All students are recommended the ISEB pre-test for potential entry to Marlborough College
Marlborough CollegeĀ is anĀ independentĀ boarding and day school inĀ Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Founded in 1843 for the sons of Church of England clergy, it is nowĀ co-educational.Ā
TheĀ Good Schools GuideĀ described Marlborough as a “famous, designer label, co-ed boarding school still riding high.”Ā The school is a member of theĀ G20 SchoolsĀ Group. A sister school inĀ Johor,Ā MalaysiaĀ opened in 2012.
Marlborough was, in 1968, the first major British independent boys’ school to allow girls into theĀ sixth form,Ā setting a trend that many other schools followed subsequently. The school became fully co-educational in 1989. The school has also been pioneering in other fields, making a major contribution to theĀ School Mathematics ProjectĀ (from 1961) and initiating the teaching of Business Studies atĀ A levelĀ (from 1968). In 1963 a group of boys, led by the future political biographerĀ Ben Pimlott, wrote a book,Ā Marlborough, an open examination written by the boys, describing life at the school. The writer and television criticĀ T.C. WorsleyĀ wrote about predatory masters at the school in his critically acclaimed autobiographyĀ Flannelled Fool: A Slice of a Life in the Thirties.
In 2005 the school was one of fifty of the country’s leading independent schools which were found guilty of running anĀ illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed byĀ The Times, which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents. Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of Ā£10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared.Ā
Address : Bath Rd, Marlborough SN8 1PA, United Kingdom
Louise Moelwyn-Hughes
To register and for information for Marlborough College year 9 Entry click here
https://www.marlboroughcollege.org/admissions/admissions-procedures/
For 2021 Entry into Marlborough College year 9 will use the ISEB Pre-test.
Registration must be done five years prior to year of entry. The ISEB Pre-test can be taken in the summer of year 8.
In addition to the ISEB test, a reference from the candidatesā current school will be requested. They will also be invited for an interview as part of their assessment.
TheĀ testsĀ 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
TheĀ test is takenĀ on a computerĀ and consists of multiple-choice questions. It isĀ broken down into four parts:Ā
