Entry into Year 7

The assessment for 11+ entry is taken in the Autumn Term for admission the following September.

There are three parts to the assessment for a Year 7 place at Farnborough Hill: a reference from your daughter’s current school, a meeting with the Headmistress and, finally, our entrance assessment day. 

Reference

We will first contact your daughter’s current school directly to request a reference from the Head.

Meeting with the Headmistress

Both you and your daughter will be invited to meet with the Headmistress, Maria Young, prior to any offer of a place at Farnborough Hill. Meetings take place in the Summer Term of Year 5 and the Autumn Term of Year 6. Once your daughter is registered with us, Mel Clark, Head’s PA, will invite you to make an appointment from April onwards.

Year 7 Entrance Assessment

We assess Mathematics, Verbal Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning skills using the Quest Assessment platform. The assessments are designed to engage pupils and give them the opportunity to show their best work whilst accommodating a wide range of learning styles and abilities.

The tests are online and take approximately one hour, using a PC with a separate keyboard and mouse. A link to the Quest familiarisation website will be emailed to you as soon as you have registered your daughter.

In addition, all applicants will also be asked to complete a 45-minute handwritten Creative Writing paper, before they come together in small groups to enjoy a teambuilding activity and a short group interview with one of our Senior Leadership Team, to discuss their experiences of the activity.  The teambuilding activity and interview will be facilitated by our teaching staff and will give us the opportunity to observe the girls working together. No preparation will be needed for these activities: we just hope the girls will enjoy them! 

If your daughter is hoping to join us in Year 7 in September 2027, she will take her Entrance Assessment on Monday 14 December 2026, with the registration deadline being Monday 2 November 2026.

 

Deferred Year 9 Entry

Each year we offer a small number of deferred places to Year 6 pupils looking to join us in Year 9.  If you would like to take this route, your daughter will need to be registered with us by the November deadline in her Year 6 and will sit her entrance assessments in December of Year 6.  A deferred place will be offered to your daughter if we believe she is well placed to make a successful transition to senior school at this later stage. Your daughter’s place will be conditional on a final reference and school report from her current school that we will request during Year 8. These reports will help us place your daughter in the most appropriate sets for her chosen subjects.

Should demand for places exceed available space or we feel that a Year 9 deferred place isn’t the best option for your daughter, we may offer her a place in Year 7 instead or invite her to visit us again in Year 8 for a further assessment.

Entry into other Year Groups

If you would like your daughter to join us outside the normal entry points, please contact us first to see if we have a space for her.

She will sit both the online Quest assessments and the 45-minute creative writing paper, and have an interview with the Headmistress. We will also ask you for a copy of her latest school report, which we will consider in addition to her school reference. Assessments for places in other Year Groups take place on an ad-hoc basis – usually within a few weeks of you registering your daughter with us.

If you are interested in a place in the Sixth Form, please visit our Sixth Form Admissions page.