BrightEleven: the facts

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Last updated 10 November 2026.

What BrightEleven is

In one sentence: An online 11+ practice platform for UK children: adaptive multiple-choice practice, re-teaching of anything they get wrong, child-initiated mock papers, and a dashboard for the parent.
Who it is for: Children aged 8 to 11 (school Years 4 to 6) preparing for selective grammar and independent school entrance tests in the UK.
Exam style: Practice is written in the style of GL Assessment papers - four separate multiple-choice papers: Maths, English, Verbal Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning. BrightEleven does not offer CEM, CSSE, FSCE or ISEB modes. If your school or area uses one of those, check the format before you register.
Independence: GL Assessment is a trademark of its owner. BrightEleven is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to GL Assessment or any exam board.
Language: British English throughout. The site and the app are en-GB only.

Who operates it

Operating company: TechRock Ltd, a company registered in England & Wales, based in London, UK. BrightEleven is TechRock's own product.
Company number: 15719754
ICO registration: ZC233806 (UK Information Commissioner's Office data protection register)
Contact: hello@techrock.co.uk - or the contact form. A person reads every message.
Website: https://www.brighteleven.co.uk

The question bank, measured

Live questions: 181,405 in the live bank, counted on the production database on 10 November 2026. Children are only ever shown questions that have passed an individual correctness check: 177,773 on that date. Any question that failed a check is held back until it is fixed or replaced.
Coverage: 51 topics and 435 topic-and-subtopic pairs across the four subjects, same measurement date.
By subject: Maths 53,693; Non-Verbal Reasoning 42,566; Verbal Reasoning 52,186; English 32,960.
How questions are made and checked: Questions come from BrightEleven's own rule-based generators and from authors working to a written brief, and some drafts are AI-assisted. A new question can only be published by a step that refuses to run unless a verifier has independently re-derived that batch's answers and filed a report - the check does not trust the author or the generator, and the record is written against the rows as they go live. Across the bank, automated verifier rules and bias audits run in our build pipeline, and any question a family reports is checked against its source and corrected or removed. We do not claim that a person has individually reviewed each of the questions already live.
Explanations: Every live question carries a worked explanation of the method, written for a 9 to 10-year-old - 100% of live rows in all four subjects, same measurement date.

How practice works

Placement: Each subject can begin with a placement quest: around 25 mixed questions, untimed, with no score ever shown to the child. It is offered, never forced - a child can start practising without taking one.
Adaptive difficulty: Difficulty moves with the child's answers, per topic, with no manual level-setting: a strong run promotes them, a wobble quietly eases off.
Fix-It: Every wrong answer joins the Fix-It queue: a recap in the same session, then re-tests at 2, 7 and 21 days using a different question on the same skill. Fix-It items are blended into normal practice - never more than three in a session, and never labelled as remedial.
Mock papers: A fresh paper is composed for each attempt from across the subject's topics at the child's current level, avoiding questions they have attempted recently. Full-length papers are 50 questions in 45 minutes, with a timer, question flagging, skip-and-return and an answer-sheet mode. Rough work on paper is expected and never penalised - as in the real tests.
Exam-board weighting: BrightEleven does not have a verified source for how GL or any other board weights topics within a real paper, so no exam-board weighting is applied anywhere: practice and mock papers both use a flat mix across a subject's topics. This is unverified, and stated as such rather than guessed.
Read-aloud in mocks: Read-aloud is available on every mock question - the passage, the question and the answer options - using the same setting a family already has for practice. It is off by default and switched on by the parent.
Pausing and resuming a mock: A child can pause a mock and finish it later. Their answers and the time they have used are saved automatically, and a paused paper can be resumed for up to a week before it stops being offered and a fresh one is composed instead.
Who starts a mock: The child does, whenever they like. BrightEleven never allocates, schedules or chases a mock, there is no "overdue" state, and there is no limit on how many a child can take.
Mock results: The child's results screen shows completion, what to work on next and encouragement. The score and the per-topic breakdown are shown to the parent. BrightEleven does not produce a standardised score or a pass prediction for anyone.

