https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides Guides to the 11+ written by a practising tutor, with every figure sourced and every worked example our own. en-GB Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/kent-test-1340-children https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/kent-test-1340-children Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT Kent County Council’s own 2025 scores report shows at least 1,340 children who cleared the 332 total and were assessed for high school anyway. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/when-to-start-11-plus-preparation https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/when-to-start-11-plus-preparation Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT A practising tutor’s answer on when 11+ preparation should start: what Year 3 and Year 4 are really for, and why the work that counts begins in Year 5. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/which-11-plus-test-will-my-child-sit https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/which-11-plus-test-will-my-child-sit Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT GL Assessment, CSSE, FSCE, Quest or a school’s own paper: which 11+ test each grammar school really sets, why CEM is no longer the answer, and how to check. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/11-plus-results-day-waiting-lists-appeals https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/11-plus-results-day-waiting-lists-appeals Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT What follows an 11+ result: the statutory dates, how a waiting list is re-ranked, and appeal figures from 44 schools’ own Freedom of Information replies. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/the-kent-test https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/the-kent-test Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT What the Kent Test contains, when it is sat, the score Kent County Council asks for, and what happens between results day and a school place. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/verbal-reasoning-question-types https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/verbal-reasoning-question-types Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT The verbal reasoning question types an 11+ paper can set, with one worked example each: the question, the wrong route children take, and the answer. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/11-plus-comprehension-technique https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/11-plus-comprehension-technique Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT How long the reading should take, where a comprehension paper’s marks actually sit, and two worked questions: one literal, one inference. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/11-plus-creative-writing https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/11-plus-creative-writing Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT Two answers to the same writing task, marked line by line against a school’s own published scheme, plus which schools set a writing paper at all. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/sutton-set-and-super-selectives https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/sutton-set-and-super-selectives Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT Six Sutton schools share one morning paper, and at five of them it only decides who is invited back. The dates, the format, and what qualifying does not buy. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/csse-essex-11-plus https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/csse-essex-11-plus Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT The Essex consortium writes its own English and maths papers, and one sitting reaches all ten schools. What that means for registering, scoring and applying. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/grammar-school-catchment-and-distance https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/grammar-school-catchment-and-distance Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT Which grammar schools have a catchment area, what a priority area and a last distance offered each really do to your place in the queue, and moving house. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/kent-test-score-curve https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/kent-test-score-curve Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT Kent County Council’s own 2025 scores report, re-derived: the middle half of grammar-assessed children scored 349 to 384, and the middle was 365. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/pass-mark-qualifying-score-cut-off https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/pass-mark-qualifying-score-cut-off Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT Three different numbers get called the 11+ pass mark. What a qualifying score, a published cut-off and a lowest admitted score each actually mean. https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/standardised-age-scores-explained https://www.plusprogress.co.uk/guides/standardised-age-scores-explained Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMT A standardised age score compares your child with everyone who sat the same paper, adjusted for age. Here is what a score of 121 does and does not tell you.