How to prepare for the More House School 11+ exam

The exam at a glance

More House School is an independent day school for girls in Knightsbridge, and for Year 7 entry it uses a shared London 11+ Consortium entrance paper. For families applying for September 2028 entry, the current verified position is that the school is part of the consortium and that applicants should expect preparation across Maths, English, Verbal Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning.

The important practical point for parents is that consortium papers can vary in the exact mix and structure from one admissions cycle to another. More House’s own admissions information says Year 7 applicants sit the London 11+ Consortium examination and then continue through the school’s own selection process, which includes a selection event, interview and school reference. So the written paper is only one part of the overall assessment.

At the time of writing, the school information we found does not clearly confirm the exact paper timings for the 2028 entry cycle, nor whether the test is delivered on paper or digitally. Until the school publishes the next cycle in full, the safest approach is to prepare steadily across all four subjects and then check the school’s admissions page and consortium guidance when registration opens.

In practical terms, the assessment journey usually looks like this:

register with the school for Year 7 entry;
sit the London 11+ Consortium entrance examination;
if invited forward, attend More House’s own Selection Day;
complete interview and any further school-based assessment steps;
receive an offer decision from the school.

For a child in Year 5 now, the right mindset is calm breadth rather than over-specialisation: secure core English and Maths, regular reasoning practice, and gradual familiarity with timed work later on.

Registration and key dates

For More House, the admissions process is run by the school, with the written test forming part of the London 11+ Consortium process. The school’s admissions page for Year 7 says registration is made through its admissions route and that applicants are assessed through the consortium exam plus More House’s own selection stages.

For the currently published cycle we were able to verify the following dates from official school pages:

Registration deadline: 6 November 2026
Consortium exam: typically 1 December 2026 for the available cycle listed in ElevenReady’s verified facts
Selection Day: Thursday 14 January 2027
Offers: Friday 12 February 2027
Acceptance deadline: noon on Wednesday 3 March 2027

Because your child is aiming for 2028 entry, these are best used as the most recent published pattern, not as guaranteed 2027–28 dates. If More House has not yet posted the new cycle when you read this, plan on registration and testing following a similar autumn-to-winter timetable and sign up for alerts so you do not miss the school’s formal opening date.

What parents should prepare for registration:

basic pupil details and parent contact information;
current school details;
any documentation the school specifically asks for on its application form or portal;
time to complete any additional scholarship forms if relevant.

If you are also considering scholarship routes, do read those pages separately. We found a scholarships page carrying older-looking dates and wording that appear to relate to a different cycle, so parents should rely on the main admissions page first and then confirm anything scholarship-specific directly with the school.

Useful planning links:

The More House School 11+ guide (format, catchment, dates): /schools/more-house-school
Free email alerts for this school's key dates: /school-alerts?school=more-house-school

Who can apply: catchment and admissions

More House School is an independent school, so there is no catchment area for Year 7 entry. Families can apply from anywhere, provided they complete the school’s admissions process.

For 11+ entry, More House states that candidates are considered through a combination of the London 11+ Consortium examination, a selection event, an interview and a school reference. That matters because preparation should not focus only on exam technique. Reading confidence, clear written expression, classroom maturity and the ability to engage positively in person can all help at the later stages.

We were able to verify the school’s published fees for senior years: Years 7 to 13 cost £11,670 per term including VAT. As always with independent schools, parents should check the latest fee schedule directly with the school before applying, as fees can change.

We did not find an official published figure for the number of Year 7 places available, nor any published pass mark or score threshold for the consortium paper at More House. The school does not publicly present the process that way, and independent schools commonly make decisions using the whole admissions profile rather than a single published cut-off. If you want the latest detail on likely numbers in a particular year, contact admissions directly.

Competition can still be strong even when a school does not publish a pass mark. The most sensible approach is to aim for a child who is comfortably secure in Key Stage 2 Maths and English, can cope with reasoning questions without panic, and is ready to present well at interview and selection activities.

A month-by-month preparation plan

For September 2028 entry, your child will sit the exam in the autumn of Year 6. A steady plan from Year 5 usually works better than a late rush. The timetable below assumes a typical autumn exam window and keeps workload realistic.

