Preparing for the Lincolnshire 11+

What to check first

• Who sets the test your child will sit, and what format do the papers take?
• When does registration open, when does it close, and is a late application possible?
• When is the test sat, and where - at your child's own school or somewhere else?
• When are results released, and how will you be told?
• How are places offered, and what does the over-subscription policy mean for your address?
• Is there an appeal or a review process, and by when would you have to start one?
• Can a child living outside the area apply, and does that change how they are considered?
• What arrangements exist for a child with additional needs, or one who is ill on the day?

We answer none of them, on purpose.

Where the answers are

Two pages, and only two: your local council's 11+ or grammar-school admissions page, and the school's own website. Where they do not answer a question above, the admissions office will - ask them directly, in writing if you want it on the record.

Details change from one year to the next, so only the official page is current - a forum thread or a memory of an earlier intake can describe a process that has moved on. There is no link to a council or a school here either: a link that moves is our error.

How BrightEleven fits

Everything here is a fact about BrightEleven, conditional on the one thing we cannot tell you: whether the Lincolnshire 11+ is a GL Assessment-style test. If it is, our practice is written for that format - Maths, English, Verbal Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning. If it is not, we are the wrong product for the paper your child will sit, and we would rather you knew now than after paying.

Each subject adapts as your child answers, across five levels, with no level for you to set. Daily Quest builds one short cross-subject session a day, so nobody decides what to practise next.

Every wrong answer joins the Fix-It queue and returns later as a different question on the same skill. Timed GL-style mock papers can be started whenever your child likes, as many as they like.

A child's mock results screen shows that they finished, what to work on next and encouragement - no score, no marks out of fifty, no percentage and no pass or fail. The score and the per-topic breakdown are shown to the parent.

Your dashboard shows the per-topic breakdown, concern areas ranked by lowest accuracy with a printable worksheet on each, and a suggested weekly target.

Also worth reading: how BrightEleven works, what we cover, how a question is checked, and the plans.