We tried the 11-plus test – and nobody got full marks

Published: 16 February 2017
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The eleven-plus is the examination required for students in the UK to enter grammar school after primary education.

The test consists of three sections: English, Maths, and Verbal Reasoning. Each school is responsible for its own weighting. The pass mark is between 121 and 160.

We asked our BI reporters a selection of questions from a sample eleven-plus test.

The questions were the following:

1. Which has the greater mass, 3 kgs of onions or 7 lbs of sugar?

2. ‘The carriage passed over a little bridge beneath which water rushed’. Which of the words here is a preposition?

a. The
b. Carriage
c. Little
d. Beneath

3. Which one of these words has the closest meaning to "expanse"?

a. Open
b. View
c. Area
d. Boundary

4.What types of words are these? Ponies, sheep, mountains, bushes.

a. Abstract nouns
b. Proper nouns
c. Common nouns
d. Collective nouns

5. Bridgetown, Barbados is four hours behind GMT. If a plane leaves London at 06:00 GMT, write the local time it lands in Bridgetown if the flight takes six hours.

6. Sam has 75 pens and he ties them into bundles of 8. How many pens does he have left over?

*Answers below

1. 7 lbs of sugar
2. Beneath
3. Area
4. Common nouns
5. 8am
6. Three

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