Will ISEB exams take place this year?

13+ and 11+ Common Entrance exams are designed by the Independent Schools' Examination Board.
Students sit the exams in their prep schools (or at Branodn for Hong Kong students),
and the scripts are sent to individual senion schools for marking.
The decision about whether 13+ exams will be issued is made by the ISEB.
So far, the ISEB has indicated that they will be producing the summer 2020 papers.
With UK schools closed though, the bigger question is where our students will be taking their exams!
Individual senior schools may decide that they do not require their 2020 candidates to sit the exams,
or may opt for home 'open book' testing.
If this is the case, they will contact parents individually and through their schools.
Most girls' schools sit the 13+ or 11+ exams in January,
with boys' and mixed schools normally opting for the June dates.
Eton has made all 2020 offers now unconditional but their boys can choose to sit the exam where practicable.
Radley and St Paul's no longer require their 2020 boys to sit the 13+. Hong Kong based boys will sit the 13+ for Harrow but,
as usual, this is for setting only.

As we hear from other schools, we will let you know.
To read news from the ISEB: Covid-19 related news from the ISEB

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