Kingsdale Banding Assessment

[HarrietKE]

Hi,
Would anyone be kind enough to let me know what the banding assessment looks like for Kingsdale? Is it verbal & non-verbal reasoning? I can’t seem to be able to find any information about it.
Many thanks,
Harriet

I am positive it is only non-verbal. It was non-verbal last year.

I think GL is the provider but you can check with admissions to check provider.

But it should be nothing to worry about because it is a lottery system anyhow.

Last year it was 3 short sections of non verbal - the tests did not in total last more than 30 minute - with instructions this came to 45 mins. It was completed online due to covid.

Hope that helps.

Hugely kind of you & super helpful - thank you!

All NVR

From what I can work out, they have used it to a degree to set classes recently given nobody has done SATs for the last couple of years.

While it is sort of true that as a lottery there is 'nothing to worry about' as @flyaboat says, it is very likely, like other schools, that the waiting list for Band A will move the quickest followed by Band B and then Band C. That reflects the fact that more kids in Band A will head to private or grammar schools.

Hi, as a follow up to the question above, does anyone know if the Kingsdale banding test is similar to the ISEB non-verbal or more similar to the council tests like the Wandsworth test. The ISEB covers a wider range of topics that aren’t in the Wandsworth test such as nets and cubes and the questions become harder if they are answered correctly. Thank you.

My DD sat the banding tests in 2019 and said they were the same kind of questions that are in the CEM books you can buy in WHSmiths.

Definitely things like rotating cubes and shapes.

@tadger98

While it is sort of true that as a lottery there is 'nothing to worry about' as *@flyaboat* says, it is very likely, like other schools, that the waiting list for Band A will move the quickest followed by Band B and then Band C. That reflects the fact that more kids in Band A will head to private or grammar schools.

On the other hand as Kd is a favoured school by aspirational parents from miles around, there may be far more Band A applications, meaning a lottery place is harder to come by.

I doubt the school publish the stats on either scenario, but maybe they do.

Candidates are sorted by the "banding" test into three equal groups so there are no more candidates in band A than there are in band B or C.