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The King’s School Canterbury: 13+ entrance exam
Co-educational independent school in Canterbury.
The King’s School Canterbury · Co-educational independent school · CanterburyAdmissions (the school’s website)
Sources checked 22 September 2026; the school’s admissions page is the final word.
13+ For Year 9
The 13+ entrance test
The King’s School Canterbury’s 13+ entrance test is built on the ISEB Common Pre-Test, taken online. It tests English, maths, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning.
Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 9 in September 2029: sat in February 2027.
Places: not published on the pages read.
When it is sat
February 2027
For Year 9 in September 2029, sat in Year 6. Source
ISEB Pre-Test in the autumn of Year 6; Experience Day in February of Year 6 (date not published); offers in March.
What the school says
- Who sets it
- ISEB Common Pre-Test. Source
- How it is taken Inferred
- Online. Source
The ISEB Pre-Test is online. - What it tests Inferred
- English, maths, 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
Papers not described on the page. - How places are decided
- ISEB Pre-Test, current school’s reference and the Experience Day. Source
- Practice and familiarisation
- Nothing found on the pages read. Source
- Interview Inferred
- No. Source
The prep-school route lists pre-test, reference and Experience Day; an interview is named only for the KEE route.
How Remelia helps with the 13+
What Remelia practises for every ISEB Pre-Test plan, part by part, is on one page; this plan leaves out the writing. Remelia for ISEB Pre-Test maths, English and reasoning tests
Particular to this test
The last fortnight
The plan works to February of Year 6; until the school publishes the day for your child’s year, that date is an estimate.
Sources
Where every line comes from.
- Applying to the Senior School, The King’s School, Canterbury checked 22 September 2026
The page’s words
“Pupils sit the ISEB Pre-Test at their current school in the Autumn Term of Year 6 and then, on the strength of those results, will be invited to King’s for an Experience Day in the February of Year 6. Offers are made in March of Year 6”
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