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Pangbourne College Year 9 activities and assessment morning (sat in Year 6)

Pangbourne College’s 13+ entrance test is built on the ISEB Common Pre-Test, taken online. Which parts it tests is not published.

Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 9 in September 2029: sat in November 2026.

Pangbourne College · Co-educational independent school · ReadingAdmissions (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 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

    For Year 9 in September 2029, sat in Year 6. Source
    Mid-November of Year 6; registration closes end of September 2026. Late applications (e.g. for September 2027) considered if places remain.

  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 school has not said which parts it sets; these are the ISEB Common Pre-Test’s four: English, maths, verbal and non-verbal reasoning.

  • 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. The plan works to November of Year 6; until the school publishes the day for your child’s year, that date is an estimate.

Not covered

Verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning 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 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 Source
How it is taken
Online. Source
What it tests
Not found on the pages read: the school names the ISEB Common Pre-Test but not which parts it sets. 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
Observed team activities, short online assessment and school reports. Source
Practice and familiarisation
None published. Source
No preparation or tutoring required.
Interview
Not found on the pages read. Source

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. Year 9 Admissions Process | Pangbourne College checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “There will be an activities and assessment morning that takes place in mid-November in the first term when your child is in Year 6. ... The closing date for registration is at the end of September, three years prior to entry (Autumn term of Year 6). ... The morning will also include a short online assessment.”

  2. https://www.pangbourne.com/userfiles/pangbournecollegemvc/documents/Admission%20dates/Year%209%202027%20-%20Key%20Admission%20Dates%20(1).pdf checked 22 September 2026
    The page’s words

    “Parents/Guardians register their child with ISEB to take the Common Pre-Test”

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