Entry Procedure & Scholarship Application

Enquiries

Enquiries for Sixth Form entry or scholarships are welcome at any point up until the deadline date of 1st October, Year 11.

Visiting Marlborough College

A series of Sixth Form visit afternoon events take place during the Summer Term of an applicant’s Year 10 and Michaelmas Term of Year 11. During these events applicants and their parents have an opportunity to meet with members of the College’s Management Team and Admissions Department. There is also a campus tour of the College with current Sixth Form pupils, which includes a visit to a boarding house. Alternatively an appointment for an individual visit to the College can be arranged by contacting the Admissions Department.

Registration

In order to pursue a place and a scholarship at Marlborough College, applicants must first complete and submit an online registration form along with the registration fee no later than 1st October, Year 11.

Enrolment

Enrolment confirms a family’s request for their son or daughter to sit the Sixth Form entry assessment and any additional scholarship assessment(s). An enrolment form will be sent to all applicants who register for Sixth Form entry and should be returned by 1st October, Year 11. Each applicant will be asked to state their provisional subjects they wish to study at A level. Information about the subjects Marlborough offers in the Sixth Form is available on the College website. www.marlboroughcollege.org/academic/curriculum/. On receipt of the enrolment form, a reference will be requested from the applicant’s current school Head as part of the entry assessment process.

Scholarship Application

Scholarship applications are invited at the same time as enrolment, by completing the relevant sections of the enrolment form. This must be submitted by 1st October, Year 11. The scholarships available are: Academic, Music and Sport. Each scholarship subject has particular application requirements. Please refer to the relevant scholarship subject section of this booklet.

Entry Assessment

All external candidates applying to join the College will sit the Sixth Form entry assessments which take place during the first half of November, Year 11. Applicants will be invited to come to the College on one of three assessment dates offered and sit an online test and two examination papers. The papers an applicant sits will depend on the subjects they intend to study at Sixth Form. Sample papers are sent to applicants on receipt of their enrolment form. On assessment day, applicants will also have an interview and those applying for a scholarship will have an additional scholarship assessment, i.e. an Academic scholarship interview or a final Music scholarship audition. Candidates for a Sports scholarship will be invited to a separate Sports scholarship assessment day during the week of the entry assessment.

Offers of Places and Scholarships

Notifications of place offers and scholarships are received on 1st December, Year 11. Offers are subject to an applicant successfully achieving a minimum of six grade 6s in GCSE or IGCSE examinations or equivalent, including English and Mathematics. Please note that this is a minimum requirement and almost all pupils joining Marlborough College Sixth Form will achieve considerably higher grades. Families have one week to either accept or decline an offered place and scholarship. To confirm acceptance, a deposit will be required at the current rate published on the College website. A level subject change requests can be made prior to arrival, although any alterations are subject to timetable availability.

Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Candidates requiring access arrangements such as extra time in 16+ scholarship examinations will need to provide documentation to evidence that this is their normal way of working for public examinations. Eg: an educational psychologists report, written after the candidate’s 14th birthday, in support of their application and by the enrolment deadline of 1st October. All access arrangements will be made as appropriate in individual cases.

Tenure of Scholarships

The performance of all scholars is reviewed on an annual basis by the relevant Director, assisted, as appropriate, by the Deputy Head (Academic), relevant Heads of Department and Housemaster or Housemistress. Continued tenure of a scholarship is always subject to this review of the holder’s industry and conduct. When necessary, the College will give a term’s notice of the intention to remove a scholarship award.