Are you keen for your child getting into Greenshaw High School?
Greenshaw High School select students based on the Selective Eligibility Test (SET). There are 60 places offered on the basis of the SET test. If your child didn’t score a pass mark in SET, they might be still eligible to get a place in Greenshaw School, on the basis of the other 6 criteria. For more details, please visit the school website admissions criteria section.
Selective Eligibility Test (SET) consists of two core subjects Maths and English; Both papers are for 45 minutes and multiple-choice papers. There is no test on verbal reasoning or non-verbal reasoning.
Currently, Greenshaw High School 11 plus past papers are not available on the school website but here are a couple of free 11 plus past papers with solutions that will help your child to prepare for the Greenshaw High School entrance exam.
Read more about school information: Greenshaw High School 11 Plus (11+) Exam Complete Guide 2020.
Exam Dates:
Selective Eligibility Test: Tuesday 14th September 2021.
How much competition is there for Greenshaw High School Entrance Exam?
The School receives approximately 620 applicants for 60 places through the Selective Eligibility Test for year 7. This shows that the tentative ratio of 10 candidates applies for a single place offering a ratio of 10:1.
After taking a look at all statistical information, Greenshaw High School is taking only the top 10 to 11% of students who have applied for 11 plus entrance test.
Additional information about the entrance test / Greenshaw High School 11 plus entrance test format is mentioned in an earlier section of the Greenshaw High School entrance exam.
We advise parents, a rigorous preparation on a variety of Maths questions, and comprehension and creative writing are required.
Outstanding A-Levels and GCSE results
A-Levels 2018/19:
- 21% of grades at A*/A
- 49% of the grades A*/B
- 75% of the grades A*-/C
GCSEs 2018/19:
- Including Maths and English, 77% of students would have achieved 5 GCSE passes.
- One in three students achieved at least a grade 7.
Our advice to parents to prepare for the 11 Plus entrance exam for Greenshaw High School?
We would like to advise the parents that they should start the preparation early from year 3. In Year 3 the parents can build foundation skills; in year 4 parents can work on building more advanced skills in Maths and English. In year 5 the student must practise plenty of paper and learn time management to complete the papers in a given time frame.
We suggest that parents should get an experienced tutor to teach the 11 Plus syllabus, as the competition is too high and without tutoring it very difficult to get a place in the school. We have many courses to prepare your child in all four subjects like Maths, English, Verbal reasoning and nonverbal reasoning. Working in small groups will be advantageous to get a feel of competition for your child. Our tutors are very encouraging and motivating to build the child’s confidence.
In our courses we practice many past papers, our tutors start the timer in the class and test the child under timed condition. Parents can do the same thing at home and monitor the child’s performance under timed conditions which are extremely important for getting selected in the Greenshaw High School.
We strongly recommend the parents must practice a variety of resources. We would like to give a link to some of our best 11 Plus Maths Past papers and 11 Plus English Past papers which is an excellent resource to practice.
- 11 Plus Maths Past Papers with Detailed Answers (For Maths)
- 11 Plus English Past Papers with Detailed Answers (For English)
Also, there are many past papers, as given on the above links along with solutions on our website.
Top mathematicians write these solutions. We recommend that students use 11 Plus Past Papers with solutions to have more practice for a variety of questions that may come in their examination.
- 11+ Maths Papers with Detailed Answers
- 11+ Maths Topic Wise Questions
- 11+ English Practice Papers
- 11+ Verbal Reasoning Practice Papers
- 11+ Non-Verbal Reasoning Practice Papers
- 11+ SET style practice Papers
- 11+ Online Mock Exams
The parents can browse at the end of each 11 plus exam paper; the difficulty level of scholarship problems is very high. Practising these scholarship questions we have noticed that it gives a boost to a child’s independent thinking and logical approach to tackle any question. The students are not scared to see the language of the exam question when it appears in the actual 11 plus entrance exam in Greenshaw High School.
Our top oxford tutors have solved plenty of 11 plus English past papers. It includes answers for English comprehension and model answers for creative writing. Each English comprehension answer is provided with a hint for the student to help them out to think about how the answer is derived. Our tutors have also provided every answer with a line number and reference number from the comprehension.
We strongly recommend parents that the children who are appearing for Greenshaw High School 11 Plus exam must be exposed to different 11 Plus Past Papers, which contains more logical, problem-solving type of questions and the language of the mathematical problems must be unique.
Parents are advised to print the papers from our recommended practice paper links and can give them to the student ensuring the student complete the paper under timed and exam conditions.
- The parents can come back to the website to mark the answers.
- Solving a variety of papers helps students to learn time management.
- Please see the below links for our highly recommended resources.
- Our top mathematician tutor team has put enormous efforts to write detailed solutions to each question.
If you as a parent know what your child’s weak area is our system will show you all question segregated by topic, and you can practice them.
How to revise for Greenshaw High School?
It is important to revise Maths topics frequently. The student should remember the Geometry formulae.
The parents can go over with their children to revise difficult topics like
- Algebra
- Probability
- Simultaneous equations
- Fractions Decimals Percentages, Ratio and Proportion
Revision on Vocabulary is a must. Parents can prepare the spreadsheet of difficult words and revise it with their children.
For Greenshaw High School 11 plus entrance exam, the below revision schedule of 11 plus past papers is very helpful to clear the Greenshaw School entrance exam.
Parents can note down difficult questions from these papers and revise them again just before the exam.
Please download this spreadsheet to your desktop and update the fields provided in this spreadsheet. This will help you to track your child's progress.
You can now access our subscription of 11 Plus Past Papers with Detailed Answers.
Parents can go through the wrong questions with their child. As our system also shows topic wise segregated questions, it is beneficial for parents to practice more questions on the same topic and revise them frequently. In our 11 plus past paper subscription, time guidance is given for each problem which helps parents to revise the topic questions with their children under time pressure.
For English revision, parents can practice many comprehensions and creative writings given on our website.
How to get the top tutor to prepare for 11 plus exam for Greenshaw High School
We have a team of expert tutors who have placed the students in Greenshaw High School. We have specific courses for preparing your child for Greenshaw High School 11 Plus Entrance test
- 11 plus Maths courses for CEM and GL
- 11 plus English courses for CEM and GL
- 11 plus Verbal Reasoning courses for CEM and GL
- 11 plus Non-Verbal Reasoning courses for CEM and GL
