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Independent School 13+ Entry (Common Entrance & Scholarship)

Profile for independent schools whose main entry is at 13+ (Year 9), modelled in two stages. Stage A - selection at 11+: at most of these schools the substantive decision is made in Year 6 (occasionally Year 7) through a pre-assessment - most often the ISEB Common Pre-Tests, which Athena's iseb-common-pre-tests question pool serves directly; Quest Assessments at Uppingham; the school's own tests (Dulwich's bespoke papers, Rugby's own online assessment day, Winchester's General Ability Testing); or reports and references alone (Oundle) - together with interviews, school reports and, at some schools, the school's own written papers. Stage B - confirmation at 13+: the Year 6 offer is resolved in Year 8 by a typed condition that varies by school and is stored on each route as stage_b_condition: ce_standard (a Common Entrance standard set by the school itself - ISEB publishes no pass mark; published percentages exist only at Bradfield and Uppingham, both 55%), own_exam (the school's own Year 8 examinations), report_only (continued progress plus a final school report/reference), unconditional (the offer made in Year 6 is final), or deferred_selection (a genuine second selection in Year 8). Each school's routes also carry its registration deadline (register_by) where the school publishes one - several close in Year 5. Athena's question bank targets the Stage A pre-assessment; Common Entrance at 13+ is KS3-level written content and is not yet in the bank.