11 Plus Maths Tuition Lincolnshire | There Is No Maths Paper

Is there maths in the Lincolnshire 11 plus?

Not as a paper. The Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools says candidates "take a Verbal Reasoning Test and a Non-Verbal Reasoning Test", supplied for now by GL Assessment. For the 2026 sitting the verbal reasoning test fell on Friday 11 or Saturday 12 September and the non-verbal reasoning and spatial awareness test on Friday 18 or Saturday 19 September, with results emailed at midday on Friday 9 October 2026. A child qualifies with a total standardised score of at least 220 across both papers, a line the consortium says is set to identify the most able 25 per cent of pupils in Lincolnshire's selective areas. The consortium does not endorse tutoring and says no special preparation is needed. Modern Age Coders teaches maths live online for Years 5 to 7; for the test itself, we point families to the consortium's own familiarisation materials.

If you still want maths

Three courses, for school maths rather than the test

These help with Year 5 and 6 maths and the step into Year 7, which matter whatever the 11 plus result. Each card opens a syllabus.

LINCS / 01

11 plus maths preparation

Upper primary number, fractions and problem solving; for families also sitting a test elsewhere that does include maths.

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Lower secondary maths

Pre-algebra and geometry for Year 6 and the first years of any secondary school.

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LINCS / 03

Mental maths, number sense first

Calm, quick arithmetic for a child whose confidence with number is low.

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The test

What is in the Lincolnshire 11 plus?

Two reasoning tests on two days, a week apart, marked by machine and standardised for age. The dates below are the consortium's own for the September 2026 sitting.

Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools, 11+ key dates 2026
Date	What happens
Wednesday 7 January 2026	Registration for the September tests opens on the consortium and grammar school websites
Tuesday 31 March 2026	Deadline for registration forms to reach the individual grammar schools
Friday 26 June 2026	Familiarisation materials due at primary schools
Friday 11 or Saturday 12 September 2026	First test: verbal reasoning
Friday 18 or Saturday 19 September 2026	Second test, which the consortium calls Non-Verbal Reasoning and Spatial Awareness
Friday 9 October 2026	Results emailed to parents at 12:00 midday, and to primary schools at 16:00
Saturday 31 October 2026	Closing date for Lincolnshire local authority secondary applications
Monday 1 March 2027	National Offer Day

How the papers are sat

Children answer by shading choices on an optical mark reading sheet. The verbal reasoning test opens with a ten-minute Preliminary Practice Test, and the non-verbal test is split into sections, each with a few practice questions that are not marked.

Depending on the area of the county, children sit in their own primary school or in the grammar school where they registered. The consortium explains the split as a local decision made when the County Council delegated selection to the schools.

Who runs what

The consortium runs the test. Lincolnshire County Council runs admissions. The consortium says "The Local Authority is not responsible for selection arrangements and testing", and the council's own guide sends parents to the grammar schools for testing questions.

The consortium says it "currently uses GL Assessment to provide 11+ Testing, this arrangement may change over time." Check the consortium's site each year rather than assuming last year's format.

Sources: LCGS 11+ Key Dates 2026 and Testing Arrangements, read 31 October 2026. Modern Age Coders has no connection with the consortium, any of its schools, GL Assessment or Lincolnshire County Council.

The honest part

Does my child need 11 plus maths tuition in Lincolnshire?

For the test, no. The papers are verbal and non-verbal reasoning. Maths teaching helps a Lincolnshire child in other, real ways, and we would rather sell those honestly.

Families who know the 11 plus from Kent, Buckinghamshire or Birmingham may expect a maths section, because GL Assessment writes those tests too and they include one. Lincolnshire's consortium orders a different shape. Its list of recommended practice packs, published on its own site, names verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning packs only. A family who buys maths practice papers for the Lincolnshire test is preparing for something the child will not sit.

What the test measures

The consortium says the tests "are designed to identify potential. They are not tests of attainment and do not reflect the amount of work done or the teaching styles of different primary schools."

