to the terms of reference for East Warwickshire). The Heads of the area’s selective schools or their representatives will be members of the Area Committee. They may set an AQM that results in children out of area being offered places on offer day if there are not enough suitable candidates within area (as occurred in 2013-15).
The southern area is a catchement based highly selective area. On offer day, the highest scores above the AQM within the catchment area win places. If places are not filled, out of area children can be offered places.
The Eastern area is a dual catchment based selective area, allowing lower scores in area 1 to win places, at the expense of higher scoring children who happen to live in area 2. They have introduced lower scores for pupil premium children. This appears to constitute social engineering to ensure a diverse socio-economic group at the schools, as opposed to selecting children solely upon ability. If 11+ tests are tutor-proof, there is no logic to this stance.
From 2014 entry the weighting changed to 50% Verbal Reasoning, 25% Numeric Reasoning and 25% NVR.