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Medway Test

Around 2,185 children have registered to sit the Medway Test this year, with all of Medway’s 62 maintained primaries holding the test in their own schools, after the council gave them the option to change testing arrangements during a consultation at the end of last year.

The majority of primaries (43) have chosen to hold the test within normal school hours on Tuesday, 18 and Wednesday, 19 September.

The remaining 19 will be holding the test in their own schools, but have decided to hold it on Saturday, 22 September.

Three out of Medway’s four independent schools will also be holding the test at their own school this year.

There will be two independent test centres – at Fort Pitt Grammar School and Rochester Grammar School for Girls, open on Saturday, 22 September, where children from out of the area and from Kings School, Rochester, will be taking the test.

The Medway Test consists of three separate papers:

  1. An extended writing exercise
  2. A mathematics paper
  3. A verbal reasoning paper

The tests are specifically written for Medway and are designed to select 23 per cent of children in the year group as assessed suitable for grammar school education. A further two per cent are selected through the review process.

Information for parents

If your child is sitting the Medway Test this year, you can download information about the test day arrangements on one of the two links below:

To download these pdfs you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have it on your computer, please use our advice page.

 

For more information contact us by telephone: 01634 306000 or by email: info@medway.gov.uk

Write to: Medway Council, Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TR

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