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Shrewsbury High School (GDST) — Senior School Entrance Assessment (Year 7)

Shrewsbury High School’s 11+ entrance test is set by GL Assessment, taken online and on paper. It tests verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, maths, spatial reasoning and English.

Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 7 in September 2027: sat on Saturday 16 January 2027.

Shrewsbury High School · Co-educational independent school · ShropshireAdmissions (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
  • 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 school has published, in order. Where a day is not yet published, the guide says so.

  1. Saturday 16 January 2027

    For Year 7 in September 2027, sat in Year 6. Source

  2. January 2028 Inferred

    For Year 7 in September 2028, sat in Year 6. Inferred: the page does not give this date in so many words. 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, and verbal and non-verbal reasoning, 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.

  • 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 January of Year 6, a month inferred from the pages; until the school publishes 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 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
Online and on paper. Source
Online CAT4 plus short Maths and English papers (medium of the papers not stated).
What it tests
Verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, maths, spatial reasoning and English. Source
The papers
CAT4 (online), multiple choice; Maths (short paper); English (short paper). Source
Timings not published.
How places are decided
Mandatory for all senior applicants; used to award academic scholarships and to identify strengths and support needs. After taster days and application; no pass mark published. Source
Practice and familiarisation
None published. 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. Joining Seniors — Shrewsbury High School checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Senior School Entrance Assessment Saturday 16th January 2027 All students applying for a place in our senior school (at whatever time of year) are required to sit an entrance assessment. For those registering to join us into the senior school, candidates will be invited in to sit the online CAT4 assessment, and for year 7 applicants, a short Maths and English paper. There is no revision required for the entrance assessment.”

    “Whilst we will use the academic assessment to award academic scholarship awards, the assessment is very useful to see where your child’s strengths and weaknesses lie”

    “There is no revision required for the entrance assessment.”

    “Senior School Entrance Assessment Saturday 16th January 2027”

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