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In seeking one-to-one tuition we recognise that you have already decided that you want to:
★ Boost Confidence and Achievement

★ Secure a Grammar School place through the Kent or Medway 11+ Tests

How is the Kent Test scored ?

All scored questions are multiple choice, with five potential answers offered.   The alternatives are designed to mislead, rewarding candidates who can quickly confirm the correct option.   There is one mark for each question, adding up to a total "raw" score for each scored element.

Raw scores are standardised for age using a statistical process (as the oldest person in year 5 could be almost 10% older than the youngest person) and indexed from 69-141, with the index of 100 representing the mean average for candidates of the current year's Kent Test.

The maximum standardised score in each element is 141, giving a maximum aggregated score of 423 (3x141=423).

Candidates are ranked in order of aggregate standardised score and a line is drawn under the top 21-23% of Kent Test candidates.

This determines the headline threshold score.   Dividing by 3 gives the standardised threshold for each element (these are sometimes manually adjusted).   

In 2022, the aggregate standardised score threshold was 332, but the threshold for each element was 108

In 2021, the aggregate standardised score threshold was 332, but the threshold for each element was 109

In 2020, the aggregate standardised score threshold was 332, but the threshold for each element was 108

In 2019, the aggregate standardised score threshold was 330, and the threshold for each element was 110

Candidates who score above the minimum threshold in each of the elements AND the aggregate threshold are automaticallly assessed as eligible to apply for a Grammar School place in Kent schools.

Approximately 2-4% are added following a Headteachers Review Panel for borderline outcomes.

Candidates must reach or exceed a minimum threshold score in each of the above scored elements, AND must reach or exceed an aggregated score which is normally the sum of the minimum thresholds.  Thus, relative strength in one of the elements does not compensate for a relative weakness in another, and the Kent Test tends to select competent "all-rounders".

English (Comprehension and SPaG)

Multiple Choice

This involves reading a passage and answering questions on it.   Some answers can be found by 'scanning' the text, some answers must be inferred by 'reading between the lines'.

The text will include some advanced vocabulary.

In addition, there will be spelling definition and grammar questions, involving lesser known words, and sentences in which to spot mistakes in spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Mathematics

Multiple Choice

Questions scope basic Numeracy (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division), Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Ratios, Shapes and Space, Units of Measure, Geometry, Chance and Probability, Graphs and Charts, and rudimentary Algebra.

Multiple choice alternative answers are designed to exploit common mistakes and misunderstandings.

Verbal Reasoning

Multiple Choice

Making appropriate choices for spelling and grammar and understanding less common vocabulary.

Recognising and differentiating between "parts of speech" (grammatical word-types):

noun types, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, articles/determiners, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions.

Making asociations between groups of words, synonyms and antonyms.

Using reasoning to detect patterns in letter and number sequences plus some coding and decoding problem solving.

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Non-Verbal Reasoning

Multiple Choice

Use reasoning to

• detect congruency, sequences and anomalies in pictures and diagrams
• consider patterns, shapes, lines and curves
• consider reflections, rotations, enlargements and translations

• Similarities/Dissimilarities
• Missing item in a sequence
• Odd one out
• Complete a Matrix
  

Spatial Reasoning

Multiple Choice

A discrete section within Non-Verbal Reasoning.

Spotting shapes concealed in other 2D and 3D shapes.

Use reasoning to visualise folded and unfolded nets of shapes

Extended Writing

The extended writing exercise does not form part of the main score, but is used as a "tie-breaker" when considering bordeline scores in a Headteacher's Panel Review

This changes each year, but could be: writing a story from a prompt; writing a journal; writing a report; writing a formal letter; writing a speech; or writing a newspaper or magazine article.

Candidates are expected to write with the appropropriate purpose - e.g. writing to describe, writing to persuade, writing to apologise, writing to inform.

Candidates will be expected to be able to write engagingly with correct and appropriate spelling, punctuation and grammar, in the style requested and demonstrating a command of sophisticated vocabulary

Kent Test Tuition

Kent Test Tuition

Kent Test Tuition

Kent Test Tuition

Kent Test Tuition