About the Year 6 test
Some Wandsworth secondary schools use partial-selection or fair banding as part of their admission criteria. The Year 6 admissions test is designed to provide these schools with the data they need to make offer decisions. The test data is also useful to provide contextual information for Wandsworth primary schools.
All children applying for Ashcroft Technology Academy, Burntwood School, Chestnut Grove Academy or Graveney School must be registered to be invited to take the test.
If your child has an EHCP, they do not have to take the test. If your child receives SEN support, view the test structure for more information.
Registration
You must register your child for the test if you are considering applying for any place at Ashcroft Technology Academy, Chestnut Grove Academy, Burntwood School or Graveney School. If you are not considering applying for a place at one or more of these schools, there is no need for your child to sit the test.
Ensure that the email address you provide is the same one you will use on the eAdmissions website to apply for schools and is a personal address you can monitor on the weekend in case we need to update you urgently.
The closing date for test registration is Thursday 4 September 2025. It will not be possible to accept further registrations after this date.
Test invitations
If you register for the test by the 4 September 2025 registration closing date, we will write to you by email with details of where and when your child will take the test. Note that the test venue will not necessarily be a school you are considering applying to. Invitations will be emailed by or before Thursday 18 September 2025.
Test dates
The test will be held over four days during term time – Thursday 25, Friday 26, Saturday 27 and Monday 29 September – at a secondary school test venue. As far as possible pupils from the same primary school will sit the test on the same day and at the same test venue.
You must ensure that your child can take the test on the set date. It will not be possible for an alternative date to be arranged.
Results
If your child takes the test in September, you will be notified by email of your child's test results on or before 24 October 2025.
Find out more about marking and results.
Specialist aptitude test
If you are considering applying for a specialist aptitude place at a Wandsworth school, you will have to take the particular school's aptitude test as well as the Wandsworth Year 6 Test.
Further information about specialist aptitude tests.
Contact
Pupil Services contact details:
Telephone: 020 8871 7316
Email: year6test@wandsworth.gov.uk