13 plus Common Pre-test St Pauls and Westminster.

What she means is that boys are called for interview in a group from their prep or primary school. And results letters go out 'early march'.

I thought Westminster were going to write after the interviews before the end of the summer term (friend's son had his interview 2 wks ago).

Kalg, I mean to say westminister will call according to school..
All the boys who passed iseb from the same they will invite all of them on same day:)
Also one of boy form our school have an interview on 27th Feb at St pauls.
I am still waiting for my sons date:(
Lets see..

Mariehubble1 - good luck to your son the the 27 Feb.

I didn't really understand your comment about Westminster. Do you mean that Westminster will call us if our DS has a place. I thought we would receive a letter sometime in March. Any information gratefully received!

Thanks a lot for your reply...
Lets see when my son will get his letter...
I know from our son who will be having an interview on 27th Feb.
Fingers and Toes crossed:)

Westminister they call all the school boys on same day..

Hi marie well done to your DS. If you read this thread you will see us trying to work out how SPS are deciding who to call when. They say it is random but evidence suggests so far the very cleverest boys have been called so far. No insight yet on what the interview is beyond short maths and creative writing and then an interview with some subject based questions. Impossible to prepare for beyond the obvious.

Hi,
I am new to the world of UK's education .My son had Westminster interview in feb first week.
It was ok .Maths was easy and english was bit challenging.
I am still waiting for St. Pauls interview date.

Any idea how they are calling children for an interview??Are they applying any criteria???

Please can some one help me to understand the processes.
Also it would be good if anyone can guide me @ exmas and pattern of an interview for St pauls.

Thanks,
Marie

My DS was the last one in his school to be interviewed last year . He is the youngest in his year so not sure if late birthday had any bearing . He got offered a place . Good luck to everyone !!

Getting pretty fed up now. Had Westminster today and agree that the exam was challenging but not impossible. Got the impression from my DS that the interview was a bit of a meet and greet ... I.e. Very enjoyable but unlikely to be a big part of the process (I could be wrong). That means it will be down to exam performance. Still waiting for SP interview date. To think even if we get offers we need to clear Common entrance !!

Fascinating and I guess it makes sense for them to interview in order of pre test results since they have them. So an earlier interview date is a good sign. Which makes the waiting even more stressful. Am so glad we now have our interview date!!

If SPLs interview a lot of suitable boys first, they will then offer places to them as they always give the results within 2 weeks of the interview. This then uses up the available places. It maybe of course that they interview lots of unsuitable boys first, which leaves the places open.

With my older son's year group, there were far more boys given places granted if they were interviewed by the middle of May. In fact, everyone interviewed after then in his prep school were WL or turned down.

Hmm - wish I could offer some reassurance but one of the brightest boys in DS's school (an August birthday) was also ne of the first interviewed!

Yes, King's tomorrow! And our post is ALWAYS late...

Kings letters due tomorrow. .... Yikes

As the mother of an august born DC I do like it when schools manage this process by age, like Eton does. SPS say they are doing it randomly. But the boy called from our school is not the oldest, nor alphabetically first but is super clever so I do wonder....

Are you sure they don't interview by age? Oldest first so they speak to the youngest when they are 13. Sadly I think there are still more September-December children offered places at this stage.

Kalg why do you say that?

SPS has always run its interviews over a 10 month period or so and so I assume knows how to judge who makes their cut - I assume they have an absolute standard they are looking for and so know how to manage their offers so they don't use up all their places too early or have too many left at the end.

On the other hand...the cleverest boy in our school is the one who was invited first...

It seems the earlier the interview, the more likely you are to secure a place at St Paul's - interviews run through to the autumn and places are already being confirmed. We are still waiting for an interview date for our DS. I'm now starting to worry!

One boy from our school was interviewed last week and had his offer by the weekend too.

Two from our school got interviews and received offers three days later. A third has interview this week. We are still waiting for our date. Twelve in total from our school got through to interviews.

One from our school (a day prep) has been interviewed at SPS so far - the rest that got through to that stage are all waiting for the envelope to land.

With those numbers you've got to have every sympathy with them for switching to the computer test.

2 boys from my class (state primary) have interviews next week.

They're doing state school and overseas candidates at the moment. I know one person with a date so far who doesnt fall into those categories.

Anybody got a St. Paul's interview date yet ?

I now have definitive data so sharing it for the record in case useful in future years:
• Westminster : 520 took the ISEB pre-test, they are interviewing 260 boys for 70-75 places and will be over-offering slightly. They expect to make all offers in early March.
• SPS : 650 took the ISEB pre-test, they are interviewing approx 300 boys for around 90 places and they too will be over-offering slightly. Their offers will come within a week of interview but these will run all this year

Short Maths and English tests at each school alongside interview. Good luck all!

But don't be freaked out by the numbers...those 350 boys or whatever will also be taking tests at Eton, Westminster, KCS etc. eventually they will all get in somewhere and all these schools are fab. I keep telling myself it will be fine!