What’s new in ISEB?
♣ Registration process:
You now need to register your child for the ISEB instead of being automatically registered by your chosen senior school
♣ Accessibility:
Your child can hide the timer so it is not visible on the exam screen if they choose.
Your child can adjust the font size and select a colour overlay to help with visibility of the questions.
All children are now allowed to use pencil and paper for notes and rough working throughout the whole test (in previous years, this was only allowed for certain subjects).
♣ Format:
Your child will get two separate scores for English rather than it being counted all as one test. The two sections are comprehension and SPaG (spelling, punctuation and grammar).
The English comprehension section consists of several shorter texts with fewer questions for each, rather than one long text.
The English comprehension section no longer requires children to click through several pages to read the whole passage. They can now read the whole text simply by scrolling.
♣ Content:
A new non-verbal reasoning question type has been added (for example: how many cubes to form a given shape?)
The content bank is being expanded to add more individual questions.
Non-verbal reasoning: 30 minutes
Verbal reasoning: 25 minutes