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What is Included in each GL Mock Exam?

GL Assessment Bucks Mocks

Number of Tests and Subjects:

  • Test 1 (45 mins) – divided into two sections: English (comprehension, spelling, punctuation, grammar) and Verbal Reasoning
  • Test 2 (45 mins) – divided into two sections: Maths and Non-Verbal and Spatial Reasoning

In the online version of this mock, the two sections in Test 1 and Test 2 will appear as two separate mini-tests so that they can be separately timed online, as with the real paper-based exam. The two mini-tests should therefore be attempted back to back without any break. Each paper will have 50% weighting.

Format

Multiple choice.

GL Assessment Bucks Mocks

Number of Tests and Subjects:

  • There will be one, two or three tests as per the title of the mock, each of either 45 or 50 minutes

In the online version of this mock, the two sections in Test 1 and Test 2 will appear as two separate mini-tests so that they can be separately timed online, as with the real paper-based exam. The two mini-tests should therefore be attempted back to back without any break. Each paper will have 50% weighting.

Format

Multiple choice.

Feedback Reports

  • In-person mocks: reports usually issued on the same day (usually within 5 hours).
  • Online mocks: reports usually issued within 1-3 hours

There will be a report for each test in a mock.

Where there are in-person sittings, the comparison data will be available for the cohort for the session your child attends, as well as the overall cohort including all other children who attempted the same mock.

  • Percentage score for each test
  • Percentile score for each test
  • Ranking for each test
  • High, low and average scores of the cohort
  • Access to all skipped or incorrect questions and answers
  • For skipped or incorrect questions, the percentage of students who also skipped or got the question wrong

For all tests within the mock session combined:

  • Percentage score for each test
  • Percentile score for each test
  • Ranking for each test
  • High, low and average scores of the cohort
  • Access to all skipped or incorrect questions and answers
  • For skipped or incorrect questions, the percentage of students who also skipped or got the question wrong

Review Session (where applicable)

Some of our in-person sessions for the CEM mocks will have Review Sessions immediately following the mock exam. Our Review Sessions are led by our experienced teachers who will go through the most difficult questions in each paper. They will also provide exam techniques and tips. The reviews are professionally prepared with animated PowerPoint slides illustrating step-by-step workings, as well as animation software providing a 3-dimensional visual display of solutions to non-verbal reasoning questions. Review Sessions usually take just over 1 hour. Your child may bring a notebook in order to make any notes during the review if required.

Schools/Regions that use the GL Assessment Test

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About GL Assessment

GL Assessment have been the creators and developers of the 11 Plus exams for the vast majority of grammar and independent schools in the UK during the last 25 years. Their popularity started to reduce from 2012 as their exams became too predictable and easy to prepare for.

GL Assessment exams can be standard format (written) or multiple choice where the answers are marked on a separate answer sheet and then computer marked by OCR software.

The exams are created from GL Assessment Question Bank comprising many thousands of exam level questions. This question bank is continually being expanded, introducing more varied question styles.

In the past, the GL papers have been single subject and typically 45 or 50 minutes each. They are now more varied in format and can be mixed papers similar to the CEM. They are also changeable from year to year.

Weighting Per Subject

Each subject may have a different weighting based on the requirements of the school, which commissions their exam. Where Maths and English are tested, the subjects are commonly weighted as 50% each, similarly where the exam is purely Verbal Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning.

Where three or four subjects are tested, the weighting can vary.

Age Standardisation

Standardisation is a statistical process that is designed to

  1. To give equal value to the results of each test, regardless of the number of questions in the test and the time allowed take account of two factors:
  2. Take account of children’s ages when they sit the exam to ensure fairness, and therefore avoid unfair advantage to older children.

The raw scores of GL exams are age standardised to provide a single combined score. This means that two children born in different months but with exactly the same raw percentage score will have different age standardised scores.