ST. OLAVE’S 11+ GRAMMAR SCHOOL EXAM
One of the hardest exams in the country for Grammar school admission. No catchment. No benefit to summer born children.
Stage I Exam : School’s Selective Eligibility Test (SET), comprising Logic, Mathematics and English questions, designed to determine whether or not candidates are of the School’s required standard for a selective education.
Stage II Exam: Pupils passing the SET will then be invited to sit second stage tests in English and Mathematics. These will take place before the end of the Autumn term. Scores will be standardised and then aggregated, together with the SET marks, to allow a ranking of candidates. The testing will be competitive and the first one hundred and twenty four in rank order will be offered places. In the event of aggregate
standardised scores being tied for two or more candidates the final rank order will be determined using performance in the Mathematics paper, then, if required, the creative writing, then the English multiple choice, then the SET.
The testing is competitive and the first 124 in rank order will be offered places. In the event of aggregate scores being tied on the final place(s) in the rank order, candidates will be offered places firstly on the basis of performance in the Mathematics test and then, if required, on the basis of their score in the creative writing section of the English test.
The results are -
- Likely - It means a guaranteed place provided you have put St. Olave’s as top choice in the CAF form
- Possibly - You are in the waiting list. Moreover, you could be first or last in the waiting list. Some students go to other GS or private schools thereby leaving slots in Olave’s. There’s nothing you can do except waiting.
- Not likely - Sorry but you are not selected.
About the school -
- Judged by Ofsted as “Outstanding” in March 2014, St Olave’s enjoys a reputation as one of the finest Grammar Schools in the country with a broad focus on scholarship combined with cultural enrichment, within a supportive community.
- Outstanding record of academic excellence consistently showing around 95% of A level results at A*/B grades,
- Over the last 7 years nearly 200 students have taken up Oxbridge places, continuing the tradition of the top two leavers’ destinations for Olavians being the universities of Cambridge and Oxford.4
- 2014 was no exception with 50 students taking up places at Oxbridge or in Medicine.
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160 places
Catchment of 9 miles
Multiple choice only
All girls will be invited to sit the selection tests in September 2014. The selection tests will comprise papers in Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning set by a nationally recognised body. The scores achieved in the tests will be age adjusted and placed in ranked order based on the total score achieved. The scores achieved in the tests will be age adjusted and placed in ranked order based on total score achieved.
Girls who have been ranked as one of the top scorers in the selection tests. Applications will be considered in three groups:
- Group 1 Girls who live within a 9 mile radius of the school.
- Group 2 Girls of a member of Newstead Wood staff who has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time at which the application for admission is made and who live outside the 9 mile radius. And
- Group 3 Girls who do not meet the above conditions.
Where necessary the Non-verbal Reasoning paper will be used to differentiate between applicants on the same overall Score. Please check with the school and council for exact details.
