West Midlands Grammar Schools, Supersaver, All 10 Exams
All 10 exams. 5x Paper 1 exams and 5x Paper 2 exams, in our most discounted pack.
Paper 1 is one of the two halves of that test, written to the partnership's locked GL format and pitched at the difficulty level of the live exam. It covers 19 selective state grammar schools across Birmingham, Warwickshire, Shropshire, Walsall and Wolverhampton. Member schools include King Edward VI Aston, King Edward VI Five Ways, both Camp Hill schools, Queen Mary's Walsall, Haberdashers' Adams and Ashlawn.
The two papers are sat together on a single morning, with a short break between.
The structure:
English opens with a single fiction passage of around 500 words. Twelve multiple-choice questions follow, tilted toward inference, vocabulary in context and figurative language, with one item in the partnership's distinctive Choose TWO format (five options, each naming a pair of answers, single mark on the right option).
Verbal Reasoning moves through four type-blocks in order of pace, fastest first: Vocabulary Opposites (in the partnership's dual A-B-C plus X-Y-Z format), Word Production (a 4-letter word hidden across a word boundary), Word Relationships (find the two outliers in a group of five), and Letter Codes.
Mathematics is tested mentally, no calculator, no ruler, no scrap paper, drawing on four KS2 strands:
number and place value, the four operations, measurement (length, mass, capacity, money, time), and statistics. The four strands are interleaved rather than blocked.
Non-Verbal and Spatial Reasoning closes the paper: NVR Codes, Hidden Shapes, Figures Alike, then Cube Nets for the spatial slot. Paper 1 carries the 3D spatial type; Paper 2 carries the 2D rotation type.
Together with our Paper 2 the two papers cover eight Verbal Reasoning types, eight Non-Verbal types and the full KS2 maths curriculum without a single question type or strand appearing in both.
All multiple choice, all on a GL-style OMR answer sheet. Answer key with explanations included.
Paper 2 puts four subjects into a single 50-minute booklet, each in its own internally timed section:
English is built around a single non-fiction passage of around 500 words, drawn from natural history, biography, history or popular science. Twelve multiple-choice questions follow, weighted toward retrieval, with one item testing Author's Purpose (the question style that consistently appears on non-fiction passages in the live test) and one item in the partnership's distinctive Choose TWO format (five options, each naming a pair of answers, single mark on the right pair).
Verbal Reasoning moves through four type-blocks in pace order, fastest first: Vocabulary Synonyms (Closest in Meaning, in the partnership's dual A-B-C plus X-Y-Z format, marked all-or-nothing on both letters); Words in Sentences (a 3-letter word has been removed from inside one of the words, find it); Insert Letter (a single letter completes one word and begins another); Letter Series.
Mathematics is 12 questions tested mentally, no calculator, no ruler, no scrap paper, covering four KS2 strands: fractions, decimals and percentages; geometry (2D and 3D shape, angle, position, coordinates, transformation); ratio and proportion; and algebra (sequences, simple formulae, function machines). The strands are interleaved across the section rather than presented in separate blocks.
Non-Verbal and Spatial Reasoning closes the paper: NVR Series, Analogies (the make-a-pair format), Matrix completion (2x2 and 3x3 grids), and 2D Rotation and Reflection in the spatial slot.
Pair with our Paper 1 for full coverage of the West Midlands partnership format. Answer key with explanations included.
