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Stowe School: 13+ entrance exam
Co-educational independent school in Buckingham.
Stowe School · Co-educational independent school · BuckinghamAdmissions (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
Stowe School’s 13+ entrance test is set by GL Assessment. It tests verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, maths and spatial reasoning.
Who sits it. Children in Year 6, for a place in Year 9 in September 2029: sat in October 2026.
Places: not published on the pages read.
Remelia and this test
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When it is sat
October 2026
For Year 9 in September 2029, sat in Year 6. Source
State and non-prep independent pupils sit CAT4 in October/November of Year 6 (first month given); interviews from September; day offers 31 January, boarding offers 1 March of Year 6. Registration recommended by December of Year 6 (no fixed deadline).
What the school says
- Who sets it
- GL Assessment. Source
- How it is taken
- Not found on the pages read. Source
- What it tests Inferred
- Verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, maths and spatial reasoning. Source
- The papers
- Not found on the pages read: how long it is, how many papers and what kind of questions. Source
Not described. - How places are decided
- The test and an interview. CAT4, interviews and prep-school reference; borderline candidates may be assessed further. Source
- Practice and familiarisation
- Nothing found on the pages read. Source
- Interview
- Yes. Source
Interviews with the Registrar and a Houseparent. - What has changed
- Stowe no longer uses the ISEB Pre-Tests for entry; it uses CAT4. Source
Sources
Where every line comes from.
- 13+ Admissions, Stowe checked 22 September 2026
The page’s words
“Stowe uses CAT4 Tests to assess academic ability and potential ... Those at a state or independent school will sit their tests in October/November of Year 6 ... We no longer use the ISEB Pre-Tests as a mean of entry.”
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