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Westminster School 16+ entrance exam advice

Hi, I am doing the Westminster School entrance exam for A-Levels and thinking about doing Maths, Further Maths, Physics, and Biology. Does anyone have any advice for revising for these exams? For any long-answer questions in any of the exams what is the structure I should answer in? In the physics exam is it calculator or non-calculator, and will I need to know formulae?

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by Will1322
Hi, I am doing the Westminster School entrance exam for A-Levels and thinking about doing Maths, Further Maths, Physics, and Biology. Does anyone have any advice for revising for these exams? For any long-answer questions in any of the exams what is the structure I should answer in? In the physics exam is it calculator or non-calculator, and will I need to know formulae?

Hi! I'm pretty sure their are sample papers on the westminister website - the maths papers are pretty much basic gcse content so make sure you know your gcse syllabus like 100%. there will be a few questions like based on the imc/smc/jmc, so definitely practice those and watch some full solutions. for physics i recommend practicing the intermediate physics challenge - don't be put off if you get a low score the first time by the time you've done your 3rd paper you might be getting 29/50 (which is a gold award and not too bad). Westminster papers on average are really hard and average scores are like 30% - 50% so if you practice the harder things you'll be confident! i hope this helped :smile:

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by username7785226
Hi! I'm pretty sure their are sample papers on the westminister website - the maths papers are pretty much basic gcse content so make sure you know your gcse syllabus like 100%. there will be a few questions like based on the imc/smc/jmc, so definitely practice those and watch some full solutions. for physics i recommend practicing the intermediate physics challenge - don't be put off if you get a low score the first time by the time you've done your 3rd paper you might be getting 29/50 (which is a gold award and not too bad). Westminster papers on average are really hard and average scores are like 30% - 50% so if you practice the harder things you'll be confident! i hope this helped :smile:


Thank you so much, this helped a lot

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by username7785226
Hi! I'm pretty sure their are sample papers on the westminister website - the maths papers are pretty much basic gcse content so make sure you know your gcse syllabus like 100%. there will be a few questions like based on the imc/smc/jmc, so definitely practice those and watch some full solutions. for physics i recommend practicing the intermediate physics challenge - don't be put off if you get a low score the first time by the time you've done your 3rd paper you might be getting 29/50 (which is a gold award and not too bad). Westminster papers on average are really hard and average scores are like 30% - 50% so if you practice the harder things you'll be confident! i hope this helped :smile:


What do people usually get on chemistry? Some say it’s really hard

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by username7785226
Hi! I'm pretty sure their are sample papers on the westminister website - the maths papers are pretty much basic gcse content so make sure you know your gcse syllabus like 100%. there will be a few questions like based on the imc/smc/jmc, so definitely practice those and watch some full solutions. for physics i recommend practicing the intermediate physics challenge - don't be put off if you get a low score the first time by the time you've done your 3rd paper you might be getting 29/50 (which is a gold award and not too bad). Westminster papers on average are really hard and average scores are like 30% - 50% so if you practice the harder things you'll be confident! i hope this helped :smile:

How much do you think is enough to get interview for physics tho, because I think I can really get around 70% or even less for physics but I think I did like really well on the other three, is there still a chance especially given that the average is 30-50%? People around me didn't seem to struggle so I think I'm cooked😂

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