What it advises

"No special preparation is needed." The consortium adds that "Too much preparation puts children under pressure and may be counter-productive" and that it "does not endorse tutoring".

What we therefore offer

Not test coaching. Maths for school, for children who also sit a test elsewhere that includes maths, and for the step into a grammar or any other secondary school in Year 7.

When our maths lessons make sense

A child who is anxious about number, behind on Year 5 or Year 6 maths, or sitting another area's test that does set maths. The consortium notes that passing an 11 plus elsewhere does not usually exempt a child: "In most circumstances, it will still be necessary to take the Lincolnshire tests." Some families therefore sit two different tests.

A child who has qualified and wants to start Year 7 secure. The consortium describes its 15 schools as offering "a distinctive academic curriculum that stretches able children", and secure arithmetic is part of being ready for that.

When they do not

As a way to raise the Lincolnshire 11 plus score. Nothing we teach is aimed at verbal or non-verbal reasoning items, and we will not claim that maths lessons move a reasoning score.

As a substitute for the consortium's free familiarisation materials, which come through Lincolnshire feeder primary schools. Those are the right way for a child to see the format.

The 220 line

What is the Lincolnshire 11 plus pass mark?

The consortium calls it a qualifying level, not a pass mark: a total standardised score of at least 220 across the two papers.

How the consortium explains its scores
Question	The consortium's answer
What is the qualifying level?	"a total standardised score of at least 220 on both papers"
Why 220?	It is "set to identify the most able 25% of pupils in the age group in primary schools in the selective areas of Lincolnshire"
Is there an age allowance?	Yes, comparing a pupil only with pupils of the same age; it "is not fixed in advance"
Are boys and girls treated differently?	"There is no adjustment for the sex of the pupil taking the test."
Must every question be answered?	"It is possible to return a high standardised score without answering every question"
Can parents see raw scores?	No: "The Consortium has therefore resolved not to give parents the raw scores."
Can a child sit twice?	"The selection tests may only be taken once in the academic year."

Standardisation in plain terms

A raw score is the number of correct answers. The consortium converts it to a scale that compares a child with children of the same age, so that a child born in July or August is not at a disadvantage against one born the previous September. Because the allowance is based on how older pupils actually scored that year, it cannot be known before the test.

The two standardised scores are then added, and a total of 220 or more qualifies.

What the consortium publishes

After each sitting the consortium publishes the spread of total scores and pupil ages; its 2025 table was published on 9 November 2025, with counts of five or fewer pupils suppressed so no child can be identified. It also lists how many pupils completed both papers at each test venue.

It does not publish an individual breakdown, and says giving separate paper scores "did not help parents understand or come to terms with their child's overall score".

Source: LCGS Selection Process FAQ and the consortium's 11+ data pages, read 31 October 2026. We print no prediction of any child's score.

Admissions

Does qualifying guarantee a Lincolnshire grammar school place?

No. Qualifying makes a child eligible; the place comes through the council's normal application, judged against each school's oversubscription criteria.

Register for the test with a grammar school in Year 5, by the consortium's deadline (31 March in 2026).
Sit both tests in September of Year 6.
Receive the total score by email in early October (9 October in 2026), before applications close.
Apply through Lincolnshire County Council between early September and 31 October of Year 6, naming any grammar school you want; the council says "you can select up to four schools".
Receive the offer on National Offer Day (1 March 2027 for this cohort).

From the council's guide

"If your child reaches the required standard in the 11+, they will not automatically be offered a place. You must still name the grammar school on your application."

And the other direction: "If your child does not meet the required standard at a grammar school, a place will not be offered." Children who did not qualify cannot be added to a grammar school's reserve list unless found qualified at appeal.

Two small things families miss

The council's application page allows up to four preferences, while the consortium's admissions page still says "up to three". The council runs admissions, so its number is the one to plan around; ask the council if in doubt.

