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Common Entrance – a brief overview

Common Entrance – a brief overview. Background. Set up more than 100 years ago as a shared exam to simplify entry from prep school to public school Now administered by Independent Schools Examinations Board ( www.iseb.co.uk )

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Common Entrance – a brief overview

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  1. Common Entrance – a brief overview

  2. Background • Set up more than 100 years ago as a shared exam to simplify entry from prep school to public school • Now administered by Independent Schools Examinations Board (www.iseb.co.uk ) • Used in 2017 by 180 senior schools as their standard entrance exam for 6,385 pupils from 260 prep schools

  3. Swanbourne House Policy • Our curriculum shaped towards CE • Scholarship stream cover the course more quickly and move beyond • All children in CE classes will sit practice/mock papers in November and February of Top Year and final papers in May/June

  4. Practical Arrangements • Each school has its own admissions process • Pre-tests lead to an offer of a place conditional on passing CE • CE is sat at Swanbourne, but then marked by the senior schools • ISEB produce mark schemes, but marking does vary between schools

  5. Practical Arrangements • Final entry for CE is 1st March in Top Year (SHS must inform ISEB of the destination school for each pupil and papers to be sat)

  6. Schools regularly entered for Schools for whom CE is part of the main entrance process: • Uppingham • Bloxham • Stowe • Radley • St Edward’s, Oxford • Rugby • Repton • Oundle • Cheltenham College Schools for whom CE will be used only for setting purposes: • Bedford • Bedford Modern • Akeley Wood

  7. Dates • Dates in Summer Term 2018 are: • Listening/speaking papers: w/b 14th May • Mental Maths, French Listening, French Speaking • Written papers: Tuesday 5th June to Friday 8th June

  8. Results • Sent to school by Thursday 14th June; given to children on Friday on return from Leavers’ Trip • Any problems notified to Headmaster by Monday or Tuesday • Each school has its own way of marking – some give grades, some marks – not worth comparing results • Feedback to the children, indication of setting

  9. Subjects • Compulsory subjects are English, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics • French, History, Geography and RS are optional but all Swanbourne pupils take them (apart from in exceptional circumstances) • Most Swanbourne pupils sit Latin; Swanbourne pupils have also in recent years taken Spanish and Ancient Greek

  10. Papers • English: Two papers testing reading and writing skills (Paper 1: prose comprehension and practical writing; Paper 2: poetry comprehension and creative writing) • Maths: Paper 1 Non-calculator; Paper 2 Calculator; mental paper • Science: separate papers in Biology, Chemistry and Physics • French: Reading/Writing paper; Speaking assessment; Listening test

  11. Projects • Geography field project – completed in Top Year based on trip in September • RS research project – begun in 11s • Both projects need to be completed during Spring Term of Top Year

  12. Tiered papers • Higher and lower papers in English, Maths, Science, French and Latin • Designed to allow access to a wide range of pupils • BUT many schools will not accept the lower levels • A FEW schools require the higher levels

  13. Tiered papers (cont’d) • All Swanbourne pupils have taken Level 2 (higher) in English, Science and French • Maths: Three levels – Swanbourne pupils have taken Level 2 (standard) and Level 3 (higher) • Latin: Most pupils will take Level 2, some will go on to Level 3

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