Kent Test study guide
Kent Test · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Kent Test is the selection assessment used for entry to Kent's grammar schools. It sits within the Education and children section of Kent County Council's services, alongside school places, term dates, free school meals, the SEND Information Hub, childcare and school transport. The Kent Test study guide has 5 sections and about 1,469 words.
01English
Kent Test English rewards careful reading as much as a wide vocabulary. Typically you meet a passage followed by questions on literal retrieval (the answer is stated outright), inference (the answer is implied but not stated), vocabulary in context, and the writer's purpose or tone.
309 words, about 2 min02Mathematics
You need confident arithmetic with whole numbers, decimals and fractions; place value; ordering negative numbers; the order of operations (brackets, indices, division and multiplication, then addition and subtraction); equivalence between fractions, decimals and percentages; ratio and proportion; simple algebra (substitution and one- and two-step equations); unit conversion; perimeter, area and volume; angle facts (angles on a straight line, in a triangle, vertically opposite); coordinates; averages (mean, median, mode, range); simple probability; and problems involving time and money. Mixed units: centimetres alongside metres, minutes alongside hours.
275 words, about 1 min03Verbal Reasoning
Verbal reasoning tests word knowledge and logic rather than reading. Expect synonyms and antonyms; analogies ('A is to B as C is to ?'); odd one out; letter and number sequences; letter codes and ciphers; compound words; hidden words; alphabetical ordering; small logic puzzles; missing words in sentences; and jumbled sentences to reorder.
282 words, about 1 min04Non-Verbal Reasoning
Non-verbal reasoning asks you to find rules in pictures. The main formats are series (a figure changes step by step), analogies ('this figure is to that figure as…'), 3×3 matrices with a missing cell, odd one out, and combined or superimposed shapes.
294 words, about 1 min05Spatial Reasoning
Spatial reasoning deals with shape in two and three dimensions: rotating and reflecting shapes, nets of cubes, folding and hole-punching, cube rotation, plan and elevation views, combining shapes to make a target, and identifying a shape hidden inside a jigsaw or larger figure. You are usually told whether rotation only is allowed, or whether flipping is permitted too.
309 words, about 2 min