September 2024 Entry
ADMISSION PROCEDURES FOR ENTRY TO YEAR 7 SEPTEMBER 2024
Admission arrangements for girls and boys who will be 11 years of age by 1st September 2024 (date of birth between 1st September 2012 and 31st August 2013).
The Admission Authority for this school is the Governing Body and the intended admission number for 2024 is 190. All information with regard to admission to Year 7 for September 2024 can be found on this page. The entrance exam took place in September 2023 and the closing date for online applications was the 12th June 2023.
Please click here for Sale Grammar School Admissions Policy 2024.
Results for Entrance test.
The Trafford Grammar School Consortium, comprising Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, Sale Grammar School, Stretford Grammar School and Urmston Grammar School, are pleased to confirm our partnership with GL Assessment.
GL Assessment will be the test provider for Year 7 entry testing from 2023 for 2024 entry and beyond.
As specified in our admission policies, the content of the examination will remain as it previously has been, comprising mathematics, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning.
GL created a bespoke paper for the Trafford Consortium so students sitting the examination will not sit the same examination at any other school. The entrance exam consists of two tests, each approximately one hour in length, containing questions that assess verbal, non-verbal and mathematics skills. For each element there will be a range of different types of questions.
Questions that test verbal ability skills may include questions relating to word choice, knowledge of words and their meanings and how words relate to each other; students may also be asked questions that relate to verbal reasoning comprehension skills. Questions that test non-verbal ability skills may include questions relating to relationships between shapes and sequences of shapes, identification of common features from a set of figures and applying them to a new figure, codes and spatial awareness questions. Questions that test mathematics skills generally cover content taught in schools up to the start of Year 6. The areas assessed typically include aspects of number, measurement, geometry and statistics. Some questions may involve using current mathematical skills to solve mathematic problems.
The types of questions however, will be similar to those provided in GL’s familiarisation material below.
Click HERE for the Verbal Reasoning familiarisation material
Click HERE for the Non-Verbal Reasoning familiarisation material
Click HERE for the Maths familiarisation material
Click HERE for the Entrance Test Familiarisation Guide