Year 7 applications: The Year 7 Assessments take place in the November preceding Year 7 entry (i.e. while the student is in Year 6). Applicants will have a short interview with one of the Senior Team and will also be required to sit tests set by Box Hill School in Maths and English. The Maths test is based on the school syllabus covered in Year 6 and lasts 1 hour. The English test includes a reading comprehension task and a piece of creative writing and lasts 45 minutes.
Year 9 applications: The Year 9 Assessments take place in the January preceding Year 9 entry (i.e. while the student is in Year 8). Applicants will have a short interview with one of the Senior Team and will also be required to sit tests set by Box Hill School in Maths and English. The Maths test is based on the school syllabus covered in Year 8 and lasts 45 minutes. The English test includes reading comprehension task and a piece of creative writing and lasts 1 hour. Please note that Year 9 assessment decisions are not based on the applicant’s performance in Common Entrance examinations.
Year 12 applications: They welcome applications into Year 12 onto either the A Level or the International Baccalaureate Programme. Registered applicants are invited to Box Hill School for an interview. Offers are based upon the applicant’s interview, recent school reports and GCSE predictions.
Other applications: Applicants will be invited to Box Hill School to sit tests set by Box Hill School in Maths and English and will have a short interview with one of the Senior Team.
General information: During the assessment process, consideration is given to the applicant’s entrance test results, interview, recent school reports, academic progress at current school, grade predictions and other strengths – whether inside or outside school life. This fits with the Box Hill School ethos that education is about nurturing the whole child. Please note that they expect all students within Years 7 – 9 to study two Modern Foreign Languages. Additionally, they require all students, irrespective of age, to be fully independent learners within the classroom.
Overseas: All international students will be interviewed either in person or via Skype and will normally be required to take tests set by Box Hill School in Maths and English (these can be taken remotely). They always welcome visits to Box Hill School from international applicants and their families when you will meet with one of the Senior Team and enjoy a guided tour of the school.
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