The buddy, gems and the spin wheel

The buddy: Each child can choose an egg that hatches into a buddy. It grows only from right answers, and it lives on its own page in your child's app.
Gems: Gems are the buddy's own currency, kept apart from points. They come only from practice: one gem for each question answered right first time, two for finishing a mini-mission, and some from the spin wheel, which itself opens only after practice. Choosing the first egg also comes with a one-off starter pouch of 10 gems. Gems are spent on looking after the buddy (feeding, playing or a treat, each once a day), on outfits, on sending it on trips and on choosing a new buddy. Nothing in the buddy is bought with money: there is nothing to buy, and no way to pay for gems.
Trips and mini-missions: A trip moves along as your child answers questions and comes home with a postcard. A mini-mission is a short "answer 5 more" offer, and it always has a "Not now" button.
The spin wheel: Up to three spins of the wheel a day. The first comes after the Daily Quest, with small goodies you set from your profile - and jokes, riddles, challenges, gems and bonus points until you do. If your child keeps practising the same day, a bonus spin opens when they have earned 300 points that day and another at 450. Bonus spins never land on your goodies. Every wedge wins something.
Missed days: Nothing is lost for a missed day. The buddy never goes hungry or gets sad, its bond never goes down, and a trip waits however long your child is away.
The parent switch: You can turn the whole buddy and spin wheel off for any child: open their page from your dashboard and switch off "Buddy and spin wheel" (in the Buddy section, or in Settings). Nothing your child has earned is deleted, and switching it back on brings everything back. Points, practice and cards are not affected.

For parents

Exam date and region: A parent can add their child's target exam date and a GL region or area from the child's page. Once added, a plain day count to that date is shown - factual, with no colour change and no urgency copy as it gets closer. Adding a date and region is optional and can be changed at any time.
Region and exam-date data: The paper-structure and area data behind that picker comes from our own records - not from GL or any council. Every area we currently hold is "Not verified yet": unverified by us, and labelled that way wherever a value would otherwise appear. We publish no test dates, registration deadlines or results dates - they are set by each admissions authority and change. Check the current facts with your child's school or council.
Progress and mock trends: Each child's page on the parent dashboard lists their recent practice sessions and, once more than one mock paper has been taken, a plain per-subject trend showing whether recent mock results are moving up, down or holding steady.
Weekly parent brief: A short weekly brief - what happened this week, one thing to try, one thing not to worry about - is written from a bank of human-authored lines chosen by the child's real signals, never generated freeform. It appears on the child's parent page, and in the weekly email digest for parents who opt in.
Honest readiness report: Each child's parent page shows a readiness report per subject: mastery coverage, accuracy on questions they have not seen recently, and the direction of their mock results - each shown as a real measurement or a plain "not enough data yet", never an invented number. There is no single score across subjects, and no standardised score or pass prediction for any subject. A printable version of the same report is available from the child's page.

Guides and free tools

11+ guides: Free to read, with no sign-up: What is the 11+? A plain guide for 2026/27; When to start 11+ preparation; How much 11+ practice is enough?; Year 4 or Year 5: when should 11+ practice begin?; Preparing for the 11+ without a tutor; A calm 11+ exam day; The shift from CEM to GL: what changed, and what it means for your child; Which 11+ exam board does your school use?; 11+ standardised scores, explained.
Subject pages: One page per subject, free to read, each listing that subject's live topics with a free ten-question quiz on any of them: 11+ maths: what it covers and the topics to practise; 11+ English: what it covers and the topics to practise; 11+ verbal reasoning: question types and the topics to practise; 11+ non-verbal reasoning: question types and the topics to practise.
Index pages: Every guide and subject page is listed on 11+ guides for parents, and every tool on Free 11+ tools.
Free tools: No sign-up and no card for any of these: Free 10-minute 11+ topic quiz.

