13+ Academic Scholarship Guidance and Sample Papers
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MFL (French & Spanish)
The test will consist of a grammar-focused reading comprehension question on a GCSE theme, and two translations: one into French, and one into English.
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Religion and Philosophy
Candidates will write a single evaluative essay (discussing different points of view and coming to a conclusion).
The topics will be broad, to be accessible to pupils with highly varied experiences of Religious Studies at their previous schools.
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English
One 30-minute analytical essay from a choice of 3 topics
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History
Part A.
An historical source is provided. Question asks how this source might be useful in studying something. No prior knowledge of the period required but objective would be to test their use of sources.
Part B.
Choice of 3 questions based on an historic topic. Answer one of the 3, look to establish an argument for and against.
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Latin
- Translation of a simple passage into English.
- Translation of three simple Subject-Verb-Object type sentences into Latin. (Vocab given)
- Parsing some Latin words: Identifying Case and Number of nouns and Tense of verbs (from Present, Imperfect and Perfect)
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Mathematics
The test will consist of a grammar-focused reading comprehension question on a GCSE theme, and two translations: one into French, and one into English.
Candidates will write a single evaluative essay (discussing different points of view and coming to a conclusion).
The topics will be broad, to be accessible to pupils with highly varied experiences of Religious Studies at their previous schools.
One 30-minute analytical essay from a choice of 3 topics
Part A.
An historical source is provided. Question asks how this source might be useful in studying something. No prior knowledge of the period required but objective would be to test their use of sources.
Part B.
Choice of 3 questions based on an historic topic. Answer one of the 3, look to establish an argument for and against.
- Translation of a simple passage into English.
- Translation of three simple Subject-Verb-Object type sentences into Latin. (Vocab given)
- Parsing some Latin words: Identifying Case and Number of nouns and Tense of verbs (from Present, Imperfect and Perfect)