GL Assessment NI Transfer Test Dates 2022

The Post Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) is a private limited company made up of a group of schools which use academic selection to admit their year 8 students. The PPTC includes Catholic grammar schools, Non- denominational grammar schools and Integrated schools in its membership. In 2022 the PPTC is using the GL Assessment NI Transfer Test.

The GL test will be held on Saturday 12th November in 2022. You will choose which school you wish your child to sit the test when registering for the test.

Contingency date (if your child is unable to attend the test on 12th November)- Saturday 10th December.

When does Registration for the GL Assessment Transfer Test Open in 2022?

Registration opens on the 4th May 2022 and closes on the 23rd September 2022.

For a list of the 34 schools that will be acting as Assessment Centres in 2022 please scroll down this page.

You can download a registration form for the 2022 GL Assessment NI test here. Please download the form and fill it in. Return to the form to the school where you wish your child to sit the test by Friday 23rd September.

For more details please visit the PPTCNI website.

Please visit our GL Assessment Practice Paper 2022 page to purchase practice papers.

Buy GL Style Multiple Choice Practice Papers

All our GL Practice Papers were updated to the 2022 specification and use the PPTC multiple choice format. They include pupil marking sheets to replicate how the pupils record their answers in the real tests.

Available in PDF or printed (free postage).
We have Staged Difficulty Practice Papers available to help ease your child into practice papers gently.

Please visit our GL Assessment Practice Paper 2022 page to purchase practice papers.

GL 2022 Specification

To take account of the considerable disruption caused by Covid-19 to children’s education over the past two years, the PPTCNI have made changes to the assessment in 2022.

GL English

Pupils will answer 50 questions in 50 minutes
The length of the paper has been reduced.
2 comprehensions with 16 questions each (poetry, fiction and non-fiction) with A, B, C, D, E options
9 punctuation and 9 spelling errors questions with A, B, C, D, N options