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Meaning of eleven plus | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

An examination formerly administered to all students in their final year of primary education, now used only in a few counties of England and Northern Ireland.

UK

Examples

“The fact that late developers emerged, ripe for grammar school education, having 'failed' the eleven plus test, was embarrassing.”
“As one vociferous eleven-plus critic put it, when Winston Churchill was a boy he produced nothing more than "a large blob of ink" on his entrance exam.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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