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I am studying for my 16+ exams for city of london girls and i dont know where to start as they dont provide past papers or anything, would using papers from other schools help or gcse papers?
+ tips in general
thank you !

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Original post by cyberd00m
I am studying for my 16+ exams for city of london girls and i dont know where to start as they dont provide past papers or anything, would using papers from other schools help or gcse papers?
+ tips in general
thank you !


Do they have a spec?

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Hi, did you sit the admission tests last year? What was in them and did you manage to get in? I'm going to sit the exam and any recollection of what was on your exams would help a lot!!

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Original post by shhshshaaaaa
Hi, did you sit the admission tests last year? What was in them and did you manage to get in? I'm going to sit the exam and any recollection of what was on your exams would help a lot!!

I did a lot of past papers that other schools had available such as rugby and tonbridge!! Most of the exams included GCSE knowledge but were also completely different so it was mainly based on how you thought and your analytical skills. For my chemistry exam, they taught you about the homologous series(outside of the GCSE spec) and they gave you questions to apply them in so it was really about reading the question properly and understanding how to use the knowledge given to you, for history they gave you sources and questions based on them, the question types were not too far to what you do at GCSE and you did have to bring your own knowledge in from what you already know. I did end up getting in but I did not get the required GCSE grades

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Original post by cyberd00m
I did a lot of past papers that other schools had available such as rugby and tonbridge!! Most of the exams included GCSE knowledge but were also completely different so it was mainly based on how you thought and your analytical skills. For my chemistry exam, they taught you about the homologous series(outside of the GCSE spec) and they gave you questions to apply them in so it was really about reading the question properly and understanding how to use the knowledge given to you, for history they gave you sources and questions based on them, the question types were not too far to what you do at GCSE and you did have to bring your own knowledge in from what you already know. I did end up getting in but I did not get the required GCSE grades

Hi, did you do the maths paper? If so what was in it and how do you recommend preparing? Also, if you did the essay paper what prompts did you receive?

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