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Wallington County / Wilson's / Sutton Grammar: Second Stage Practice

Second Stage Entrance Examination Practice

Wallington County Grammar School, Wilson's School and Sutton Grammar School share one Second Stage Entrance Examination: a boy who passes the Selective Eligibility Test sits it once, and each school uses the result separately. It is a different exam entirely from Stage 1. It is not multiple choice, it is broadly based on Key Stage 2 content, and it has two papers of around 45 minutes to an hour each: a written Maths paper and an English paper. Wallington County combines the SET and second-stage scores in a ratio of 2:3, with English and Maths weighted equally. There is no pass/fail readiness band here, because a self-assessed mark isn't comparable across sittings the way an auto-marked Stage 1 score is.

Candidate Details

We ask for birth month and year (not a full date of birth) because the real test is age-standardised, so results are only meaningful when compared with children of the same age in months.

  1. 01Paper 1 (Mathematics): 5 open-answer problems, worked and self-marked.
  2. 02Paper 2 (English): 1 extended piece of writing responding to a given text.
  3. 03Each paper is timed, based on the suggested time per question. Once started, it cannot be paused.
  4. 04After both papers, you'll see a model answer and mark scheme for each question and enter your own marks. There is no auto-marked score.

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Unofficial practice resource. Built from the schools' own admissions pages and consistent public reporting of the second stage's format and topics. It is not an official specimen paper: the schools don't publish sample papers, question counts or total marks. Each of the three schools sets its own pass mark and combines the scores its own way, so a boy may pass for one school and not another from an identical paper. Self-marked: scores here reflect your own or a parent's judgement against the mark scheme shown, not school marking.