Children taking the delayed 11-Plus exams this year will get their results at the end of November.

Secondary transfer tests — also known as ‘11 plus’ exams — decide whether children will study at one of the county’s grammar schools or whether they will study at an ‘all-ability’ school once they reach secondary school age.

Exams for 2021 secondary school entry were due to be held in the second week of September but after guidance was published by the Department for Education, they were pushed back.

Children from out of the county will take the 11-Plus between October 27 and 30, while children from Bucks primary schools and partner schools will take the test between November 2 and 5.

The results will be revealed on November 30.

Children will take the practice test before the transfer test, with one day in between.

In a letter to parents confirming the exam dates, chairman of The Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools (TGBS), a company set up by the 13 grammar schools in the county to manage and administer secondary transfer testing, Mark Sturgeon said: "As stated previously our priority is to keep everyone as safe as possible during testing and to make the process as manageable as we possibly can for the schools administering the tests.

"As in all years if a child is ill on the day they are due to be tested, they will have the opportunity to take the test at another time when they are well.

"This year that will also be the case if a child has to self-isolate or shield."

He added that the later testing dates mean parents need to submit applications for their preferred secondary and grammar schools before the results of the tests are known.

The deadline for expressing preferences in October 31, but this year, Buckinghamshire Council is allowing parents until December 10 to amend or add preferences.

The 11-Plus was thrown into doubt this year by the coronavirus outbreak, which "severely disrupted" the learning of pupils across the country.

But it has not been plain sailing for the two years before this year's testing.

In 2018, a technical blunder saw some pupils allocated an extra five minutes for one of the two papers sat.

And in 2019, there were errors in two questions in the verbal skills paper that made them impossible to answer - leading angry parents to brand the exams "shambolic".

TGBS and the test provider GL Assessments agreed that all children would be given a mark for each of the two "erroneous" questions.