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Buckinghamshire Secondary Transfer Test (11+)

The 13 schools share one test: set by GL Assessment, taken on paper. It tests verbal reasoning, reading comprehension, spelling, punctuation and grammar, maths, non-verbal reasoning and spatial 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
  • Non-verbal reasoning
  • The last fortnight

Not covered

  • Spatial reasoning
  • 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. Thursday 10 September 2026

    For Year 7 in September 2027, sat in Year 6. Registration closes 2 June 2026. Source Source
    Practice Test 8 September 2026, Transfer Test 10 September 2026. Registration 1 May to 2 June 2026 (3pm); Bucks state-primary pupils are entered automatically. Some children tested at central venues may sit slightly later. Results 9 October 2026.

  2. September 2027

    For Year 7 in September 2028, sat in Year 6. Source
    Council gives ‘Early September 2027’ for the test and ‘May to June 2027’ for registration; 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 and non-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.

  • 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 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

Spatial reasoning and the test’s own format.

  • Spatial reasoning

    Remelia does not teach spatial reasoning.

  • 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

13 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
Answers on a separate multiple-choice answer sheet; sat in school (Bucks state primaries and Partner schools) or at a grammar school test centre.
What it tests
Verbal reasoning, reading comprehension, spelling, punctuation and grammar, maths, non-verbal reasoning and spatial reasoning. Source
The papers
Verbal skills (comprehension, technical English, verbal reasoning), 45 minutes, multiple choice, no calculator; Mathematics and non-verbal skills (incl. spatial reasoning), 45 minutes, multiple choice. Source
About 45 minutes each (60 minutes including introduction and examples). A shorter Practice Test (two papers of about 40 minutes, unmarked) is sat two days before.
How places are decided
A standardised score at or above a threshold (121). A score of at least 121 qualifies for a Buckinghamshire grammar school; places then go by each school’s own oversubscription criteria (catchment/priority area, distance). A Selection Review Panel can also deem a child qualified. Source
Practice and familiarisation
A familiarisation booklet. The practice materials (another website) Source
Interview Inferred
No. Source Source
The council describes only the two papers; no interview is mentioned for the qualifying test.
What has changed
No change of provider in the last three years: TBGS re-tendered test provision in 2024 and awarded it again to GL Education Group (contract concluded 13 June 2024). Test still sat at the start of Year 6 in September. 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. Aylesbury Grammar School — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 186”

  2. Grammar schools and Secondary Transfer Testing (11+) — Buckinghamshire Council checked 29 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Children who achieve a score of at least 121 in the test are considered qualified for a Buckinghamshire grammar school.”

  3. Aylesbury High School — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 189”

  4. Beaconsfield High School — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 186”

  5. Burnham Grammar School — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 180”

  6. Chesham Grammar School — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 186”

  7. Dr Challoner’s Grammar School — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 180”

  8. Dr Challoner’s High School — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 180”

  9. John Hampden Grammar School — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 180”

  10. Royal Latin School — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 180”

  11. Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 180”

  12. Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 150”

  13. The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 182”

  14. Wycombe High School — Find my child a school place, Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Admissions for 2027 entry Admission number (Year 7), September 2027 192”

  15. The Secondary Transfer Test — Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “The Secondary Transfer Test measures verbal, non-verbal and mathematical skills. Children sit two test papers, each about 60 minutes long, with a break between. ... The Secondary Transfer Test is produced by GL Assessment.”

  16. Provision of the Secondary Transfer Test and Test Administration Services — contract award notice (Find a Tender) checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Lot 1 Secondary Transfer Test Provision ... Date of conclusion of the contract 13 June 2024 ... Name and address of the contractor GL Education Group Ltd”

    “Date of conclusion of the contract 13 June 2024 ... Name and address of the contractor GL Education Group Ltd”

  17. Secondary Transfer Testing process — Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “There are two Secondary Transfer Test papers. All the questions are multiple-choice. One paper tests verbal skills including comprehension, technical English and verbal reasoning. The other tests mathematics and non-verbal skills including spatial reasoning. Each paper is about 45 minutes long (60 minutes including the introduction and examples).”

  18. Test dates for Secondary Transfer Test — Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “The Secondary Transfer Test dates for children due to move up to secondary school in September 2027 are 8 and 10 September 2026.”

  19. Timeline for 2028 entry — Buckinghamshire Council checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Early September 2027 Children who attend a state-funded Buckinghamshire primary school or Partner School will sit the Transfer Test in their school.”

  20. The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools (TBGS) is a company set up by the thirteen grammar schools in Buckinghamshire in order to manage and administer The Buckinghamshire Secondary Transfer Test.”

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