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Two multiple-choice papers, which the King Edward VI Foundation describes as around 60 minutes each, including instructions and example questions. They cover English comprehension, verbal reasoning, maths, and non-verbal and spatial reasoning. English and verbal reasoning carry 50% of the marks, and maths and non-verbal reasoning 25% each. The same test is used by all 19 schools in the West Midlands Grammar Schools partnership.

You register while your child is in Year 5, and they sit the test in Year 6, usually in September. Our West Midlands 11+ guide lists the published dates. How you register depends on where you live: Warwickshire residents register through Warwickshire County Council, according to the Warwickshire schools' admission policies.

Nineteen schools: eight in Birmingham, six in Warwickshire, and five in Walsall, Wolverhampton and Newport, Shropshire. They share one entrance test. Each school, or group of schools, sets its own admission rules, including the score needed. Our West Midlands 11+ guide lists them all.

No. Jenner Learning is written for the four areas and two-paper format of the 11+ test shared by the 19 schools in the West Midlands Grammar Schools partnership, so families applying to any of them can use it. We're independent of the schools and the test provider.

No. Nobody outside GL Assessment sees the real papers. Every Jenner Learning question is written from scratch to match the style, format and topics of the test, checked by code where possible and solved again by separate automated reviewers that can't see the answer before going live.

No. Jenner Learning is independent. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to GL Assessment, West Midlands Grammar Schools (the schools' partnership), the King Edward VI Foundation, any council or any school. We don't have the real test papers. GL Assessment is a trade mark of its owner and is named only to describe the test.

There are two courses. The 11+ Year 4 course is for children in Years 3 and 4: children in Year 3 begin on its Year 3 start, which has its own price, and move on to Year 4 questions each September. The 11+ Year 5 course is for Years 5 and 6. Year 4 children move up to the Year 5 course each September, and every skill score carries over.

The Year 3 start, a gentler way into the 11+ Year 4 course with shorter sessions and a parent view without scores. It costs £20 a month or £200 a year per child, or £16 a month at the founding price for waitlist families. A child you add in Year 3 starts on it automatically. On 1 September they move on to Year 4 questions and the 11+ Year 4 price, £30 a month, or £24 for founding families.

Not for the 11+. Your child practises in child mode inside your account. A 4-digit parent PIN takes you out of child mode and back to the parent area.

Every question has a worked answer that shows the method. Two wrong and your child gets an easier question, so they can rebuild confidence. Three right in a row and the questions step up. Questions they got wrong come back later for another try.

Every skill from secure to needs work, your child's mock exam scores, and a summary email every Sunday.

A laptop or tablet with a web browser. There's nothing to download or install.

It's our best guess at the grade your teenager's marks would get, using Jenner Learning's own grade boundaries, set from the exam boards' recent published boundaries. Real boundaries change every year, and on screen only final answers are marked, so working that would earn method marks in the exam isn't counted. Treat it as a guide to progress, not a prediction of their real result.

Not sure which tier? Their maths teacher will know which tier they're likely to sit. As a rough guide: Foundation if they're working towards grades 1 to 5, Higher if they're aiming for grade 6 or above. You can switch tiers at any time. Foundation covers grades 1 to 5 and Higher covers grades 4 to 9. Each GCSE Maths place is for one tier. If the teacher's advice changes later, you can switch tiers yourself from your child's page. Their progress is kept and the price doesn't change.

Open your teenager's progress page in your parent area and press Get a code under Student mode. On their phone, tablet or laptop they go to jennerlearning.co.uk/student, type the code (it works once, for 10 minutes) and choose their own PIN of 4 to 6 numbers. You can link up to 3 devices. If they forget their PIN, remove the device on the same page and link it again with a new code, and they choose a new PIN.

Yes. Turn on 25% extra time on timed papers on your teenager's progress page. A 1 hour 30 minute paper then runs to 1 hour 52 minutes 30 seconds. You don't need to tell us why, and we don't ask. Their results show which papers were sat with extra time.

Up to 4 printable downloads a family each calendar month. A paper and its mark scheme are two downloads. The count starts again on the 1st of each month. Each download carries your family's own licence code and is for use at home only. Papers sat on screen don't count towards the 4.

Your teenager, and nobody else in your family. You see their marks, the topics they've practised, how long they've spent and an estimated grade, but not the answers they type or their PIN. At Jenner Learning, nobody reads the answers they type, except to check a question that seems to have been marked wrongly. They can download their own answers in student mode.

Plans are per child, and one family account holds them all. 11+ plans are paid monthly or yearly. GCSE Maths is monthly only, so a plan with a GCSE Maths place is monthly for every child. Prices are on our Prices page.

Yes. Your family's first plan starts with a 7-day free trial. We take card details up front, and the plan becomes paid unless you cancel. There is no second trial if you return.

Waitlist families who start within 30 days of their invitation get a founding price: £16 a month for the Year 3 start, £24 a month for 11+ Year 4 and £36 a month for 11+ Year 5, per child, fixed while your plan continues without a break. When a child moves on to the next course, they move to its founding price. GCSE Maths: £20 a month per student, paid monthly.

Yes. Ask for a refund for any reason within 14 days of your first payment and you get all of it back. After that, payments are not refundable, except where the law says otherwise or we have let you down.

Mock exam weekends are booked and paid for one at a time. Families with a Jenner Learning plan pay the lower member price. Families on a free trial pay the normal mock price.

Their first name, school year and, if you choose, month and year of birth, plus their practice: answers, working notes and scores. We never ask for a child's email address, surname or photo.

No. There is no tracking in the child area and no public profiles. Privacy is switched on by default.

Your children's progress is deleted automatically 12 months after your plan ends. See the privacy notice for everything else.