When	What to do
January to March of Year 5	Keep it light: around 1 to 2 hours a week in total. Focus on reading quality fiction and non-fiction, accurate arithmetic, times tables, spelling patterns and vocabulary building. Introduce short untimed Verbal Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning exercises simply to learn the question styles.
April to June of Year 5	Increase to about 2 to 3 hours a week. Start weekly English comprehension, one short creative writing task every fortnight, and regular Maths practice covering fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio basics and multi-step word problems. Add small reasoning sets with review afterwards.
July to August before Year 6	Aim for 3 hours a week, broken into short sessions. Summer is a good time to fill gaps without school pressure. Use one mixed subject rotation each week: English, Maths, VR and NVR. Begin gentle timing on small sections, but avoid full papers every week.
September of Year 6	Move to 3 to 4 hours a week. This is the point to begin proper timed work. Start with section timings rather than full mocks if stamina is still developing. Review mistakes carefully: was the problem knowledge, vocabulary, method, or rushing?
October of Year 6	Maintain 4 hours a week if your child is coping well. Sit regular timed papers or paper sections, but leave space for teaching between them. Interview confidence can start here too: gentle conversation about books, interests, school life and independent thinking.
November of Year 6	Keep practice sharp, not exhausting. One timed mock or substantial mixed paper each week is usually enough, with targeted correction sessions. Prioritise sleep, routines and confidence. Do not keep introducing lots of new material at the last minute.
Final 1 to 2 weeks	Taper slightly. Use short refreshers, mental maths, vocabulary review, reading and a couple of light reasoning sets. The goal now is calm recall and steady pace.

If your child is busy and doing well at school, consistency matters more than volume. Three purposeful sessions a week beat long, tiring weekend marathons.

Subject by subject: what to practise

English

Prepare for both comprehension and writing. In comprehension, practise retrieving evidence, explaining vocabulary in context, making simple inferences and commenting on tone or effect. In writing, focus on planning quickly, staying on task, using accurate punctuation, and writing in clear paragraphs. Encourage your child to read broadly and discuss what they notice about character, viewpoint and language.

Useful habits include annotating short passages, summarising paragraphs in one sentence, and editing one piece of writing a week for punctuation and word choice. Accuracy matters just as much as flair.

Maths

For Maths, aim for secure Key Stage 2 fluency plus comfort with unfamiliar word problems. Regular practice should include arithmetic accuracy, fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio, perimeter and area, averages, simple algebraic thinking and multi-step problem solving. Timed practice is helpful later because able children can still lose marks through slow working or avoidable slips.

Ask your child to explain methods aloud. That often reveals whether they truly understand place value, operations and problem structure, or whether they are guessing from surface clues.

Verbal Reasoning

Verbal Reasoning usually rewards vocabulary, pattern recognition and careful reading of instructions. Practice often includes synonyms, antonyms, letter codes, word relationships, sequences and logic-based tasks. Build a notebook of unfamiliar words and revisit it weekly.

The biggest gains usually come from learning the recurring question types and then improving speed without sacrificing accuracy. Short, frequent practice works well here.

Non-Verbal Reasoning

Non-Verbal Reasoning commonly tests visual patterns and spatial logic, such as series, analogies, rotations, reflections, codes and shape combinations. Many children improve significantly once they learn to look methodically for movement, shading, number of sides, position and symmetry.

Use brief sets at first and encourage your child to describe what changes from one figure to the next. That spoken reasoning helps turn a vague hunch into a dependable method.

Because More House uses a consortium-set paper, always check the latest published guidance before the exam year for the exact balance of subjects and any format updates.

Practice papers and mock exams

Practice papers are most useful when they are part of a feedback loop, not just a score-chasing exercise. Start with untimed familiarisation so your child learns each question type calmly. Move on to timed sections, then occasional full papers once stamina is ready.

A good routine looks like this:

sit one paper or section under sensible conditions;
mark it carefully;
sort mistakes into knowledge gaps, misunderstood instructions, weak timing or careless errors;
reteach the weak area;
repeat a similar set later to check improvement.

Try not to use every paper too early. Save some for the final stretch when timing and composure matter most.

