Many families will be keen to visit Tonbridge before embarking upon the admissions procedure. We are always pleased to welcome them at one of our termly Open Mornings. Parents often come on an initial visit when their son is in year 4 or 5 - three or four years before their son’s date of entry.
Registration is the formal first stage of the admissions process, and shows that parents are interested in a place for their son at Tonbridge. To register, please complete the online Tonbridge Registration Form. There is a non-refundable registration fee of £250. Parents are advised to register their son by the end of Year 5, since the majority of offers are made in January of Year 6, after candidates have attended an assessment afternoon in the Autumn Term of Year 6. Those wishing to be in the first round of offers in January of Year 6, must have registered their son by the deadline of Monday 19 September 2022. The latest date on which registrations are accepted, for candidates wishing to follow the standard entrance route described below, is Monday 24 April 2023 when a boy is in Year 6. Please note, this date is for those boys who have already sat the ISEB Pre-Test. For those that are yet to sit the ISEB Pre-Test, the deadline is Monday 17 April 2023.
- Applications from boys at a school in Hong Kong or Mainland China
Candidates applying from Hong Kong or Mainland China are asked to contact our representatives there.
Hong Kong applicants should contact Ms Battie Fung, Academic Asia, 14/F, China Taiping Tower Phase II, 8 Sunning Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Tel：+852 2833 0919 | Fax：+852 2834 5398 | www.academic-asia.com Email: battie@academic-asia.com
Mainland China applicants should contact Ms Sophie Smith, BE Education, 9/F, Yueda 889 Center, 1111 Changshou Road, Shanghai, 200042, China
Tel: +862133607080 ext.8112 | www.be.co | Email : sophie.smith@be.co
- ISEB Pre-Test and Assessment Afternoon
Candidates who are registered with us three years or more prior to proposed entry are invited to sit the ISEB Common Pre-Test and to visit Tonbridge for an assessment afternoon. If registered before Monday 19 September 2022, Assessments will take place in the Autumn Term of Year 6. Those registering after Monday 19 September 2022, but before Monday 24 April 2023 will be invited to an Assessment Afternoon in the Lent or Summer Term of Year 6.
Those attending Assessment Afternoons in the Autumn Term will need to sit their ISEB Pre-Test by Thursday 1 December 2022. Those attending later Assessment Afternoons will need to have sat their ISEB Pre-Test by Monday 17 April 2022.
All boys who have completed their assessment in the Autumn Term of Year 6 should expect to receive their offer towards the end of January.
Those candidates with the strongest profile will receive an UNCONDITIONAL OFFER of a place at Tonbridge in Year 9, usually dependent only upon them continuing at their current school through to the end of Year 8 (where that school continues to Year 8) and a satisfactory final report from their school. Other candidates who present a sufficiently strong profile will receive a PROVISIONAL OFFER of a place, inviting them to take part in a further competitive assessment which they will complete at Tonbridge during Spring of Year 7. Such candidates will therefore have the opportunity to win a confirmed, UNCONDITIONAL OFFER during the Spring of Year 7, when they will be invited to complete a mathematics paper and a writing paper at Tonbridge, as well as carrying out a short interview. Specimen papers and a syllabus for the mathematics paper of the Year 7 Entrance Exam for those holding provisional offers can be viewed on our exam papers page. We will also request an updated report from a boy's current school.
- Acceptance of Unconditional and Provisional Places and Opening of House Lists
Parents accept their son's UNCONDITIONAL OFFER by completing the Final Entry Form and paying a non-refundable admission fee of £2,000. Families accepting an unconditional offer, who have made a firm decision as to whether their son will be a boarder or a day boy, also have the opportunity to express a preference for a particular boarding or day house when returning the Final Entry Form. Where no preference is expressed, boys are allocated to houses by the Headmaster in consultation with the Director of Admissions. Further details of the house allocation process can be found here.
Parents accepting a PROVISIONAL OFFER do so by returning an Acceptance Form which is issued with the offer and at this stage, no payment is required.
Any candidate who is in receipt of an UNCONDITIONAL OFFER may choose to sit our Academic Scholarship which takes place in late April/early May of Year 8.
