Plymouth 11 Plus

The Plymouth and Devon route is not a large formal consortium in the way Kent, Buckinghamshire or the West Midlands are. It is a small local selective landscape, with the Plymouth girls’ grammar route at its centre and nearby Devon selective context often considered alongside it. That makes the page more of a local route explainer than a single neat “one exam covers everything” page.

For Plymouth entry, the route is built around Devonport High School for Girls and Plymouth High School for Girls. The test uses separate English and maths papers provided by GL Assessment, taken on separate dates rather than as one combined morning. The English paper tests comprehension and language work, while the maths paper draws on Key Stage 2 knowledge and problem solving.

The practical rhythm of this route is distinctive. There can be a mock-exam stage, a registration window, information letters before the test, then separate English and maths test days. That calendar is quite different from routes where all papers are sat in one session, and it can affect how the autumn of Year 6 feels.

The Devon part of the label is important because families outside Plymouth may be weighing a much longer journey or a school-specific route rather than a compact city decision. The route should therefore be read as a guide to the local selective landscape: which schools are connected, which papers and dates apply, and whether the school-day journey makes sense after the exam detail is clear.