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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Nicola
11 Plus, 13 Plus, Other School Entrance, University Admissions and English
Nicola is a qualified and experienced practising English teacher, with extensive experience teaching English at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 in leading independent and grammar schools. She has a strong academic background in English, with a First Class Degree (awarded the School of English best final year performance) and a Masters with Distinction, which was obtained through the prestigious AHRC research funding
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11 Plus, 13 Plus, Other School Entrance, University Admissions, English and SEN
Joanna read English Language and Literature at Durham University (BA Hons), holds a Masters in Education from Manchester Metropolitan University and has been a GCSE and A level examiner. Joanna has extensive teaching and tutoring experience: she been Head of Department and Deputy Head (Academic), teaching English (English as a Second Language) and English literature in top tier UK and international schools for 30 years
Jeni
13 Plus, Other School Entrance, University Admissions, Biology, Chemistry, Maths, Physics and Science
Having studied Biological Sciences and gained her PGCE at King’s College London, Jeni has 25 years of teaching and tutoring experience: working across the globe in several international schools; teaching prep and secondary students Sciences and Maths; working in pastoral roles within boarding houses; and privately tutoring children in family homes.
Most recently, Jeni spent six years as Head of Biology at an award-winning London school, delivering A-level Biology to over 100 students each year to raise achievement to exceptionally high levels of 73% A*/A (2022) across the cohort
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11 Plus, 13 Plus, Other School Entrance, University Admissions, Biology, Chemistry, English, Maths, Physics and Science
Samuel-Louis is an experienced, engaging and extremely well-qualified teacher and tutor. Samuel-Louis trained to teach at the world-leading UCL Institute of Education and has Masters degrees in Physics, Maths and Theoretical Physics and is currently studying for a PhD in Mathematics
David
7 Plus, 8 Plus, 11 Plus, 13 Plus, Other School Entrance, English, Maths and SEN
David studied Music at York University during the years 1988 - 1991 before taking his PGCE at Leeds University, gaining qualified teaching status in 1992. He has worked in a range of schools ranging from traditional Prep schools, Grammar schools and a 2-16 through school