New London Consortium assessment for 2023 entry

[EmotiveBubblez]

The Consortium have announced their new assessment today that has been developed in conjunction with Atom Learning.

Details are:

The assessment will include cognitive reasoning, English comprehension, Maths and some creative new components to assess problem-solving and analysis skills.

Any prior knowledge assessed in the entrance examination will be based on the National Curriculum for Year 5, but with opportunities for additional challenge built into the assessment.

The assessment will be taken as an online assessment.

There will be five distinct components, taken in the following order:
20 minutes for Maths
10 minutes for Non-Verbal Reasoning
30 minutes for English comprehension and Verbal Reasoning
BREAK for 30 minutes
15 minutes for Problem Solving
25 minutes for the Analysis component

Familiarisation materials will be published on the Consortium website in early Autumn Term 2022. We recommend that all candidates look at these before taking the assessment.

I am happy to hear they will be tested on the Y5 curriculum bot happy that the familiarisation materials are available from he Autumn term given the assessment takes place in December.


What are people's thoughts and how are you preparing?

Y5 parent - EB

[tamu1234]

Does anyone have input of the FHRP interview process? We are going this week. There is a group activity as well as an interview - any tips from experience last year?