Senior (ages 11 – 18)

All students must be registered to sit our entrance examination. Please complete the form here along with payment of the non-refundable registration fee by Thursday 17 October 2024. Registration deadlines apply for each academic year.

If your son is currently in Year 7 or 8 please contact the Head of Admissions, Mrs Kathryn Sweet, on 01483 880 600 or by email at RGS-admissions@rgsg.co.uk before registering your son.

Our main entry points are:

• 11+ (Year 7)
• 16+ (Year 12)
• Occasional places available in Years 8, 9 and 10.
• Historically, we have had a 13+ intake; we continue to welcome applications for Year 9 although entry into Year 9 from September 2027 will be dependent upon the number of places available in that year group. However, we may offer a place to students for whom the RGS would clearly be the right environment.
• Candidates who have been either successful or unsuccessful in their 11+ application to the RGS may re-apply no earlier than entry into Year 10 (with assessment in Year 9) or subsequent years. 
• A wait list is available for all year groups (except Fifth Form – Year 11 and Upper Sixth Form – Year 13).
• In exceptional circumstances (such as current school closure) and on an individual basis, we may be able to consider intake into Years 11 and 13.

The assessments for 11+ include:

• A confidential reference from their current headteacher.
• The online ISEB Common Pre-Tests during the first term of Year 6. Age-standardised tests comprise English, Mathematics, Verbal Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning; they are in a multiple-choice format and take approximately two-and-a-quarter hours to complete. No special preparation is required for the Common Pre-Tests.
• An individual interview by current members of staff. These are conducted in a relaxed atmosphere to gain insight into each students’ interests and to see how they respond to questions they will not have prepared for.
• A short composition/English creative writing task.

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• We invite some students back in January for a second interview; this allows us to give all the benefit of doubt.  The interview provides opportunity to reflect on inconsistency in performance; relative weakness in one area; disparity between performance in the assessments and their reference.  This allows us to identify those with the potential to thrive at the RGS but who have not performed consistently in the assessment.

Parents are notified of the outcome towards the middle of February, on a date agreed by all schools which are a member of the Trinity Group. Acceptances are required by early March.

If your son is offered a place, you will be invited to our Offer Holders’ Event in February. This allows parents and boys to meet more of the staff body and current students and ask any outstanding questions. For those who accept their places, they are invited to our New Students’ Reception Afternoon.

Find out how our First Form settled quickly into student life here:

Joining the First Form video