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Downe House 13+ ISEB Common Pre-Test and Assessment Day (Year 6)

Downe House’s 13+ entrance test is built on the ISEB Common Pre-Test, taken online. 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 9 in September 2029: the date is not yet published.

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. Not yet published

    For Year 9 in September 2029, sat in Year 6. The date is not on the pages read. Source
    ISEB Pre-Test October/November 2026 (overseas by mid-October); assessment day later in the autumn term; offers by end of December 2026.

  2. Not yet published

    For Year 9 in September 2030, 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. No month is published, so the plan works to November of Year 6, when most ISEB Common Pre-Test tests are sat: 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
Online. Source
What it tests
Maths, English, verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning and a piece of writing. Source
The papers
Not found on the pages read: how long it is, how many papers and what kind of questions. Source
How places are decided
Pre-Test scores select for the assessment day; unconditional offers on scores, assessment day and Head’s recommendation. Source
Practice and familiarisation
Nothing found on the pages read. Source
Interview
Yes. Source
Interview with the Headmistress on the assessment day.

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 13+ candidates, assessment takes place in the Michaelmas (Autumn) term when pupils are in year 6. First, they are asked to sit the ISEB Common Pre-Test at their current school or as early as their school or test centre allows in October/November. ... Following strong scores in the test, pupils may then be invited to an assessment day at Downe House later in the term with places offered by the end of December. The Assessment day includes an interview with the Headmistress, a collaborative ...”

    “We ask 13+ candidates to sit the 13+ Common Entrance examination in June of year 8 for setting purposes only. ... 45 girls enter Downe House aged 13+ each year.”

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