GL Assessment Transfer Test 2022

GL Assessment 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 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 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

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

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

GL Maths

  • Pupils will answer 45 questions in 45 minutes
  •  A, B, C, D, E options
  • Some maths topics have been removed from the 2022 specification

See our blog on the GL 2022 Specification for more details on the maths topics that have been removed from this year’s test.

List of GL Assessment Test Centres

Abbey Christian Brothers Grammar

Antrim Grammar School

Aquinas Diocesan Grammar School

Assumption Grammar School, Ballynahinch

Campbell College

Christian Brother’s Grammar School

Dominican College Belfast

Hunterhouse College

Lagan College

Loreto Grammar School, Omagh

Lumen Christi College, Derry

Mount Lourdes Grammar School

Our Lady and St. Patrick’s College, Knock

Our Lady’s Grammar School

St Columb’s Grammar School

Rainey Endowed, Magherafelt

St. Louis Grammar School, Ballymena

Rathmore Grammar School, Belfast

St Colman’s Grammar School

Scared Heart Grammar School

St Columb’s Grammar School

Slemish College, Ballymena

St. Joesph’s Grammar School, Donaghmore

St. Patrick’s Academy, Dungannon

Thornhill College

St. Patrick’s Grammar School, Downpatrick

Victoria College, Belfast

St. Mary’s Grammar School, Magherafelt

Wallace High School

St. Louis’ Grammar School, Kilkeel

Wellington College, Belfast

St. Malachy’s College, Belfast

St. Mary’s Christian Brothers Grammar School

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