Bryanston School 13+ entrance exam
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Sources checked 22 September 2026; the school’s admissions page is the final word.
13+ For Year 9
The 13+ entrance test
Bryanston School’s 13+ entrance test is set by GL Assessment, taken online. It tests verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, spatial reasoning and maths.
Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 9 in September 2028: the date is not yet published.
Places: not published on the pages read.
When it is sat
Not yet published
For Year 9 in September 2027, sat in Year 6. The date is not on the pages read. Bryanston School
The process starts in Year 6; no fixed test date (CAT4 at the current school or arranged at Bryanston).Not yet published
For Year 9 in September 2028, sat in Year 6. The date is not on the pages read. Bryanston School
What the school says
- Who sets it
- GL Assessment. Bryanston School
- How it is taken
- Online. Bryanston School
- What it tests
- Verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, spatial reasoning and maths. Bryanston School
- The papers
- Not found on the pages read: how long it is, how many papers and what kind of questions. Bryanston School
CAT4 only. - How places are decided
- CAT4 plus an Imagine Day group assessment (communication, creative thinking, problem solving), which replaces an interview. Bryanston School
- Practice and familiarisation
- Nothing found on the pages read. Bryanston School
- Interview
- No. Bryanston School
The Imagine Day replaces the traditional interview.
How Remelia helps with the 13+
What Remelia practises for every GL plan, part by part, is on one page; this plan leaves out science, the writing and the interview. GL 11+ and 13+: what Remelia practises for 92 exams
Particular to this test
Covered
A reasoning test
Remelia reads the maths this test names as quantitative reasoning, the number part of a reasoning test, which it does not teach. Curriculum maths and English are kept up to the national standard beside the reasoning.
The last fortnight
No month is published, so the plan works to January of Year 6, when most GL Assessment tests are sat: an estimate.
Practice papers
GL-style papers in maths, English, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning; a GL-style spatial reasoning paper; and the maths and English papers that need no exam.
In part
The timed mock In part
Not in this exam’s mock: Quantitative reasoning (Remelia does not teach it); Spatial reasoning question types other than hidden shapes, and folding and punching paper (the real section may set them).
Spatial reasoning In part
Partly taught: hidden shapes, and folding and punching paper. The real section may set other types.
Not covered
Quantitative reasoning
Remelia does not teach quantitative reasoning.
Sources
Where every line comes from.
- How to Apply, Bryanston School checked 22 September 2026
The page’s words
“the admissions process commences when your child is in Year 6 for Year 9 entry. ... All registered pupils sit a GL Assessment CAT 4 test. There isn’t an Entrance Exam day ... An important element of our admissions process is our Imagine Day. These are group assessment days were children join us taking part in activities to assess their communication, creative thinking and problem solving skills. This assessment replaces the traditional interview.”
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