Year 7 September 2028 entry

Key Dates

11+ test registration opens for September 2028 entry: May 2027 TBC

Queen Mary’s High School Open Evening: Tuesday 27th April 2027, 5pm – 7pm  

11+ deadline for reasonable adjustments for September 2028 entry: June 2027 TBC

11+ test registration closes for September 2028 entry: June 2027 TBC

11+ test at Queen Mary’s High School: Saturday 11th September 2027  

11+ results to be issued to parents/carers no later than October 2027 TBC

LA preference form deadline: 31st October 2027

Late test registration opens: December 2027 (Date TBC)

Late 11+ Entrance test: March 2028 TBC

West Midland Grammar Schools and the 11+ Entrance Test for 2028 Entry

The test provider for 2028 entry is GL Assessment. In 2023, Queen Mary’s High School began a new partnership with other Midlands based selective schools, known as ‘West Midlands Grammar Schools’, which incorporates all Birmingham, Shropshire, Walsall, Warwickshire, and Wolverhampton grammar schools.   

Sharing Data

The West Midlands Grammar Schools (WMGS) partnership provides an opportunity for schools to share candidate results amongst other partnership schools, if requested on a child’s application form. This means that if your child sits the entrance test in Walsall, they can be eligible to apply for any of the grammar schools in Birmingham, Shropshire, Warwickshire or Wolverhampton. If you intend to apply for multiple schools within the WMGS partnership, you must have ticked the relevant box on the test application form to consent to share your child's details and entrance test result at the time of application. Any request to share results after the registration closing date (date tbc) will not be considered until after National Offer Day, 1st March 2028. Please note that admission criteria to each school within the partnership will differ and we strongly recommend you check individual school websites for further details.   

Aged Standardised Scoring

The West Midlands Grammar Schools’ partnership uses an age-weighted standardisation around a median score of 200. The table below shows the minimum qualifying score, the highest and lowest scores in the test and the lowest score allocated a place (for PP and Non-PP children). Data has been provided for the previous three years. The ‘lowest score allocated a place’ shows you the score of the last pupil offered a place on both national offer day in March and after movement on the waiting list. All scores below have been expressed as standardised to 200 (the scoring system from 2024 entry onwards).  

The scores for each section are standardised to take into account differences in age, meaning younger children are not disadvantaged compared to children in the same cohort who could be almost a year older.  

Minimum Qualifying Scores and Cut-Off Scores

The Minimum Qualifying Score (MQS) for September 2028 entry is subject to analysis and Governors’ confirmation in November 2027. As soon as the MQS is confirmed by Governors, it will be added to our website. Please note, any scores shared on our website are relevant only to QMHS. Please also note the minimum qualifying score can change from one year to another. 

Late Test for September 2028 Entry

Late applications are those where a candidate has not been registered with the school by the test registration deadline (date tbc). All late candidates will be tested as per our published Admission Arrangements.  

Ahead of the closing date for late applications, and once you have submitted your late application form, you will receive a supplementary form which will provide you with an opportunity to explain your reason for late application. All forms will be reviewed by the Governors to determine if your reasons are considered exceptional, or not. By definition, most reasons will not be exceptional. Candidates considered to have exceptional circumstances will be considered as having applied on-time, whereas candidates that are not deemed to have exceptional circumstances will be considered for a waiting list place only, once the first round of offers have been made.  

Students who perform well in the late test will still have the opportunity to be allocated a place at the school from our waiting list, so we encourage you to apply and to amend your Local Authority CAF / preference form, should you not have already included us on the original form in October 2027. Please refer to the published Admission Arrangements for further explanation.  

Enquiries received after 1st February 2028

If you have missed the deadline for both the main and late tests for entry into Year 7 in September 2028, but are still interested in a place with us, please see our Mid-Year Admissions page for more information.   

❗️Important Information❗️

When you apply to register your child to sit the Entrance Test, your child will be allocated a test centre that is closest to their home address. You are not able to select a test centre of your choice, and should you state a different post code than the home post code at the start of the process, please be aware your registration form will be rejected, and you will be instructed to re-apply using the correct postcode.  

In the registration form for your child to sit the Entrance Test, you will be given the following information:  

Please select from the list below the schools that you would like your child to be considered for.  
This is separate from the Local Authority preferences process, which has a separate deadline of the 31st October 2027.  
You must choose from the list below which schools you wish your child’s test results to be shared with. This may be different from the school at which they sat the Entrance Test.  
We cannot share data with schools if they are not selected at this point.  
It will not be possible to change your selections once this application to sit the Entrance Test is submitted.   

If you do not select a particular school then that school will not be able to consider your application at all, even if you later list the school on your preferences form.  

Additional Information

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