Withington Girls' School — 11+ English Entrance Exam 2024
Withington Girls' School set this 11+ English paper in 2024. Hearthprep hosts it as an interactive past paper — 22 questions worth 50 marks in 50 minutes, each marked the moment the paper is submitted and backed by a step-by-step worked solution. Most 11+ entrance exams are sat between November and January of the year of entry.
Real 11+ English paper from Withington Girls' School (2024). 22 questions, 50 marks. Answer interactively with worked solutions. Covers Creative Writing, Literary Analysis, Punctuation & Grammar, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary.
This is the school's own past paper, reproduced here with worked solutions by Hearthprep. Most 11+ entrance exams are sat between November and January of the year of entry, so a timed attempt at this paper is worth doing early enough to leave room for the topics it exposes. Work through it on screen with instant marking, or print the PDF and sit it under exam conditions.
- School
- Withington Girls' School
- Entry level
- 11+
- Subject
- English
- Year
- 2024
- Questions
- 22
- Marks
- 50
- Time
- 50 minutes
- Exam board
- ISEB
Topics in this paper
- Creative Writing
- Literary Analysis
- Punctuation & Grammar
- Reading Comprehension
- Vocabulary
Questions in this paper (3 of 22)
- Question 1multiple choice · 1 mark
SECTION A: COMPREHENSION (Spend about 40 minutes on this section) This is an extract from H.G. Wells' ghost story 'The Red Room'. In this passage, the narrator discusses his plans to spend the night in the Red Room. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions below. (Line numbers are shown in square brackets so you can find the lines the questions refer to.) [1] "I can assure you," said…
- Question 2multiple choice · 1 mark
[Reading passage - 'The Red Room' by H.G. Wells (Section A): the narrator, a confident twenty-eight-year-old, boasts to two strange old men and a gloomy old woman beside the fire that no ghost can frighten him. They grimly keep repeating that spending the night in the haunted Red Room is 'his own choosing', and a second, even older and more decayed old man shuffles in to join them.] What does "…
- Question 3multiple choice · 1 mark
[Reading passage - 'The Red Room' by H.G. Wells (Section A): the narrator, a confident twenty-eight-year-old, boasts to two strange old men and a gloomy old woman beside the fire that no ghost can frighten him. They grimly keep repeating that spending the night in the haunted Red Room is 'his own choosing', and a second, even older and more decayed old man shuffles in to join them.] Where is th…
19 further questions in this paper open with any paid plan, along with marking and the worked solutions. See plans.
Frequently asked questions
What is in the Withington Girls' School — 11+ English Entrance Exam 2024?
22 questions worth 50 marks in total, written for 50 minutes. It covers Creative Writing, Literary Analysis, Punctuation & Grammar, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary. Withington Girls' School set it as a 11+ English paper.
How long is the Withington Girls' School 11+ English paper?
This paper is timed at 50 minutes for 50 marks — roughly 60 seconds a mark. Hearthprep runs the same clock on screen, so your child sees how far through the time they are as they answer.
Can my child answer this paper online?
Yes. Every question on this page can be answered in the browser and is marked the moment the paper is submitted — multiple choice, short answers and written responses alike. Answers are matched leniently, so a correct value written a different way (units, fractions, word numbers) still scores.
Are worked solutions included?
Every question has a step-by-step worked solution and an AI tutor that will talk through it after the paper is submitted. The first 3 questions of this paper are free to try; the remaining 19 and the marking come with a paid plan.
Where does this Withington Girls' School paper come from?
This is the school's own past paper, reproduced here with worked solutions by Hearthprep. Use it to time a full mock attempt, then drill whichever topics your child drops marks on.
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