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Ripon Grammar School 11+ entrance test

Ripon Grammar School’s 11+ entrance test is set by GL Assessment, taken on paper. It tests English, reading comprehension, spelling, punctuation and grammar, verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and maths.

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

Ripon Grammar School · Co-educational grammar school · RiponAdmissions (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
  • Non-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 12 September 2026

    For Year 7 in September 2027, sat in Year 6. Registration closes 30 June 2026. Source
    Saturday 12 September 2026 at Ripon Grammar School; online registration form opened 30 April 2026, registration closed 30 June 2026; results mid-October 2026.

  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 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 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 Source
How it is taken Inferred
On paper. Source
GL papers sat at Ripon Grammar School; all questions multiple choice.
What it tests
English, reading comprehension, spelling, punctuation and grammar, verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and maths. Source
The papers
Verbal Skills, 45 minutes, multiple choice; Non-Verbal Reasoning with Mathematics, 45 minutes, multiple choice. Source
Verbal Skills: English 25 min (reading passage, spelling and grammar, 26 questions) + verbal reasoning 20 min (32 questions). NVR with maths: two 10-minute NVR sections of 20 questions + maths about 25 questions in 25 minutes. KS2 content to end of Year 5.
How places are decided
Catchment or priority area first, then the score. Children must meet the ‘required standard’; a fixed percentage of places go to catchment-area children, boarding places reserved, then out-of-catchment qualifiers. Cut-off not published on the pages read. Source Source
Practice and familiarisation
A familiarisation booklet and an online practice test. The practice materials (another website) Source Source
Interview Inferred
No. Source
Not mentioned for day places.
What has changed
From the September 2026 sitting (2027 entry) the GL papers changed: a Verbal Skills paper (KS2 reading comprehension, spelling/grammar + verbal reasoning) replaces the pure verbal reasoning paper, and an NVR-with-maths paper replaces the pure NVR paper. GL remains the provider. 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. Main School Admissions — Ripon Grammar School checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “The maximum number of students admitted at Year 7 each September is 117, of which 14 places are reserved for boarders. ... The test provider is GL assessment. A fixed percentage of the school’s catchment area are offered a place in addition to those reserved for boarding. ... Any unallocated places are then offered to those students who live out of catchment and who have attained the required standard.”

  2. Selective schools — North Yorkshire Council checked 29 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “If your child is transferring from primary to secondary school in September 2027, the entrance test will be held on Saturday 12 September 2026 at Ripon Grammar School. ... 30 June 2026 Deadline to register for the entrance test. ... Testing until September 2026 There will be two tests: A Verbal Reasoning (VR) test, lasting 50 minutes ... A Non-Verbal Reasoning (NVR) test”

    “We are only responsible for organising entrance tests for Ripon Grammar School. ... For testing in September 2026, the 11 plus tests will consist of a verbal skills test and a non-verbal reasoning with mathematics test ... English (25 minutes) ... Verbal Reasoning (20 minutes) ... two non-verbal reasoning sections of 20 questions in each section - 10 minutes per section ... the mathematics section has approximately 25 questions (25 minutes) ... The test material will continue to be provided and”

    “The test material will continue to be provided and marked by GL Assessment.”

    “If your child is transferring from primary to secondary school in September 2027, the entrance test will be held on Saturday 12 September 2026 at Ripon Grammar School. 30 April 2026 Online entrance test registration form opens. 30 June 2026 Deadline to register for the entrance test.”

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