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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