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Downe House 11+ Assessment Day and ISEB Common Pre-Test

Downe House’s 11+ entrance test is built on the ISEB Common Pre-Test. It tests maths, English, verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and a piece of writing.

Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 7 in September 2027: sat in November 2026 (inferred).

Downe House · Girls’ independent school · ThatchamAdmissions (the school’s website)

Checked against the sources below on 22 September 2026. Dates and arrangements change: the school’s own admissions page is always the final word.

How Remelia helps with this test

What Remelia covers, in full

Covered

  • Maths
  • English
  • Reading
  • The last fortnight

In part

  • The writing

Not covered

  • Verbal reasoning
  • Non-verbal reasoning
  • The interview
  • The test itself
  • Printable English papers

Each exam plan is dated from your child’s year group: Remelia works to the sitting for the September they start Year 7. For a school without a plan, choose “Not sure yet” and Remelia teaches the Key Stage 2 curriculum with no exam date.

Key dates

When it is sat.

The dates the school has published, in order. Where a day is not yet published, the guide says so.

  1. November 2026 Inferred

    For Year 7 in September 2027, sat in Year 6. Inferred: the page does not give this date in so many words. Source
    Assessment Day in the autumn term of Year 6 (day-place applicants together in November); ISEB Pre-Test at the current school by 30 November 2026 (overseas by mid-October). Offers by end of December 2026. Academic Scholarship papers in January. Month from the UK ISEB deadline (30 November of Year 6).

  2. Not yet published

    For Year 7 in September 2028, sat in Year 6. The date is not on the pages read. Source

Remelia and this exam

What Remelia covers, and what it does not.

Choose the school when you set your child up, or later in Controls, and this is the plan.

What Remelia covers

Key Stage 2 maths and English to Year 6, counted towards the exam; the writing, in part.

  • Maths

    The Key Stage 2 objectives for Years 3 to 6, in the order your child’s school teaches them, counted towards the exam.

  • English

    Grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary questions most days, Years 3 to 6, counted towards the exam.

  • Reading

    From the autumn of Year 5, a weekly reading day: one unseen passage and 9 questions on it, from a bank of 130 passages.

  • The writing In part

    Short timed pieces that a grown-up marks at home with ticks: one a fortnight from the spring of Year 4, one a week from the autumn of Year 5. They practise part of what the exam’s writing asks; they are not its paper, and they are not counted towards the exam.

  • The last fortnight

    In the last 14 days before the exam date the plan works to, sessions are shorter and nothing new is introduced. The plan works to November of Year 6, a month inferred from the pages; until the school publishes the day for your child’s year, that date is an estimate.

Not covered

Verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, the interview and the test’s own format.

  • Verbal reasoning

    Remelia does not teach verbal reasoning.

  • Non-verbal reasoning

    Remelia does not teach non-verbal reasoning.

  • The interview

    A conversation with the school, which an app cannot practise.

  • The test itself

    Remelia practises the content, not the ISEB Common Pre-Test’s own screens, papers or timings: the familiarisation materials, where there are any, show those.

  • Printable English papers

    The printable practice papers in the parents’ app are maths only.

The exam

What the school says.

Each line links to the page it comes from. A line marked Inferred is read from the page, which does not say it in so many words; the note under it says how.

Who sets it
ISEB Common Pre-Test. Source
How it is taken
Not found on the pages read. Source
What it tests
Maths, English, verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and a piece of writing. Source
The papers
ISEB Common Pre-Test, multiple choice; Creative or persuasive writing, a written piece. Source
How places are decided
Unconditional offers on strong ISEB (or alternative) scores, assessment day performance and Head’s recommendation. Source
Practice and familiarisation
Nothing found on the pages read. Source
Interview
Yes. Source
Every girl is interviewed by the Headmistress.

Sources

Where every line comes from.

Every page our research read for this exam, with the date it was checked; under each, the words it quoted from it.

  1. Admissions Process | Downe House School checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “For 11+ and 12+ candidates, assessment will take place one year prior to entry and girls are invited to attend an Assessment Day which takes place in the Michaelmas (Autumn) Term ... Every girl has an interview with the Headmistress, completes a piece of creative or persuasive writing and has a tour of the School”

    “Following the 11+ and 12+ Assessment days, girls are asked to sit the ISEB Common Pre-Test at their current school ... consists of multiple-choice tests in Mathematics, English, Verbal and Non-verbal reasoning. ... UK candidates are asked to complete the test by 30 November at the latest.”

    “Successful candidates will be offered places on the basis of strong scores in the ISEB Common Pre-Test, or alternative test, good performance during the assessment day and recommendation from their current Head teacher. Offers will be made by the end of December. ... Approximately 55 girls enter Downe House aged 11+ each year”

    “Every girl has an interview with the Headmistress, completes a piece of creative or persuasive writing and has a tour of the School”

    “UK candidates are asked to complete the test by 30 November at the latest.”

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