Selective and non-selective areas differ. The consortium notes that families outside Lincolnshire, or in non-selective parts of the county, make their own transport arrangements to grammar schools.

Sources: Lincolnshire County Council, Going to school in Lincolnshire; Apply for a school; LCGS Admissions. Admissions questions belong with the council and the schools; we do not advise on them.

Readiness, not drilling

What can families do at home instead of test coaching?

Broad thinking and spatial play, the kind of everyday habit that helps any child and imitates no test. The warm-ups below are ours; they are not verbal or non-verbal reasoning items.

Fold and predict

Our warm-up: draw a cross of six squares on paper, mark one square with a star, and ask which square will be opposite the star when it folds into a cube. Then fold it and check. Being wrong and seeing why is the point.

Turn it in your head

Our warm-up: write a capital F on card, then ask what it looks like after a quarter turn clockwise, then in a mirror. Draw the prediction before turning the card. Two minutes, at the kitchen table.

Say the rule

Our warm-up: one person makes a number sequence with a secret rule, the other finds the rule and must say it in a full sentence. "Add three" is fine; "it goes up" is not. Precise words are a reasoning habit.

Maths that pays off in Year 7, our readiness list for Lincolnshire families
Skill (ours)	Why it matters in Year 7
Times tables to 12, recalled instantly	Every fraction, ratio and algebra lesson leans on them
Fractions, decimals and percentages as one idea	Secondary maths moves between the three constantly
Written long multiplication and division	Needed before calculators arrive in secondary lessons
Reading a word problem for the operation	The habit behind every multi-step question that follows
Explaining a method in words	Grammar and comprehensive schools alike ask pupils to justify answers

Children who enjoy that kind of pattern hunting often enjoy logic in code as well; our Lincolnshire coding page starts from truth tables and puzzles. For areas whose GL test does set maths, see GL Assessment 11 plus maths, area by area.

Year by year

A calm route from Year 5 to Year 7

Registration falls early in Year 5's spring; everything else is ordinary good schooling.

What matters when, for a Lincolnshire child
When	Focus	Secure when
Spring of Year 5	Register for the test if you choose to	The grammar school has the form before the deadline
Summer of Year 5	Familiarisation from the primary school	The child knows how the answer sheet works
September of Year 6	Two tests, a week apart	Sat calmly, well rested
Rest of Year 6	Year 6 maths and the move to secondary	Arithmetic and fractions secure for Year 7

Whatever the result

The line is set at the most able quarter of pupils in the selective areas, so most children there will not reach it. That is the design, not a failure.

Good maths in Year 6 serves every route.

Later on

Our GCSE maths page covers the next big exam.

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Primary maths

Years 3 to 6

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Mental maths for kids

Number sense for children who freeze at sums.

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The national tests at the end of Year 6.

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11 plus maths preparation

For a second test elsewhere that includes maths.

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Into secondary

Years 6 to 8

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Lower secondary maths

Pre-algebra and geometry for Year 7.

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Competition maths

Harder problems for keen mathematicians.

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III

Thinking in code

Ages 8 and up

UK / GAK / 07

Maths through coding

Patterns and number explored in Python.

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UK / GAK / 08

Scratch coding for kids

Logic and sequence, built visually.

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How lessons run

Live online, so every corner of the county is equal

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays. Teaching comes from India, where clocks do not change: India time is four and a half hours ahead of UK time in summer and five and a half in winter. Lessons are booked in UK time.

After school

For Years 5 and 6, early in the evening.

Weekend morning

For families who keep weeknights clear.

Holidays

Short refreshers before Year 7.

Honest scope

Maths for school and Year 7, never sold as Lincolnshire test coaching.

No travel

The same lesson in Skegness, Stamford or Gainsborough.

Group or 1-on-1

A batch of 15 to 20 at one level, or a teacher for one child.

Own material

Our questions and warm-ups, never copied test items.

Plain reports

A short note on what improved and what did not.

