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Abbey Gate College — Senior School Entrance Examination (Year 7)

Abbey Gate College’s 11+ entrance test is set by GL Assessment (inferred from the pages, which do not name it outright), taken online and on paper. It tests verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, spatial reasoning, maths, a piece of writing, the test’s other sections and a written paper: writing.

Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 7 in September 2027: sat in January 2027.

Abbey Gate College · Co-educational independent school · ChesterAdmissions (the school’s website)

Checked against the sources below on 22 September 2026. Dates and arrangements change: the school’s own admissions page is always the final word.

How Remelia helps with this test

What Remelia covers, in full

Covered

  • Maths
  • Verbal reasoning
  • Non-verbal reasoning
  • The last fortnight

In part

  • The writing

Not covered

  • Spatial reasoning
  • The test’s other sections
  • A written paper: writing
  • The interview
  • The test itself

Each exam plan is dated from your child’s year group: Remelia works to the sitting for the September they start Year 7. For a school without a plan, choose “Not sure yet” and Remelia teaches the Key Stage 2 curriculum with no exam date.

Key dates

When it is sat.

The dates the school has published, in order. Where a day is not yet published, the guide says so.

  1. January 2027

    For Year 7 in September 2027, sat in Year 6. Source
    Exact January 2027 date not found on the site.

  2. January 2028 Inferred

    For Year 7 in September 2028, sat in Year 6. Inferred: the page does not give this date in so many words. Source

Remelia and this exam

What Remelia covers, and what it does not.

Choose the school when you set your child up, or later in Controls, and this is the plan.

What Remelia covers

Key Stage 2 maths to Year 6, and verbal and non-verbal reasoning, counted towards the exam; the writing, in part.

  • Maths

    The Key Stage 2 objectives for Years 3 to 6, in the order your child’s school teaches them, counted towards the exam.

  • Verbal reasoning

    21 of the question types in GL Assessment’s verbal reasoning familiarisation papers (letter and number series, codes, logic puzzles, word puzzles and word meanings), mixed into the sessions and counted towards the exam. The types a test sets can differ from year to year.

  • Non-verbal reasoning

    13 question types from the providers’ own sample material (shape series and grids, pairs, similarities, odd one out, codes, rotation, reflection, hidden shapes, folding and punching, and nets), each a drawing with five options, mixed into the sessions and counted towards the exam. The types a test sets can differ from year to year, and from provider to provider.

  • The writing In part

    Short timed pieces that a grown-up marks at home with ticks: one a fortnight from the spring of Year 4, one a week from the autumn of Year 5. They practise part of what the exam’s writing asks; they are not its paper, and they are not counted towards the exam.

  • The last fortnight

    In the last 14 days before the exam date the plan works to, sessions are shorter and nothing new is introduced. The plan works to January of Year 6, a month inferred from the pages; until the school publishes the day for your child’s year, that date is an estimate.

Not covered

Spatial reasoning, the test’s other sections, a written paper: writing, the interview and the test’s own format.

  • Spatial reasoning

    Remelia does not teach spatial reasoning.

  • The test’s other sections

    Not practised.

  • A written paper: writing

    Not practised.

  • The interview

    A conversation with the school, which an app cannot practise.

  • The test itself

    Remelia practises the content, not GL Assessment’s own screens, papers or timings: the familiarisation materials, where there are any, show those.

The exam

What the school says.

Each line links to the page it comes from. A line marked Inferred is read from the page, which does not say it in so many words; the note under it says how.

Who sets it Inferred
GL Assessment. Source
CAT4 — not named, but the four batteries (verbal, non-verbal, quantitative, spatial) are CAT4’s.
How it is taken
Online and on paper. Source
Reasoning tests digital; writing and maths on paper.
What it tests
Verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, spatial reasoning, maths, a piece of writing, the test’s other sections and a written paper: writing. Source Source
The papers
Standardised reasoning tests (verbal, non-verbal, quantitative, spatial), multiple choice; Writing, a written piece; Mathematics, written answers. Source
Timings not published; format of the maths and writing papers inferred from ‘completed in ink’.
How places are decided
Places offered in score order. If oversubscribed, places go by ability in the entrance assessments; references and/or interview break ties. References, reports and an interview are part of every application. Source
Practice and familiarisation
None published. Source
Interview
Yes. Source

Sources

Where every line comes from.

Every page our research read for this exam, with the date it was checked; under each, the words it quoted from it.

  1. Admissions Policy — Abbey Gate College checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Standardised, tests in verbal, non-verbal, quantitative, and spatial ability (completed digitally)”

    “b. Writing and mathematics assessments (completed in ink)”

    “Abbey Gate College does not release practice papers, but examinations are based on work covered in the Key Stage 2 curriculum”

    “c. Interview (in person)”

    “The Senior School Entrance Examination takes place in January, for entry into Year 7 the following September.”

  2. How to Apply — Abbey Gate College checked 22 September 2026

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