Exam Board Guide
GL Assessment is used by more grammar and selective schools than any other provider. Here's everything you need to know — and how Leo prepares your child for it.
What is GL Assessment?
GL Assessment exams are multiple-choice with strict time limits. Tests are typically taken on paper with separate answer sheets. Children mark answers by circling or shading letters — a skill worth practising in itself.
GL papers typically run 45–50 minutes per paper, with separate timed sections. Speed matters — children must answer approximately one question per minute. Leo builds this time-management instinct through timed practice.
How Leo prepares your child
Leo includes dedicated GL Assessment practice papers styled exactly like the real thing — same question types, same timing, same multiple-choice format.
Leo covers all 21 GL verbal reasoning question types, from letter codes to number series.
Sessions simulate real GL timing so children aren't surprised by the pace on exam day.
Questions start accessible and increase in difficulty — exactly as GL papers do.
Leo identifies which GL question types your child finds hardest and focuses there.
"In GL verbal reasoning, practise each question type separately until it feels automatic. There are 21 types — master them one by one and the paper becomes manageable."
Subjects breakdown
Arithmetic, fractions, sequences, geometry, word problems
Comprehension, grammar, punctuation, vocabulary
21 question types — codes, analogies, sequences, synonyms
Shape series, matrices, rotations, odd one out