Merchiston Castle School 13+ entrance exam
Edinburgh.
Merchiston Castle School · EdinburghMerchiston Castle School: Admissions (the school’s website)
Sources checked 22 September 2026; the school’s admissions page is the final word.
13+ For S3
The 13+ entrance test
Merchiston Castle School’s 13+ entrance test is taken online; who sets it is not named on the pages read. The school is in Scotland. It tests maths, English and non-verbal reasoning.
Who sits it. Children applying for S3 in 2027: date not yet published.
Places: not published on the pages read.
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When it is sat
Not yet published
For S3 in 2027. The date is not on the pages read. Source
No fixed date published; assessments arranged per applicant.
What the school says
- Who sets it
- Not found on the pages read. Source
- How it is taken
- Online. Source
- What it tests
- Maths, English 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
- The test and an interview. Assessments, informal interview and school report. Source
Assessments, informal interview and school report. - Practice and familiarisation
- Nothing found on the pages read. Source
- Interview
- Yes. Source
Sources
Where every line comes from.
- How to Apply | Merchiston (Wayback) checked 22 September 2026
The page’s words
“Your son will sit online assessments in Maths, English and non verbal reasoning. He will also have an informal interview with staff and be asked to provide a recent school report. If your son is joining from a Prep School he can sit the Common Entrance Papers.”
“The main entry points are at age 7, 14 and 16, but you can apply for a place for your son to enter Merchiston at any point between the ages of 7 and 18, providing we have a place.”
“Your son will sit online assessments in Maths, English and non verbal reasoning.”
“online assessments in Maths, English and non verbal reasoning. He will also have an informal interview with staff”
“He will also have an informal interview with staff and be asked to provide a recent school report.”
“He will also have an informal interview with staff”
- Admissions, Merchiston Castle School checked 22 September 2026
- Admissions, Merchiston Castle School checked 22 September 2026
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