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Trent College Year 7 entrance exam (CAT and English assessment)

Trent College’s 11+ entrance test is set by GL Assessment (inferred from the pages, which do not name it outright). It tests verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, spatial reasoning and English.

Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 7 in September 2027: sat in January 2027 (inferred).

Trent College · Co-educational independent school · NottinghamAdmissions (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

  • English
  • Reading
  • Verbal reasoning
  • Non-verbal reasoning
  • The last fortnight

Not covered

  • Spatial reasoning
  • The interview
  • 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. January 2027 Inferred

    For Year 7 in September 2027, sat in Year 6. Inferred: the page does not give this date in so many words. Source
    The page says the Year 7 entrance exam and interviews are “held in January each year”; Discovery Day in late November. No 2027 date given; applications October to March.

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 English to Year 6, and verbal and non-verbal reasoning, 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, the interview and the test’s own format.

  • Spatial reasoning

    Remelia does not teach spatial reasoning.

  • The interview

    A conversation with the school, which an app cannot practise.

  • 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 Inferred
GL Assessment. Source
A Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT; GL Assessment’s CAT4 is the usual one — the page does not name the publisher) and the school’s own English assessment.
How it is taken
Not found on the pages read. Source
What it tests
Verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, spatial reasoning and English. Source
The papers
Not found on the pages read: how long it is, how many papers and what kind of questions. Source
How places are decided
Holistic decision by the Head on interview, reference and assessment. Source
Practice and familiarisation
Nothing found on the pages read. Source
Interview
Yes. Source
1:1 entrance interview, in January for Year 7.

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. Admissions to Trent College | Trent College & The Elms checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Children applying to Trent will take a Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT) and an English Assessment. For Year 7 entry this is held in January each year.”

    “Children applying to join Year 7 will be invited to a group “Discovery Day”, usually held in late November.”

    “For Year 7 entry the interviews are held in January each year.”

    “The Head of Trent College takes a holistic view of each child’s application, using all the information gathered from the interview, reference and assessment to make a final decision on the offer of a pla”

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