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Birkdale School, Sheffield — 11+ entrance (ISEB Common Pre-Tests)

Birkdale School’s 11+ entrance test is built on the ISEB Common Pre-Test, taken online. It tests English, maths, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning.

Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 7 in September 2027: sat on Tuesday 1 December 2026.

Birkdale School · Co-educational independent school · SheffieldAdmissions (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
  • English
  • Reading
  • The last fortnight

Not covered

  • Verbal reasoning
  • Non-verbal reasoning
  • The test itself
  • Printable English papers

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. Tuesday 1 December 2026

    For Year 7 in September 2027, sat in Year 6. Registration closes 20 November 2026. Source
    Candidates sitting at another ISEB centre must finish by this date. Academic Scholarship assessment Tuesday 19 January 2027.

  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 Year 6, counted towards the exam.

  • Maths

    The Key Stage 2 objectives for Years 3 to 6, 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 6, 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.

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

Not covered

Verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and the test’s own format.

  • Verbal reasoning

    Remelia does not teach verbal reasoning.

  • Non-verbal reasoning

    Remelia does not teach non-verbal reasoning.

  • The test itself

    Remelia practises the content, not the ISEB Common Pre-Test’s own screens, papers or timings: the familiarisation materials, where there are any, show those.

  • Printable English papers

    The printable practice papers in the parents’ app are maths only.

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
ISEB Common Pre-Test. Source
How it is taken
Online. Source
What it tests
English, maths, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning. Source
The papers
ISEB Pre-Test English, multiple choice; ISEB Pre-Test Mathematics, multiple choice; ISEB Pre-Test Verbal Reasoning, multiple choice; ISEB Pre-Test Non-Verbal Reasoning, multiple choice. Source
Four tests, 2 hours 15 minutes in total; per-test timings not given here.
How places are decided
Offers to all ‘who have met the academic standard for entry’ on the Pre-Tests; the standard and scores are not published. Source
Practice and familiarisation
An online practice test. The practice materials (another website) Source Source
Interview
Not found on the pages read. 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. Your Admissions Journey — Birkdale School checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “register your child for the Common Pre-Tests with ISEB by the above date ... The Common Pre-Tests are online, adaptive tests.”

    “the formal offer of a place at Birkdale will be made to all those who have met the academic standard for entry. Please note that we do not provide details of candidate scores in the tests.”

    “Friday 20 November Closing date for 11+ Entrance Test, Scholarship/Bursary applications Tuesday 1 December Common Pre-Tests at Birkdale”

  2. ISEB Pre-Tests — for families — ISEB checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “a set of four multiple-choice, adaptive, online tests ... The tests cover English, mathematics, verbal reasoning (VR) and non-verbal reasoning (NVR) and will take 2 hours 15 minutes to complete.”

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