Assessment
On Wednesday 14 October all candidates will sit an assessment at CLSG. This will begin with a multiple-choice test assessing critical thinking skills for all students. No preparation is required. We are simply interested in seeing how students respond to a range of stimuli and will test their ability to infer, deduce and reason logically.
Candidates will then sit one or two other written papers depending on their proposed A Level choices.
If they are thinking of doing an essay-based subject (English, Classical civilisation, Classical or modern languages, drama and theatre studies, economics, geography, history, music, politics, RPE) they will write an essay from a choice of titles. This will be an argument-based question and will require candidates to look at the question from more than one angle. This will not require any particular knowledge, but they might want to use examples from their GCSE courses as evidence. The paper will be 45 minutes long, but will have some planning time.
If they are thinking of doing maths, further maths, computer science, DT or any of the sciences, they will do a 45-minute maths paper.