St Bernard’s Catholic Grammar School

The Slough 11 Plus exam consists of two papers, taken on the same day, each 50 to 60 minutes in duration and testing three areas – verbal, numerical and non-verbal reasoning. All questions on both papers are multiple choice and pupils indicate their answers on a separate answer sheet.

A Familiarisation booklet, produced by the CEM, contains information about the content of the tests, some advice about taking the tests and a few sample questions. You can see the most recent booklet here >

• You need to register your child to take the Slough Consortium 11 Plus test. Online registration for the September 2020 exam opened on Friday 1st May 2020 on the website of the Slough Consortium of Grammar Schools and closed at midnight on Sunday 14th June 2020.
• The sole purpose of registration is to enable your son or daughter to sit the 11 Plus exam. The consortium will order one set of exam papers for them, therefore ensure that you complete the registration process once only.
• The registration dates for the 2021 exam have yet to be announced.

By scoring 111 or more, your child will be eligible for consideration for a place at any Slough grammar school named on your Local Authority’s Common Application Form (CAF). However, this does not guarantee a place as the schools may be oversubscribed. Each school’s admissions policy will describe how places are allocated in the event of oversubscription.

The results for the 2020 Slough 11 Plus exam were released on 20th November 2020.  The results date for the 2021 Slough 11 Plus exam has not been announced (the specific date will not be given in advance by the Slough Consortium of Grammar Schools).

• Due to the extraordinary circumstances this year, you needed to submit your child’s secondary school application before you received their 11 Plus exam results.  If you wished your child to be considered for entry to any of the four Slough grammar schools, you were required to name the relevant school or schools on the Common Application Form (CAF).
• You had until the end of Saturday 31st October 2020 to submit your Common Application Form to your Local Authority.
• School places for September 2021 will be confirmed on 1st March 2021.
• In whichever year you are applying, you can name up to 6 schools on your CAF.
• If you live outside Slough, you must apply through your own Local Authority – even if your child currently attends a Slough primary school.