Specialist 11 Plus tutors in Birmingham, West Midlands prepare children for the GL Assessment exam format used by local grammar schools, including King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys. Compare rates and profiles, and enquire directly with no agency fees.
Birmingham's eight grammar schools, run under the King Edward VI Foundation, share a single entrance exam sat on one Saturday in September. Find a specialist tutor, compare rates, read profiles and enquire directly. No agency fees.
The shared test is provided by GL Assessment and consists of two papers of roughly 60 minutes each, divided into short individually timed sections covering English comprehension, verbal reasoning, mathematics and non-verbal/spatial reasoning. Registration runs from early May to late June of Year 5 through the West Midlands Grammar Schools website, and one sitting covers applications to all eight schools.
Birmingham's grammar school places are heavily contested relative to the size of the city's Year 6 cohort, making this one of the most competitive selective systems in the country. The Camp Hill schools typically require the highest scores, while several of the Foundation schools reserve a share of places for pupil premium children and apply catchment priority, which changes the effective threshold from school to school.
Registration deadline
Registration for the shared entrance test opens in early May and closes in late June of Year 5, via the West Midlands Grammar Schools website. The test is sat on a Saturday in mid-September of Year 6.
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All eight King Edward VI Foundation grammar schools share one entrance test. You register once between early May and late June of Year 5 via the West Midlands Grammar Schools website, and your child sits two GL Assessment papers on a Saturday in mid-September of Year 6. The papers are split into short timed sections covering English, verbal reasoning, maths and non-verbal/spatial reasoning.
The two King Edward VI Camp Hill schools in Kings Heath typically require the highest scores in the Foundation, drawing strong applicants from across Birmingham and the wider West Midlands. Effective thresholds at the other six schools vary with demand, catchment priority and pupil premium allocations, so the same score can succeed at one school and miss at another.
Several Foundation schools give priority to children living within defined catchment areas and reserve a proportion of places for pupil premium applicants, alongside places filled by score. The exact criteria differ school by school and are published in each school's admissions policy, so check the current documents when choosing which schools to name.
Most successful applicants start structured preparation in Year 4 or early Year 5, 12 to 18 months before the September test. The sectioned format rewards pace and accuracy across four different question types, so timed practice on each section matters as much as underlying knowledge. Registration closes in late June of Year 5, well before the test itself.
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