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Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School entrance examination

Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School’s 11+ entrance test is set by GL Assessment, taken on paper. It tests verbal reasoning, maths and English.

Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 7 in September 2028: the date is not yet published.

Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School · Co-educational grammar school · RossendaleAdmissions (the school’s website)

Checked against the sources below on 29 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
  • English
  • Reading
  • Verbal reasoning
  • The last fortnight

Not covered

  • The test itself
  • English papers in this test’s style

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. Saturday 26 September 2026

    For Year 7 in September 2027, sat in Year 6. Registration closes 14 September 2026. Source
    Saturday 26 September 2026; registration was open by September 2026 (opening date not given) and closes 12 noon 14 September 2026; access-arrangement requests preferably before June 2026; results mid-October.

  2. Not yet published

    For Year 7 in September 2028, sat in Year 6. The date is not on the pages read. 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 and English to the end of Year 5, and verbal reasoning, counted towards the exam.

  • Maths

    The Key Stage 2 objectives for Years 3 to 5, in the order your child’s school teaches them, counted towards the exam.

  • English

    Grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary questions most days, Years 3 to 5, counted towards the exam.

  • Reading

    From the autumn of Year 5, a weekly reading day: one unseen passage and 9 questions on it, from a bank of 130 passages.

  • 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.

  • 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 September of Year 6; until the school publishes the day for your child’s year, that date is an estimate.

Not covered

The test’s own format.

  • 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.

  • English papers in this test’s style

    The printable English practice papers in the parents’ app are in the style of the FSCE test’s multiple-choice paper, not GL Assessment’s own.

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
GL Assessment. Source
How it is taken Inferred
On paper. Source
GL papers sat on site; modified papers mentioned for access arrangements.
What it tests
Verbal reasoning, maths and English. Source
The papers
Verbal reasoning; Maths; English. Source
Three papers; timings and formats not published on the page.
How places are decided
Children must meet the ‘required standard’ (not published); if oversubscribed, looked-after first, then Area 1 primary pupils ranked by overall mark, siblings, then all others by mark. Source
Practice and familiarisation
Sample papers. The practice materials (another website) Source
Interview Inferred
No. Source
No interview in the arrangements.
What has changed Inferred
No change of provider announced on the admissions page read on 29 Sep 2026 (MM-868); the page does not give the provider history, so a change before 2023 cannot be ruled out from it. 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 to the Academy — Bacup & Rawtenstall Grammar School checked 29 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “The examination will consist of three papers: verbal reasoning, maths and English. Our entrance examination is provided by GL Assessment.”

    “12 noon on 14 September 2026. This will be the final date to register for the entrance examination.”

  2. Determined Admission Arrangements 2027 — Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “The published admission number is 180. ... All applicants who meet the required standard will be admitted if 180 or fewer apply. ... Children attending Area 1 primary schools ranked in order of overall entrance examination mark.”

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