English

Noun

eleven plus ‎(plural eleven pluses)

1. (Britain) 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.
   • 1967, Robert John Montgomery, Examinations: An Account of Their Evolution as Administrative Devices in England

     The fact that late developers emerged, ripe for grammar school education, having 'failed' the eleven plus test, was embarrassing.

   • 2007, Stephen Murdoch, IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea

     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.