Exam guide Four schools
The 4 schools share one test: set by Quest Assessments, taken on paper. It tests verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and maths.
Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 7 in September 2027: sat on Tuesday 15 September 2026.
Checked against the sources below on 22 September 2026. Dates and arrangements change: the schools’ own admissions pages are always the final word.
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
The dates the schools have published, in order. Where a day is not yet published, the guide says so.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
For Year 7 in September 2027, sat in Year 6. Registration closes 1 June 2026. Source Source Source
Tuesday 15 September 2026. Assessment request form available online from 1 May 2026 (WGSG); Wirral Council gives the registration close as 12 noon 1 June 2026, the Quest pack says Sunday 31 May 2026. Venues notified by end of August. Results mid-October (Council page: sent before 31 October).
September 2027
For Year 7 in September 2028, sat in Year 6. Source
WGSG’s dates table: apply 1-31 May 2027, sit September 2027 for September 2028 entry; exact day not published.
Remelia and this exam
Choose any of these schools when you set your child up, or later in Controls, and this is the plan.
Key Stage 2 maths to the end of Year 5, counted towards the exam.
The Key Stage 2 objectives for Years 3 to 5, in the order your child’s school teaches them, counted towards the exam.
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.
Verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and the test’s own format.
Remelia does not teach verbal reasoning.
Remelia does not teach non-verbal reasoning.
Remelia practises the content, not Quest Assessments’ own screens, papers or timings: the familiarisation materials, where there are any, show those.
The schools
Each school takes its own applications and decides its own offers. Places are as each school’s page gives them, where it does.
Boys’ grammar school · Wirral
210 placesas the school’s page gives them Source
Girls’ grammar school · Wirral
Places not published
Boys’ grammar school · Wirral
170 placesas the school’s page gives them Source
Girls’ grammar school · Wirral
180 placesas the school’s page gives them Source
The exam
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.
Sources
Every page our research read for this exam, with the date it was checked; under each, the words it quoted from it.
“All of the Wirral Grammar Schools use Quest Assessments for the 11+ exam.”
“The planned admissions number for Year 7 for the year commencing 1st September 2027 will be 210. ... The Governors have agreed with Wirral Local Authority that the officers of the Local Authority will administer the process of selection”
“The published admission number for Year 7 is 180 in September 2026.”
“Our 11+ assessments are provided by Quest Assessments.”
“The school plans to admit 170 Students. Only Students who attain the required standard in the arrangements for selection by reference to ability and aptitude will be eligible to be considered for admission to the school.”
“An Assessment Request Form will need to be completed and the deadline is 31 May of Year 5. The form is available from 1 May on-line at www.wirral.gov.uk/schooladmissions”
“The published admission number for year 7 is 180 in September 2027. ... The two test scores are then added together Pupils who achieve a score higher than the required score will be deemed to have achieved the grammar school standard.”
“Children who want to attend a non‑Catholic grammar school in Wirral must take an assessment. Registration for the assessment closed at 12 noon on 1 June 2026. ... The assessment has two papers taken on the same day. The assessment will be provided by Quest Assessments. It will take place on Tuesday 15 September 2026. The papers include questions on: verbal reasoning non‑verbal reasoning mathematics”
“Registration closes Sunday 31st May 2026 Test date Tuesday 15th September 2026 ... Paper one: assesses verbal reasoning - Paper two: assesses mathematics and non verbal reasoning ... Each paper will last approximately 50 minutes. ... sample questions so your child can become familiar with the question format and filling in an OMR answer sheet.”
“Your child will sit two papers: Paper one: assesses verbal reasoning Paper two: assesses mathematics and non-verbal reasoning ... Each paper approximately 50 minutes. ... No phones, smart watches, calculators, or electronic devices are allowed.”
“The non-faith Wirral grammar schools (West Kirby Grammar School, Wirral Grammar School for Girls, Wirral Grammar School for Boys, Calday Grange Grammar School) ... have moved to a new test provider ... for this first year, we have taken the decision to retain the same overall style and format of the test, including the areas assessed and their relative weightings ... testing at Upton Hall School FCJ or St Anselm’s College are separate from this.”
Remelia is not affiliated with these schools or the test providers. All schools and exams
On the first day, a starting check finds where your child is. Choose the schools at set-up, or later in Controls, and the plan works towards this exam.
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