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Regional Guides
Check grammar school admissions, 11+ test formats and registration guidance for your area. Follow current school and council sources for dates.
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Grammar Schools in the UK: Find Your Area and Its Entrance Test
A region-by-region guide to where the UK grammar schools are, which entrance test each area uses, what it tests, and when registration opens and closes. Includes the deadline most parents miss.
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Warwickshire 11 Plus and Grammar School EntryA source-led guide to the Warwickshire 11+: the shared West Midlands test, the six grammar schools, the two separate deadlines and how places are really decided. | Read12 min | Published |
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The Medway Test Explained for ParentsA current, source-led guide to the Medway Test: three papers, no writing task, how the x2/x2/x1 weighting works, the published minimum scores, and what out-of-area families need to know. | Read14 min | Published |
Wirral Grammar Schools and the Wirral Selection TestWirral has six grammar schools but two entirely separate entrance routes, and the council assessment is no longer a GL Assessment paper. Here is the current cycle, milestone by milestone. | Read14 min | Published |
Manchester and Trafford Grammar Schools and the 11 PlusThere are no state grammar schools in the City of Manchester: all seven sit in Trafford, and they run three different entrance tests. Here is which school uses which test, what is on each paper, and the deadlines that decide whether your child sits it at all. | Read13 min | Published |
11 Plus Exam Dates and Registration Deadlines by RegionA maintained guide to 11 plus exam dates, registration deadlines and results days across Kent, Essex, London, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire, with a triage block that tells you which dates are still live for you. | Read14 min | Published |
The 11 Plus in London: Consortium Tests and Sutton SETA dated, source-led walkthrough of how the London 11 plus actually resolves into an offer: borough by borough, test by test, from May registration to March national offer day. | Read13 min | Published |
The Buckinghamshire Secondary Transfer Test: A Parent GuideA chronological guide to the Buckinghamshire 11+, from automatic entry and the withdrawal deadline through to results day, the Selection Review and the honest odds on appeal. | Read14 min | Published |
The Birmingham and West Midlands 11 Plus ExplainedA dated, source-linked guide to the eight grammar schools in Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield: the two-stage application, the 205 and 224 scores, and why catchment often matters more than the test result. | Read15 min | Published |
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