Hurstpierpoint College

To make your child eligible for a place at Hurst Senior School, parents must complete the application form as early as possible and return it back to Admissions and settle the registration fee of £100. It will only reserve a slot for your child but does not guarantee a place. They encourage to enrol the candidate three years prior to the date of entry.

Registered candidates will be asked to take the ISEB Common Pre-test online in Year 6.

About the ISEB Common Pre-test

The tests take about two-and-a-half hours to complete (English 25 minutes, mathematics 50 minutes, non-verbal reasoning 32 minutes, verbal reasoning 36 minutes) and can be taken together or at separate times, either in the candidate’s own school or at the senior school for which he or she is entered

ISEB Pre-Test Format: 

The test is taken on a computer and consists of multiple-choice questions. It is broken down into four parts: 

1. English – 25 minutes(reading comprehension, sentence completion, spelling and punctuation) 
2. Mathematics – 50 minutes(in line with Year 5 of the UK National Curriculum) 
3. Non-Verbal Reasoning – 32 minutes(shape analogies, classes like, horizontal codes) 
4. Verbal Reasoning – 36 minutes(common words, antonyms, word combinations, letter transfer and number codes)