Children, privacy and safety

Account structure: A parent or guardian owns the account and creates each child profile. Children never see pricing, billing, marketing or upsells.
Data collected about a child: A name to show in the app - a first name or a nickname, and a nickname is suggested by default - an avatar made of shapes and colours, a 4-digit PIN (with a log of wrong PIN tries), their own learning data, their app settings and screen-time limit, their buddy and rewards, the parent's consent record, any question they report and any feedback note, plus an exam date and region if the parent chooses to add them. No surname, no date of birth and no year group: year group is not asked for on any screen, and nothing in the product uses it. The child privacy notice carries the complete list.
What a tutor is told: An invited tutor is a data subject too. The invitation email and the accept page both link a tutor privacy notice stating what BrightEleven holds about them (the email address the parent typed, the invitation and its status, and any focus note they write), why, and for how long: a revoked or unaccepted invitation is deleted, with that email address, 30 days after it ends, by a nightly job.
What a child is told: Inside the child's app there is a page written for a child to read on their own - what the app remembers, what it never does, who can see it, and how to ask for it to be deleted - with no numbers on it.
No peer comparison: There are no leaderboards and no comparison with other children anywhere in the product. A child is only ever measured against their own past work.
Trackers on child screens: No third-party analytics or advertising scripts load on any screen a child uses, and error monitoring is not loaded in the child's browser at all. One exception a parent should know: read-aloud is off by default, and if it is switched on the speech model is fetched from a third-party CDN to run locally in the browser.
Analytics generally: Page-view counting is first-party and sets no cookie at all - which is why there is no cookie banner. BrightEleven uses no third-party analytics service anywhere, on any surface.
Chat and AI: Eva, the help assistant, is available to parents and visitors on the public site and in the parent dashboard only. There is no chat assistant, and nothing a child can type freely to anyone, on any child-facing screen - permanently, by design.
Child-to-child contact: None. There is no messaging, no user-generated content, and no visibility between families.
Who can see a child's data: The parent account that created the profile - and, only if that parent chooses to invite one, a tutor. A tutor is an adult the parent already works with; they accept an emailed invitation and then see a summary of that one child (display name, exam date, the level for each topic, each recent practice session with its times, minutes and right answers, mock-paper results, and the Fix-It counts per topic), never individual answers, settings, the PIN, the avatar, screen-time limits or anything about the parent. BrightEleven does not check anyone's qualifications, identity or suitability - we do not vet tutors, and the invitation says so. A parent can revoke access at any time.

Pricing, cancelling and what we do not do

Plans: £7.99/month or £49.99/year. Up to 3 child profiles are included on every plan - that is the family plan; there is no separate family tier.
Current state: Paid plans open on 1 January 2027, when the free beta ends - until then every family has full access without paying anything. Once plans open: cancel any time, no minimum term. The annual plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee - BrightEleven's own promise, additional to your legal rights and handled by a person on request. That money-back guarantee covers a first annual purchase and not a renewal, is limited to one per household, and can be refused where it is being abused - your statutory 14-day refund right is never affected. Refunds end your subscription straight away; nothing is deleted and you can resubscribe any time. Your legal cancellation right: under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 you have 14 days from the day your contract is made to cancel it and get a full refund. Every UK trader selling online has to give you this, so it is not a BrightEleven offer - it is yours by law. To use it, tell us in a clear statement before the 14 days are up - email hello@techrock.co.uk, or use the model cancellation form linked from our terms. We refund within 14 days of being told.
Free trial: There is no free trial, and there will not be one. You pay upfront when you subscribe. No free-access period BrightEleven has ever run was a trial, and none converts into one; whatever applies today is the "current state" line above.
Cancelling: Cancel any time from the billing page, with no minimum term. It stops future billing and access continues to the end of the period already paid for.
Refunds: A refund is different from a cancellation: cancelling keeps access to the end of the period already paid for, while a full refund ends the subscription at the moment it is issued. Refunds end your subscription straight away; nothing is deleted and you can resubscribe any time.
The annual money-back guarantee: The annual plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee - BrightEleven's own promise, additional to your legal rights and handled by a person on request. That money-back guarantee covers a first annual purchase and not a renewal, is limited to one per household, and can be refused where it is being abused - your statutory 14-day refund right is never affected.
Your legal rights: Your legal cancellation right: under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 you have 14 days from the day your contract is made to cancel it and get a full refund. Every UK trader selling online has to give you this, so it is not a BrightEleven offer - it is yours by law. To use it, tell us in a clear statement before the 14 days are up - email hello@techrock.co.uk, or use the model cancellation form linked from our terms. We refund within 14 days of being told. Refunds end your subscription straight away; nothing is deleted and you can resubscribe any time.
Reviews and testimonials: BrightEleven shows short quotes only from families who offered one when we asked and agreed to the exact words being shown. They are not independent reviews, and we never write, buy or reward one. A quote is never declined for being critical, and we never change a family's words. We decline a quote only if it names a child, claims a pass, a school place or a result, or gives personal details. There are no review counts, star ratings, pass rates or success percentages anywhere on this site, and none in its structured data either.
Full terms: Terms, privacy policy and child privacy notice.

Finding out more

Pages worth reading: How it works (the full feature tour), pricing, what we cover (row by row), how questions are checked, 11+ comparisons, FAQ and about.
Accessibility statement: The standard BrightEleven aims for (WCAG 2.2 AA), what has actually been tested, the settings a child can turn on, and the known gaps - including that no assistive-technology user has yet been through the child journey - are on the accessibility statement.
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Corrections: If anything on this page is wrong or out of date, tell us at hello@techrock.co.uk and we will fix it.

GL Assessment is a trademark of its owner. BrightEleven is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to GL Assessment or any exam board.