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RSD Familiarisation Day The Common Entrance Assessment Candidates are advised to arrive in school from 9.15 am and all candidates should be in their places no later than 9.45am. Candidates need to bring: AQE Admission card Two pencils and a rubber No food or drink will be permitted in the examination room. No mobile phones, ipods, MP3/4 players. No products with an electronic communication/storage device or digital facility. In particular, no candidate must have in their possession a mobile phone, whether switched on or not. The papers are to be completed in pencil. During the examination candidates will be informed when 15, 30 and 45 minutes have passed. The questions should be answered as quickly and as carefully as possible, starting at the beginning of the paper and continuing right through. If a candidate comes to a question that he/she is not able to answer, leave it and go on to the next question and return to this question later. Rough work may be done on the separate sheet provided or at the side of the assessment paper. Candidates should make their normal writing as neat as possible and if they are making any changes to answers they should try to do so as neatly as possible. Candidates should make sure that they do not turn over two pages at once. Candidates must not talk during the assessment. During the assessment no candidate must give help to another candidate or copy from another candidate. If a candidate needs to attract the attention of the invigilator they should raise their hand No additional time will be added on for toilet breaks (unless specific Special Arrangements apply) If a candidate arrives late, he or she will not be given extra time at the end of the session If a candidate finishes early he or she must not leave the room before the end of the time but should look over their work and make sure that he/she has not missed any pages. Candidates with Special Arrangements are to bring relevant items as arranged e.g. a coloured overlay, a timer, food or drink if permitted. Admission to RSD We hope that pupils using RSD as a test centre for the CEA will apply to RSD when it comes to filling in the Transfer Form It does not matter where you place RSD on your Transfer form – we shall consider any pupil who puts RSD down as one of his or her preferences We are a boarding and voluntary grammar school and our Admissions Criteria reflects such – we have a mechanism for accepting both boarding and day pupils In total, we are permitted to admit 93 pupils into Form I. 125 pupils are sitting the CEA at RSD and we anticipate being oversubscribed. The full version of our Admissions Criteria will be available in the SELB Transfer Guidance booklet published in December. Parents should consult the booklet when applying to RSD. In general, outline terms, our Admissions Criteria will operate as follows:
In broad, outline terms, our Additional Considerations shall be, in the following order:
Pupils wishing to claim Special Circumstances (e.g. illness during the CEA) or Special Provision (e.g. moving to Northern Ireland after the CEA was sat) may do so as in the old ’11 plus’ system. Please consult the SELB ‘Transfer guidance’ booklet. Worked example If 130 pupils apply to RSD, 5 of whom wish to enter as boarders and 125 of whom wish to sit the CEA then we might have the following outcome:
The information stated here is indicative of RSD Admissions Criteria but should not be relied upon when making an application to the School. The full Admissions Criteria issued by the SELB in the ‘Transfer Guidance’ booklet must be consulted for a full understanding of the admissions procedure. Page last updated on 19-10-2009 Tel: 028 87722710
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