GL Assessment Practice Questions

GL Assessment (formerly Granada Learning) is the UK's most widely used provider of 11+ grammar school entrance examination papers. Their tests are used by grammar schools across England, including all six schools in the Trafford Consortium.

GL Assessment papers test children across three distinct disciplines, each requiring different skills and preparation strategies. Understanding the format of each paper is essential for effective preparation.

The GL Assessment Verbal Reasoning paper tests a child's ability to understand and manipulate language. It includes a wide range of question types that appear consistently across GL Assessment papers:

• Synonyms and antonyms — finding words with the same or opposite meaning
• Word connections and analogies — completing word relationships
• Hidden words — finding a word hidden across two adjacent words in a sentence
• Move a letter — moving one letter to create two new words
• Letter sequences — finding the next pair of letters in a pattern
• Odd word out — finding the word that does not belong in a group
• Comprehension — reading a passage and answering questions
• Spelling and punctuation — identifying errors in sentences

ElevenPilot includes all major GL Assessment Verbal Reasoning question types with detailed explanations for every answer.

The GL Assessment Mathematics paper covers the full primary mathematics curriculum at an accelerated level. Children are expected to solve problems quickly and accurately across a range of topics:

• Number and place value — including large numbers, factors, primes and powers
• Fractions, decimals and percentages — calculation and conversion
• Algebra — solving equations and working with sequences
• Ratio and proportion — including scale and direct proportion
• Geometry — angles, shapes, area, perimeter and volume
• Data and statistics — mean, median, mode, probability and graphs
• Speed, distance and time — problem solving with rates
• Word problems — multi-step real-world problems

Non-Verbal Reasoning is often the most unfamiliar subject for children and parents because it does not map directly to school subjects. It tests logical thinking and pattern recognition using shapes and diagrams rather than words or numbers.

GL Assessment Non-Verbal Reasoning question types include:

• Shape Series — identifying the next shape in a visual sequence
• Shape Analogies — applying a transformation rule to a new shape
• Most Like — finding the shape most similar to two given shapes
• Odd Shape Out — finding the shape that does not belong
• Shape Codes — decoding a system of letters assigned to shapes

ElevenPilot renders all Non-Verbal Reasoning questions as full visual SVG diagrams — exactly as they appear in the real GL Assessment papers — rather than text descriptions.

ElevenPilot is built from the ground up for GL Assessment preparation. Unlike generic 11+ resources, every question on ElevenPilot is designed to match the specific style, difficulty and format of GL Assessment papers used in the Trafford 11+.