Junior admissions: All registered children are invited to attend an assessment day during the Lent Term prior to September entry. Assessments are carried out online in verbal, numerical and non-verbal skills called InCAS tests. The day will also include an informal interview with the Head, Mr Whymark. Children are invited to attend lessons and activities when not sitting assessments.
Senior admissions: Entry assessments are carried out via the CAT4 online platform covering verbal and non-verbal reasoning. The computerised tests take just over 90 minutes.
Sixth Form admissions: All registered students for Year 12 entry in 2022/23 are invited to attend an interview with the Head of King’s Ely Senior, Vice Principal Academic, or The Principal. Predicted grades are requested from a student’s current school. Those students not following a British curriculum will be required to take assessments in English and Maths. The assessments can be taken remotely. Interviews can be carried out via Skype.
International programmes: In King’s Ely Junior, overseas students are required to sit entrance assessments in Mathematics and English (ESOL) and, if successful, they will also require an interview with the Head of King’s Ely Junior, which can be arranged via Skype. The Admissions team can email entrance assessments to either the pupil’s current school or to the office of an independent invigilator. Assessments should be taken under examination conditions. In King’s Ely Senior, overseas students are required to sit entrance assessments in Mathematics and English and, if successful, will also require an interview with the Vice Principal Academic.
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