Benenden School

Specimen Entrance Papers

All students are recommended the ISEB pre-test for potential entry to Benenden School 

11+ English Practice Paper

Comprehension

11+ English Practice Paper

Comprehension

11+ English Practice Paper

Comprehension

11+ English Practice Paper

Comprehension

About Benenden School

Benenden School is an independent boarding school for girls in Kent, England. It is located in Hemsted Park at Benenden in the Kent countryside, between Cranbrook and Tenterden.

Today Benenden remains an all-boarding school for over 500 girls aged 11 to 18. The headmistress is Samantha Price (previously head of Godolphin School, Salisbury, Wiltshire), who took over from Claire Oulton in January 2014.

The school occupies a Victorian mansion, set in 240 acres of gardens and woodland in the Weald of Kent. Living, learning, sporting and leisure facilities are clustered around the original 19th-century mansion. There have been, and continue to be, many improvements to the site. There is a sports centre (known as “SPLASH”), a humanities building (“Leelands”), a design technology centre, study centre (Clarke Centre) and a theatre and drama teaching complex (completed summer 2007) at the cost of £2.3 million. The study centre consists of the Eugenia Leung Library and classrooms. A new science centre, one of the most advanced centres of scientific learning available in the independent sector, was opened by the Princess Royal on 10 October 2012. The school’s most recent enhancement has been the construction of an all-weather sports pitch and pavilion in September 2016.

Address : Benenden, Cranbrook TN17 4AA, United Kingdom

Headmaster / Headmistress

Samantha Price

Headmistress

Applying To Benenden School

To register and for information for Benenden School year 7 Entry click here:

https://www.benenden.school/admissions/entry-and-assessments

For 2021 Entry into Benenden School year 7 will use the ISEB Pre-test.

Registration Deadlines & Examination Dates

The registration is now closed. Benenden has their own entrance examinations

About the ISEB Common Pre-test

The tests take about two-and-a-half hours to complete (English 25 minutes, mathematics 50 minutes, non-verbal reasoning 32 minutes, verbal reasoning 36 minutes) and can be taken together or at separate times, either in the candidate’s own school or at the senior school for which he or she is entered

ISEB Pre-Test Format:  

The test is taken on a computer and consists of multiple-choice questions. It is broken down into four parts: 

  1. English – 25 minutes(reading comprehension, sentence completion, spelling and punctuation) 
  2. Mathematics – 50 minutes(in line with Year 5 of the UK National Curriculum) 
  3. Non-Verbal Reasoning – 32 minutes(shape analogies, classes like, horizontal codes) 
  4. Verbal Reasoning – 36 minutes(common words, antonyms, word combinations, letter transfer and number codes)

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