Example entrance test papers for year 10 English and maths, any ideas?

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DD sitting a rather last minute.com entrance to new school in 3 days for year 10 (sept), maths and English papers. Where can I source some examples or GCSE past papers? Havn't been told anymore than M & E being sat, what sort of English test will it be, any ideas? thanks

You can get past papers (and mark schemes) for GCSE on the Exam Boards' websites. Google OCR, AQA, Edexcel etc. Don't forget that there are two tiers of GCSE, foundation and higher, so choose appropriately.
There will be loads of study books (with answers!) in WHSmith and the like.

Should i be going for higher ones then?

Depends on your DD. The GCSE exams are aimed at pupils two years' older than she is: if she is confident then you could use the Higher papers to make sure that she really 'clears the hurdle', if her confidence is in danger of being knocked then be gentle with Foundation. But for any entrance exam, you don't want to aim at average-for-the-age; you want to aim higher than that.

Not sure if this helps as everyone is different but I gave DD year 9 a foundation GCSE paper last night she found it really easy, it?s basically just basic maths nothing too hard. The higher paper is much harder so I would start with the easy one first.

look on some independent school websites. lots of them have sample papers for 13+ entry... for instance city of london school here

You'll find sample entrance papers for 14-year-olds here, if you scroll down:

www.stedwards.oxon.sch.uk/exh-past-papers.html