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The Oratory School 13+ (ISEB Common Pre-Test and Assessment Day in Year 6)

The Oratory School’s 13+ entrance test is built on the ISEB Common Pre-Test, taken online. It tests maths, English, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning.

Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 9 in September 2029: the date is not yet published.

The Oratory School · Co-educational independent school · OxfordshireAdmissions (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

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 at the current school, usually in the autumn term of Year 6 (can be taken until 30 June), then Assessment Day; provisional offer.

  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.

  • 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 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 Inferred
Online. Source
What it tests Inferred
Maths, English, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning. 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
Provisional offer after Pre-Test and interview; firm offer after Academic Scholarship or Common Entrance in Year 8. Source
Practice and familiarisation
Nothing found on the pages read. Source
Interview
Yes. Source
Interview with a member of the Senior Leadership Team.

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. Private secondary school Reading - 13 Plus Entry checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Registered pupils will be invited to take part in the ISEB Common Pre-Tests, which will take place at your child’s school when they are in Year 6. This is usually in the Autumn Term but can be taken up until 30 June. ... Please note that if your child is not taking the ISEB, we can arrange for a CAT4 to be completed. All pupils applying to The Oratory School are invited to attend our Assessment Day after sitting the Common Pre-Test. This includes an interview with a member of the Senior Leade...”

    “A provisional offer is given after the Pre-Test and interview. A firm offer will be given after completion of the Academic Scholarship or Common Entrance. ... ISEB Common Entrance should be completed in June of Year 8.”

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