Schools using 13+ Pre-test
Schools using the 13 Plus Pre-test
Below you will find a list of schools that currently require applicants to sit the Pre-Test
The ISEB Common Pre-Test is sat in Year 6 or Year 7, when the student is between 10 and 12. The ISEB has commissioned GL Assessment to create the test. All questions are multiple choice. Students are assessed in English, Maths, Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning.
At the time of writing, the test is used by the following schools:
- Abbot’s Hill School
- Alleyn’s School
- Ampleforth College
- Ardingly College
- Bedford School
- Beneden School
- Berkhamstead Senior School
- Bloxham School
- Bradfield College
- Brighton College
- Bryanston School
- Canford School
- Catherham School
- Channing School
- Caterham School
- Charterhouse
- Cheltenham College
- City of London School
- Cranleigh School
- Dauntsey’s School
- Downe House School
- Downside School
- Dulwich College
- Eaton Square Upper School
- Epsom College
- Eton College
- Felsted School
- Francis Holland School
- Freemen’s School
- Fulham Senior School
- Gateways School
- Godolphin and Latymer School
- Haberdashers’ Monmouth Schools
- Haileybury School
- Hampton School
- Harrodian Senior School
- Harrow School
- Headington School
- Holmwood House Senior School
- Hull Collegiate School
- Hurstpierpoint College
- James Allen’s Girls’ School
- Kew House School
- King Edward’s School Witley
- King’s College
- King’s College School
- King’s School Rochester
- Knightsbridge Senior School
- Lancing College
- Latymer Upper School
- Leeds Grammar School
- Leys School
- Lord Wandsworth College
- Maida Vale School
- Marlborough College
- Mayfield School
- Merchant Taylor’s Boy’s School
- Mill Hill School
- New Hall School
- Northwood College
- Northwood Senior School
- Notting Hill and Ealing School
- Oratory School
- Palmers Green High School
- Pangbourne College
- Putney High School
- Queen’s College
- Radley College
- Reed’s School
- Royal Grammar School
- Royal Hospital School
- Royal Russell School
- S. Anselm’s College
- Seaford College
- South Hampstead High School
- St. Albans High School
- St. Benedict’s School
- St. Dunstan’s College
- St. Edward’s School
- St. Helen’s School
- St. Mary’s School
- St Paul’s School
- St Swithun’s School
- Stowe School
- Streatham & Clapham High School
- Sutton Valence School
- Thomas’s Battersea Square
- Tonbridge School
- Tormead School
- Trinity School
- University College School
- Uppingham School
- Wellington College
- Westminster School
- Wetherby Senior School
- Whitgift School
- Wimbledon High School
- Winchester College
- Woldingham School
- Worth School
(source: iseb.co.uk)
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