Essex CSSE English and Maths Online 11 Plus Tests

Visuteach provides online Essex CSSE 11 plus English and maths membership packages which contain online tests that help prepare for Essex CSSE 11 plus exams. We also sell CEM English/VR and English Comprehension membership packages that help prepare for the English / verbal reasoning part of CEM 11 plus exams. Details of the contents of the membership packages, sample images, questions, answers, explanations, downloadable pdf files and online demo computer software tests are shown further down this web page.

The majority of grammar schools in Essex are part of the Consortium for Selective Schools in Essex (CSSE). The 11 plus exam in these schools consists of a CSSE English paper (which is made up of a comprehension test, an applied reasoning test and a continuous writing test) and a CSSE maths paper.

Chelmsford County High School for Girls is not part of the CSSE, and its 11 plus exams are CEM 11+ exams. CEM is the Centre for Monitoring and Evaluation at Durham University.

Essex CSSE 11 Plus Demos

Essex CSSE 11 Plus Maths Demo:

Print out the blank answer sheet and write your answers on it. When you have completed the test, check your answers against the completed answer sheet. For explanations of the answers, click on the Answers & Explanations link.

Blank Answer Sheet

Essex CSSE 11 Plus Maths Demo Test

Completed Answer Sheet

Answers & Explanations

Essex CSSE 11 Plus English Demo:

Our comprehension demo is an untimed test (whereas our purchased tests are timed tests).

You should print out the comprehension passage (or you can read it online within the test software itself), and you should write your answers to the comprehension and applied reasoning tests on a piece of paper. When you have completed the test, check your answers against the completed answer sheet.

Passage

Essex CSSE 11 Plus Comprehension Test

Essex CSSE 11 Plus Applied Reasoning Test

Answer Sheet

You can download and print out a pdf file of the questions in Visuteach’s Essex CSSE 11 plus maths software demos by clicking on the link below:

Visuteach Essex CSSE 11 Plus Maths Sample Questions

The questions, answers and explanations are shown in the tabs below.

You can download and print out a pdf file of a sample of one of Visuteach’s Essex CSSE 11 plus English comprehension tests by clicking on the link below:

Visuteach Essex CSSE 11 Plus English Comprehension Test

Alternatively, you can read the comprehension passage below. The comprehension passage below can be displayed in full screen mode by clicking on the Full Screen icon (which has has four small white diagonal arrows) on the toolbar at the bottom of the passage. To exit from full screen mode, you can click on the Full Screen icon or press the Esc key on your keyboard.

For mobile users, you can use pinch and zoom to enlarge the text.

The answers to the sample test are shown in the tabs below.

You can download and print out a pdf file of a sample of one of Visuteach’s Essex CSSE 11 plus Applied Reasoning tests by clicking on the link below:

Visuteach Essex CSSE 11 Plus Applied Reasoning Sample Test

Alternatively, you can open the Applied Reasoning test below. The Applied Reasoning test below can be displayed in full screen mode by clicking on the Full Screen icon (which has has four small white diagonal arrows) on the toolbar at the bottom of the passage. To exit from full screen mode, you can click on the Full Screen icon or press the Esc key on your keyboard.

For mobile users, you can use pinch and zoom to enlarge the text.

The answers to the sample test are shown in the tabs below.

Essex CSSE 11 plus English papers are quite difficult. The comprehension passages and the vocabulary are difficult. In the past, comprehension passages have been taken from authors such as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Graham Greene. Our Essex CSSE English tests contain comprehension passages by Samuel Smiles, George Eliot, Jerome K. Jerome, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Thomas Hardy, Emily Brontë and Charlotte Brontë among others.

Visuteach Products for CEM 11 Plus Exams

For Chelmsford County High School for Girls, which uses CEM 11 plus exams, we have a CEM English/Verbal Reasoning membership package with online software CEM tests, and we have 20 English comprehension papers for extra comprehension practice.

Demo of Online CEM English / VR Membership Package

Demo 1:
This demo contains some synonym, antonym, cloze (missing words and missing letters) and jumbled, shuffled sentence questions.

Demo 1

Demo 2:
This demo contains cloze tests with missing letters in words.

Demo 2

Demo 3:
This demo is a timed comprehension test (with answers at the end of the test).
Print out the passage and then run the demo test.

Passage

Demo 3

Demo of English Comprehension Papers

Download and print out the answer sheet and the comprehension passage for the question paper by clicking on the links below. Then look at the question paper and fill the answer sheet in. Finally, check your answers against the correct answers shown below.

Blank Answer Sheet

Comprehension Passage

Question Paper


Correct Answers