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Dorset Consortium of Grammar Schools 11+ (Bournemouth and Poole)

The 4 schools share one test: set by GL Assessment, taken on paper. It tests maths, English and verbal reasoning.

Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 7 in September 2028: sat in September 2027.

Checked against the sources below on 29 September 2026. Dates and arrangements change: the schools’ own admissions pages are 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 schools have 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 4 September 2026. Source Source
    Saturday 26 September 2026 at the school the child registered with. On-time registration opened 13 April 2026 and closed noon 4 September 2026. Information packs posted 18 September 2026. Results 16 October 2026. Late registration 7 September 2026 to noon 29 January 2027; late test 23 February 2027.

  2. September 2027

    For Year 7 in September 2028, sat in Year 6. Source
    First sitting under Quest; Quest gives exam date September 2027 and registration opening April 2027; exact dates not yet published.

Remelia and this exam

What Remelia covers, and what it does not.

Choose any of these schools 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 schools publish 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 schools

Four schools, one test.

Each school takes its own applications and decides its own offers. Places are as each school’s page gives them, where it does.

The exam

What the schools say.

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 Source
How it is taken
On paper. Source
What it tests
Maths, English and verbal reasoning. Source Source
The papers
Mathematics, 50 minutes, multiple choice; English, 45 minutes, multiple choice; Verbal Reasoning, 50 minutes, multiple choice. Source Source
How places are decided
A pass mark. Aggregate of the three age-standardised scores decides whether the child meets the required standard (Group A) or not (Group B); the mark is not published. Each school then ranks eligible applicants by its own oversubscription criteria (e.g. Poole Grammar: priority groups and area, in rank order of test score). Source
Practice and familiarisation
Sample papers and an online practice test. The practice materials (another website) Source Source Source
Interview Inferred
No. Source
Eligibility by the three test scores only.
What has changed
The consortium moves from GL Assessment to Quest Assessments from the September 2027 sitting (2028 entry). Quest keeps maths, English and verbal reasoning as three papers of 40 minutes each (down from 45–50), with no content beyond the Year 5 National Curriculum. Source Source 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. Bournemouth School Year 7 Prospectus 2027 checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Students must pass our entrance tests to join the school. There are 180 places available in Year 7.”

  2. Joining Year 7 in September — Bournemouth School checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “The entrance tests will be provided by GL Assessment in mathematics, English and verbal reasoning (as in previous years). ... the consortium has decided to change the entrance test provider to Quest Assessments after September 2027.”

    “These three papers are multiple choice; students mark their answers on a pre-printed sheet. ... The entrance tests take place for all schools in the consortium on the same date, in person, at one of the consortium schools.”

    “The Dorset Consortium of Grammar Schools (Bournemouth School, Bournemouth School for Girls, Parkstone Grammar School and Poole Grammar School) was formed a number of years ago to enable children ... to be considered without having to sit more than one set of entrance tests.”

  3. Bournemouth School for Girls Admissions Policy for 2027 Entry checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “The Published Admission Number for Year 7 in September 2027 is 180.”

  4. Admissions — Bournemouth School for Girls checked 22 September 2026
  5. Parkstone Grammar School Admissions Policy for Entry September 2027 checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “The school’s Published Admission Number for Year 7 for September 2027 is 192.”

  6. Admissions — Parkstone Grammar School checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “From September 2027 (for 2028 Entry), our 11+ assessments will be provided by Quest Assessments.”

  7. Poole Grammar School Admissions Policy, September 2027 entry checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “The published admission number for September 2027 is 180 for Year 7 and 30 for Year 12.”

    “with an aggregate score of the three tests determining whether the boy is of the required standard. The scores for the entrance tests are adjusted (or ‘standardised’) according to age. ... boys will be placed in two groups, Group A - meets the required standard, or Group B - does not meet”

  8. Admissions to Year 7 — Poole Grammar School checked 29 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “All four BCP grammar schools use the same entrance tests, provided by GL Assessment: MATHEMATICS Duration: 50 minutes ... ENGLISH Duration: 45 minutes ... VERBAL REASONING Duration: 50 minutes”

    “All four BCP grammar schools use the same entrance tests, provided by GL Assessment ... From September 2027 (for 2028 entry), our 11+ assessments will be provided by Quest Assessments.”

  9. 11plus.gl-assessment.co.uk checked 22 September 2026
  10. Dorset Consortium 11+ Assessment — Quest Assessments checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Three papers, sat in the same session with a short supervised break. Each paper lasts 40 minutes. Paper One Maths Paper Two English Paper Three Verbal reasoning”

    “Registration opens: April 2027 Exam date: September 2027 Secondary school application deadline: Sunday 31 October 2027 National offers day: Wednesday 1 March 2028”

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