(in the UK) an examination taken at the age of 11–12 to determine the type of secondary school a child should enter.
〈主史〉（英国对十一二岁儿童进行的）升学甄别考试
Example sentencesExamples
And when I passed my eleven-plus I realised that history was also written by people who actually existed.
There may be more selection in schools now than when we first came to office, but never mind, we'll scrap the eleven-plus.
When I passed my eleven-plus, she dragged me up to school, no bus fares, we had to walk.
The old eleven-plus put tremendous strain on middle-class families: success was thought essential, but failure meant a public school which most could not afford or, worse, the secondary modern.