Buckinghamshire (Bucks) 11 Plus Secondary Transfer Test

Visuteach provides GL Assessment style online software tests for English, maths, verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and spatial reasoning for the 11 plus Secondary Transfer Test of the The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools (TBGS).

TBGS (The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools) uses two GL Assessment 11 plus secondary transfer test papers for its selective grammar school admissions process. These are a combined GL Assessment English and verbal reasoning paper and a combined GL Assessment maths and non-verbal reasoning paper (which includes spatial reasoning). Information on the 11 plus Bucks Secondary Transfer Test can be found at the following web address:

The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools (TBGS)

The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools (TBGS) recommends the GL Assessment familiarisation tests below:

11 Plus Buckinghamshire Secondary Transfer Test GL Assessment Familiarisation Tests

Visuteach’s English comprehension package contains 20 online multiple-choice GL Assessment style English tests. Each test has a comprehension passage of about 500 words and contains 25 questions which should be completed in 25 minutes. Each test has 13 comprehension questions, 4 spelling questions, 4 punctuation questions and 4 cloze sentence completion questions.

The English comprehension passages are taken from classics, humorous tales, adventure stories, historical non-fiction, girls’ school stories and boys’ school stories. The English questions cover comprehension, vocabulary (e.g. synonyms, words closest in meaning), identification of parts of speech (e.g. adverbs, adjectives, nouns, verbs, pronouns, prepositions) and identification of literary devices (e.g. simile, metaphor, hyperbole, oxymoron, onomatopoeia).

Visuteach’s maths package contains 20 online multiple-choice GL Assessment style maths tests. Each test has 25 questions which should be completed in 25 minutes.

Visuteach also sells online interactive software membership packages containing GL Assessment style 11 plus verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and spatial reasoning tests.

Visuteach’s GL Assessment verbal reasoning (VR) membership package contains all of Visuteach’s 24 verbal reasoning papers (which have 80 multiple-choice questions each) presented as online interactive software tests. There are 1,920 multiple-choice VR questions which are presented as 24 complete VR tests (with 80 multiple-choice questions per test, to be completed in 50 minutes) as well as 96 shorter tests (with 20 multiple-choice questions per test, to be completed in 12.5 minutes). The short twenty question tests are ideal for daily practice because they require less time to be set aside for learning and because they can be completed quickly. Our 11 plus tests are online multiple-choice tests with automatic and immediate marking.

In addition, in our 11 plus VR software membership package, Visuteach breaks down all of our 1,920 verbal reasoning questions by type i.e. we group all of the questions into the 21 types of GL Assessment verbal reasoning questions. This allows students to concentrate and focus on the question types that they find most difficult rather than spending time on mixed and easier question types.

Visuteach’s GL assessment 11 plus non-verbal reasoning software test membership package contains 60 non-verbal reasoning questions.

Visuteach has GL assessment style spatial reasoning software test membership packages. The packages have 490 questions which include figure recognition, hidden shapes, figure analysis, paper folding, hole punching, block counting, matching shape, jigsaw and combining shapes.