Last reviewed 23 September 2026
What BrightEleven covers
One screen, so you can decide before you spend anything. Everything below is a statement about our own product - what it does, and what it plainly does not - and nothing on this page is a claim about anybody else's test.
| What | Us | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| Maths, GL-style | Yes | Adaptive practice across the KS2 maths topics, with worked explanations and a Fix-It queue for the ones that go wrong. |
| English, GL-style | Yes | Comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, grammar, cloze and shuffled sentences - multiple choice and short typed answers. |
| Verbal Reasoning, GL-style | Yes | Codes, sequences, analogies, word logic and the rest of the GL-style VR question types. |
| Non-Verbal Reasoning, GL-style | Yes | Matrices, series, rotation and reflection, nets and the other diagram-based NVR types. |
| GL-style timed mock papers | Yes | Composed freshly for each attempt, timed like the real thing, with flagging and skip-and-return. The child never sees a score; the parent sees the breakdown. |
| CSSE written papers | No | We are not built for the Essex consortium test. Its papers are written out rather than chosen from options and include a writing task, so our practice would not match the paper your child sits. |
| ISEB Common Pre-Tests | No | We have no ISEB mode. If your child is sitting the Common Pre-Tests, or a school's own independent-school paper, this is not the right product unless they are also sitting a GL-style grammar test. |
| FSCE papers | No | We have no FSCE mode. Its papers are their own format rather than the four GL-style papers we prepare for. |
| Creative writing and the writing paper | No | There is no creative-writing task anywhere in the product and we do not mark extended writing. If your child's test has a written paper, you will need something else for that part. |
| GCSE, and any other exam | No | BrightEleven does one thing: GL-style 11+ practice for children roughly aged 8 to 11. We do not cover GCSE, A level, entrance tests for other ages or any other qualification. |
We do not publish which test your area sets
We used to list areas and the kind of 11+ test each one sets, and we took that down on purpose. It is information we do not control and cannot keep current, and a parent who prepares for the wrong test on our say-so has lost months. The admissions page of the school or the council you are applying to is the only reliable source: it will name the provider and the papers, and if it does not, the admissions office will tell you if you ask. Formats do change, so a forum post or a friend's memory from a previous intake may describe a test that is no longer set.
Once you know the test is GL-style, our guide to the families of 11+ test explains what each one involves, how we check our questions sets out the process behind the practice, and how BrightEleven works shows what a week looks like. Spotted something on this page that is out of date? Tell us on the contact page and we will check it and correct 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.