More than 3,000 children are getting ready to sit the Medway Test which will determine which secondary school they attend.

They will sit the exams tomorrow, Tuesday, and Wednesday, although some children may opt to sit the exams on Saturday, alongside pupils who don’t live in the Towns.

There will be 1,999 local children sitting the exam and 1,065 from outside the authority.

The test is made up of three papers, maths and verbal reasoning, which are multiple choice and an extended writing paper, which usually involves writing an essay.

Last year 1,126 children passed the test.

The results will be published on Friday, September 30, and those who registered online will receive an email after 4pm with the results, and those who registered on paper will be sent a letter which will be posted on the same day.

A Medway Council spokesperson said: “The children have been prepared for all of the papers, which are based on the national curriculum.”

The results of the Medway Test are not transferable to any other local authority.

Some pupils may have already have taken the Kent test.

The Medway Test comes at a time when controversial plans for new grammar schools across the country were revealed.

The issue of allowing new selected schools has taken centre stage in the debate about the government’s education agenda after Prime Minister Theresa May hinted she may be prepared to lift the ban.

The news comes after Ofsted head Sir Michael Wilshaw said Kent’s selective system was evidence that grammars did not help brighter children from poorer backgrounds.

Sir Michael said the idea a new generation of grammars would help poorer children was “palpable tosh and nonsense”.

In a speech to a conference, he said: “I appreciate many grammar schools do a fine job in equipping their students with an excellent education. But we all know their record of admitting children from non-middle-class backgrounds is pretty woeful.”