Registration
As soon as you have decided that you would like to proceed with an application to Repton, you are asked to register your child formally for a place in the School by completing a Registration Form (in the back of the prospectus) and their name will be added to the list for entry to a particular house. A place will be held until approximately 12 months before he or she is due to enter the School.
Deposits
Approximately one year before entry, we will request a deposit to confirm that you are still interested in your son or daughter joining the School. Once paid, this deposit is refundable only if your child fails to qualify for entry through the entrance examinations.
Entrance by Examination
13+ Entry
All pupils joining Repton at 13+ will normally take Common Entrance examinations in their final year at preparatory school. These examinations take place in June prior to entry and further details can be obtained from your child’s current Headmaster or Headmistress.
For those children not currently at a prep school, we have our own Non-Common Entrance papers. Candidates are examined in Mathematics, English, Science and Reasoning and examinations are usually held late in the Michaelmas Term prior to entry.
We would also expect to receive a satisfactory report from a candidate’s current school.
Applicants for places in Year 10 take our entrance tests in English, Maths, Science and Reasoning and need to provide a satisfactory report from their current school.
Sixth Form Entry
Entry to the Sixth Form is subject to a minimum requirement of 5 B grades at GCSE. Candidates must achieve at least a B grade at GCSE in a subject to be studied at AS-level, and an A grade in the case of Mathematics, any Science or a Modern Foreign Language. We must also receive a satisfactory report from a candidate’s current school and all applicants must also take our Sixth Form entry examinations, either at Scholarship or General entry level.
Sixth Form entrance examinations are usually held at the beginning of November, for entry in the following September. All candidates will take three 45-minute papers in subjects to be studied at A level and a Reasoning Test.
For details of our Entrance Scholarships, please see our separate Scholarships page in this section.