No promises

Qualification and places belong to the consortium and the council.

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Lincolnshire 11 plus questions

What Lincolnshire parents ask

Is there a maths paper in the Lincolnshire 11 plus?

No. The consortium sets a verbal reasoning test and a non-verbal reasoning and spatial awareness test. Its recommended practice packs are verbal and non-verbal reasoning only.

What is the Lincolnshire 11 plus pass mark?

The consortium calls it a qualifying level: a total standardised score of at least 220 across the two papers. It says the line is set to identify the most able 25 per cent of pupils in the selective areas of Lincolnshire.

When are the Lincolnshire 11 plus dates for 2026?

Registration opened on 7 January 2026 and forms were due by 31 March 2026. The verbal reasoning test was on 11 or 12 September 2026, the non-verbal test on 18 or 19 September 2026, and results were emailed at midday on 9 October 2026.

Who provides the Lincolnshire 11 plus test?

The consortium says it currently uses GL Assessment and that this arrangement may change over time. Check the consortium site each year.

Should I hire an 11 plus tutor in Lincolnshire?

The consortium says no special preparation is needed and that it does not endorse tutoring. We do not offer Lincolnshire test coaching; we teach maths for school and for Year 7.

Can I see my child's raw scores?

No. The consortium says it has resolved not to give parents raw scores, and issues the overall standardised score only.

My child passed an 11 plus in another county. Is that enough?

Usually not. The consortium says that in most circumstances it will still be necessary to take the Lincolnshire tests.

Does qualifying guarantee a place?

No. Lincolnshire County Council says a child who reaches the standard is not automatically offered a place; you must still name the grammar school on your application, and oversubscription criteria apply.

How many schools can I list on the application?

Lincolnshire County Council's application page says up to four, while the consortium's admissions page says up to three. The council runs admissions, so check with the council.

When are your maths lessons?

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays. All times are given in UK time.

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Three courses, for school maths rather than the test

11 plus maths preparation

Lower secondary maths

Mental maths, number sense first

What is in the Lincolnshire 11 plus?

How the papers are sat

Who runs what

Does my child need 11 plus maths tuition in Lincolnshire?

What the test measures

What it advises

What we therefore offer

When our maths lessons make sense

When they do not

What is the Lincolnshire 11 plus pass mark?

Standardisation in plain terms

What the consortium publishes

Does qualifying guarantee a Lincolnshire grammar school place?

From the council's guide

Two small things families miss

What can families do at home instead of test coaching?

Fold and predict

Turn it in your head

Say the rule

A calm route from Year 5 to Year 7

Whatever the result

Later on

Maths and coding courses for Lincolnshire children

Primary maths

Primary maths, Years 1 to 5

Mental maths for kids

KS2 SATs maths

11 plus maths preparation

Into secondary

Lower secondary maths

Competition maths

Thinking in code

Maths through coding

Scratch coding for kids

Live online, so every corner of the county is equal

Honest scope

No travel

Group or 1-on-1

Own material

Plain reports

No promises

What our students go on to make

NutriLife

Misti

GuardianX

SkyCast

Fees for maths lessons

Rated 4.9 across 547 Google reviews

What Lincolnshire parents ask

Is there a maths paper in the Lincolnshire 11 plus?

What is the Lincolnshire 11 plus pass mark?

When are the Lincolnshire 11 plus dates for 2026?

Who provides the Lincolnshire 11 plus test?

Should I hire an 11 plus tutor in Lincolnshire?

Can I see my child's raw scores?

My child passed an 11 plus in another county. Is that enough?

Does qualifying guarantee a place?

How many schools can I list on the application?

When are your maths lessons?

More for Lincolnshire families

GL Assessment 11 plus maths

11 plus maths tuition

Coding classes in Lincolnshire

Coding classes in Lincoln

KS2 SATs maths papers

Coding classes in the UK

Related pages in this guide

11+ by area

Tests by provider and entry point

Northern Ireland transfer test

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