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Admissions Process and Entry Requirements for Secondary Schools
If you choose to send your child to private school, you need to bear in mind that the admission process will not be quite as straightforward as...
All About Interview Coaching
P>Interviews can be a stressful part of the admissions process for independent schools. These usually occur in the last few weeks of January or early February, and tend...
Appealing Against a Decision
Thousands of parents and children each year find themselves disappointed when their children fail to receive an offer of a place at their first choice school. Some...
Applying to Universities: Oxbridge
What is Oxbridge?
The term 'Oxbridge' is used to refer to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Oxford and Cambridge are the oldest universities in the UK. They...
Deferring your Entry
When a student decides to take a year out between finishing school and starting university, there are two options. Firstly, a student can decide to submit a p...
Entry Barriers and Private Schools
P>All private schools have at least one entry barrier - school fees - and many have other barriers too, such as religion (in certain faith schools) and academic ability...
Entry Requirement to Elite Universities
The UK's top universities receive many times more applicants than available places on their most popular courses. This means they can demand...
Preparation for Entrance Exams
P>Interviews are almost always included in the application process for pupils to join a private school. Along with entrance exams and school reports, interviews form a...
Religious Schools and Entry Requirements
Where parents want their children to study at a religious school - often known as a 'faith school', which teach an agreed religious syllabus and...
Sitting Exams to Gain Entry into Private School
P>Entrance exams for private schools can inspire fear in a parent's heart, but becoming stressed about these exams will rub off on children, so...
What to Expect When Attending an Interview
P>While some independent schools ask their pupils to take one or more entrance exams to test their academic ability, all of those schools usually...
