Year 7

The Wilson’s School Second Stage Entrance Examination will be held on Saturday 28th November 2020. All boys who have passed the Selective Eligibility Test for Wilson's School will receive an invitation to sit the Wilson's School Second Stage Entrance Examination. For September 2021 Wilson's School will be sharing its Second Stage Entrance Examination with Sutton Grammar School and the outcome of this shared second stage test will be used by each of the schools to determine eligibility for places at their school.

If there is a further lockdown and this test cannot take place, the date of the revised test will be published on our website (and the website of all other participating schools) and will be emailed to you as soon as it is known.

Wilson’s School and Sutton Grammar School have agreed to share their Second Stage Entrance Examinations. This has the advantage for boys who have passed the Selective Eligibility Test of only requiring them to sit one second stage examination, the results of which will be used independently by each school to determine eligibility to be considered for a place there.

There is no current or planned connection between the two schools beyond co-operation on our entrance testing arrangements. Both Wilson’s School and Sutton Grammar remain separate and distinct state funded academy schools.

The second-stage test will consist of two papers as follows:

• English (1 hour): this paper will be an extended writing task.
• Maths (45 minutes): this will be a standard maths paper.

 
The tests will not include verbal or non-verbal reasoning, and are not multiple choice.

No, we do not make sample tests available. The content of the English and Mathematics tests is based on the Key Stage 2 curriculum.

It is not possible to state pass marks in advance of the examination. Pass marks will be decided by each individual school after the papers have been marked. Wilson's School and Sutton Grammar School may not necessarily set the same pass mark.

Yes. Once the Second Stage Entrance Examination has been marked, each school will combine the scores of this test with the scores of the SET in accordance with its own Admissions Criteria. For Wilson's School, candidates must pass both the English and the Mathematics papers from the Second Stage Entrance Examination to be eligible to be considered for a place in the rank order. The rank order of the entrance examinations is then determined on the basis of the aggregate scores of the Selective Eligibility Test and the two elements of the Second Stage Entrance Examination in the ratio 1: 2: 2. Please refer to the Sutton Grammar School website for details of how the scores for the second stage test will be used at that school.

Yes, for Wilson’s School, candidates must reach a pass standard in both the English and the Mathematics papers in order to be considered for a place at the school.

Appropriate adjustment for age will be considered before the aggregate score is calculated.

That’s fine. Invitations are sent out automatically to all boys who have passed the Selective Eligibilty Test for Wilson’s and Sutton Grammar, but if you do not wish your son to sit the Second Stage Entrance Examination, please just email us to let us know before the date of the test. If your son does not sit the shared Second Stage Entrance Examination you should not name Wilson’s School or Sutton Grammar School on your Common Application Form.

That's fine. The allocation of venue for the Second Stage Entrance Examination has been made so that, where possible, candidates have been allocated a different venue from the one they were allocated for the Selective Eligibility Test, in order to provide candidates and their parents an opportunity to experience different school settings. The venue allocation has no bearing on your ultimate school preference. If you are interested in a place at either Wilson's School or Sutton Grammar School, or both, your son needs to sit the Second Stage Entrance Examination at the school you have been allocated.

No. It is a requirement that your son sits and passes the Selective Eligibility Test in order for him to sit the shared Wilson’s/Sutton Grammar Second Stage Entrance Examination.

There are no alternative dates to sit the Second Stage Entrance Examination except in the case of a child not being fit to sit the test on the day or if they are self-isolating because of recent contact with someone showing symptoms of COVID-19 or testing positive for the virus. A medical certificate or other evidence confirming the position on the day of the test will be required.

No. There will only be a morning session.

You will have already provided details of these when completing the online Registration Form to register your child to sit the Selective Eligibility Test. You will have been informed of the arrangements if any that will be in place for your son for the shared Second Stage Entrance Examination.

Each school will send you a separate notification of the outcome of the Second Stage Entrance Examination for their school by email to parents/carers before the Christmas break. It is important to note therefore that you will not have an opportunity to change your preferences or order of preferences on your CAF following this notification as the deadline for such changes is 10 December 2020. There is simply not enough time between the test on 28 November and this date to ensure proper and careful marking of all exam scripts, checking processes, standardisation of scores and processing of outcome emails. This is an unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of the postponement of the Selective Eligibility Test from its normal September date as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

It is also important to note that Wilson's School and Sutton Grammar School have different Admissions Criteria and different methods of combining the scores from the SET and second stage tests and of calculating the final outcome of the entrance tests for our respective schools. This means that it is possible that a boy may pass the examinations for one of our schools and not for the other. If your son has passed for Wilson's School, you will not, at any stage, be provided with his mark. We only provide details of the overall score achieved to candidates who do not pass the test. Please note that, because of oversubscription, passing the test does not guarantee the offer of a place at Wilson’s School.

You are welcome to contact a member of the Admissions Team on 020 8773 2931 or email admissions@wilsonsschool.sutton.sch.uk.