Use these ElevenReady resources as part of your preparation:

Free More House School practice papers (one per tested subject, with answers): /schools/more-house-school-mock-tests
The More House School 11+ guide (format, catchment, dates): /schools/more-house-school
Free email alerts for this school's key dates: /school-alerts?school=more-house-school

If you book a mock exam elsewhere, choose one for confidence-building and timing practice rather than pressure. The best mocks help children learn how to settle quickly, keep going after a hard question and recover concentration between sections.

On the day

Keep the morning simple and predictable. Lay out clothes, stationery if needed, travel details and any confirmation email the night before. Aim to arrive in good time without making the day feel dramatic.

Before the test, remind your child of a few practical habits:

listen carefully to instructions, especially where answer formats differ;
if one question feels hard, move on and come back if allowed;
watch the time, but do not obsess over it;
check answers for slips if there is spare time;
treat each section as a fresh start.

For More House specifically, remember that the written exam is only one part of the admissions process. A calm, courteous and engaged approach across the whole day matters. If there is an interview or later Selection Day, your child does not need rehearsed speeches; she just needs to listen well, answer honestly and show interest in learning.

The most helpful parental job on the day is emotional steadiness. Keep praise focused on effort and composure rather than guessing outcomes in the car afterwards.

After the exam: results, allocation and appeals

At More House, the process continues after the consortium paper. For the latest published cycle, candidates who progressed were invited to a Selection Day in January, with offers following in February and acceptances due by early March.

Because this is an independent school, the process is different from local-authority secondary allocation. Families apply directly to the school, and the school makes its own offer decisions under its admissions procedure. There is no state-school style national offer day for this application route.

If your child is not offered a place, the next steps depend on the school’s own procedure. Independent schools may offer a waiting list or explain whether further movement is possible, but arrangements vary from school to school. If you need clarity, ask admissions directly and politely for the position in that particular cycle.

We did not find a publicly stated More House pass mark, rank threshold or score release model for the consortium paper. So rather than waiting for a particular numerical benchmark, parents should focus on the school’s communications about whether their child is being invited to the next stage and when a final decision will be issued.

What has changed recently

The most important recent confirmed point is that More House is using a London 11+ Consortium entrance paper for Year 7 admissions, with the school’s own selection event, interview and school reference still forming part of the process. We also found published cycle dates for registration, Selection Day, offers and acceptances on the school’s admissions information.

We found a separate scholarships page with date references that appear older or cycle-specific and which do not line up neatly with the main admissions timeline. Parents should therefore rely on the main admissions page first and confirm any scholarship assessment dates directly with the school.

Other than that, we did not find any clearly announced official change in the last two years to catchment, published place numbers or a published pass mark for More House Year 7 entry.

Frequently asked questions

Does More House School have a catchment area for 11+?

No. It is an independent school, so there is no catchment area for Year 7 entry.

What subjects should my child prepare for?

Prepare for Maths, English, Verbal Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning. More House uses a London 11+ Consortium paper, so check the school’s latest guidance for the exact subject mix in your child’s year.

Is the 11+ exam the only thing More House looks at?

No. More House also uses a selection event, interview and school reference as part of Year 7 admissions.

When do registrations usually close?

For the currently published cycle, the registration deadline was 6 November 2026. For later entry years, check the school’s admissions page as soon as the new cycle opens.

Does More House publish a pass mark?

We did not find a published pass mark or score threshold for More House Year 7 entry. If you want the latest detail, check the admissions page or contact the school directly.

How much should a Year 5 child do each week?

For most children, 1 to 2 hours a week at the start of Year 5, rising to 3 to 4 hours a week by the autumn of Year 6, is realistic and sustainable.

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Sources

More House School – Joining More House: More House is an independent day school for girls; Year 7 applicants sit the London 11+ Consortium examination; admissions also include a selection event, interview and school reference; Years 7 to 13 fees are £11,670 per term including VAT.
London 11+ Consortium: More House is part of the London 11+ Consortium; consortium-set paper context for Year 7 admissions.

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Written by ElevenReady from the school's published information and reviewed by a person before publishing. Last reviewed 4 October 2026. Exam arrangements change. Check the school's admissions page for the current year.