7 Plus

The Entrance Assessment is taken in January of Year 2 to enter Transition (Year 3) in September. The following is a guide to what each girl should be capable of at the time of the Entrance Assessment.

Mathematics

• Addition

• Subtraction in simple written forms

• Multiplication in the simplest form e.g. ‘lots of’

• Division as used in ‘sharing’ not formal division

• Clocks – ability to tell the time on the hour and half hour

• Simple fractions

• Tables 2x, 3x, and 4x

• A number of story sums where the ability to read is essential

• Simple bar charts

English

• Fluent reading is expected

• Answering simple questions on a passage

• Ability to write a simple, imaginative story

• Simple idea of sentence construction, such as full stops and use of capital letters

• Legible writing with no confusion of letters

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