Entrance testing

Year 5

Year 5 entrance testing OR try a day in the Junior School
For entry to: Year 5 2025, Year 5 2026

(please note there are now limited places available for entry to Year 5 in 2025)

Girls wishing to start at Abbotsleigh in Year 5 are initially waitlisted and then invited to spend a day at the Junior School, allowing your daughter to experience the School and interact with other students. Some assessment testing will take place on this day. This Try day may occur from Year 3 onwards.

Please contact the Registrar by email to request a try day. Please include your daughter’s most recent school report so that we may build her enrolment file.

Please note:
Families may select to either have their daughter attend a try day OR register for the formal entrance exam. The next entrance exam date is Saturday 26 October 2024.

Please select the Year 5 exam when registering to attend the formal entrance exam.

Year 7

Entrance testing

Year 7 new day students gain entry via an entrance test which is held twice a year from the commencement of Year 3 onwards.

The entrance test is held at Abbotsleigh on a Saturday morning, 8.30 am start and finishing at 12 noon.

The testing is age specific, therefore if your daughter is taking the test when in Year 3 she will sit a Year 3 exam paper and the same follows for Year 4 and Year 5.

The format and content of the examination: generally, there are multiple choice tasks to test reasoning ability, reading/comprehension, mathematical ability, and a written expression task.

Saturday 26 October 2024
For entry to: Year 7 2025, Year 7 2026, Year 7 2027, Year 7 2028

Testing for entry to Abbotsleigh in Year 7 will take place on Saturday 26 October 2024.

Girls in Year 3 and up are invited to register for the entrance test.

Online registration is now closed.

Parents will be contacted by email advising the outcome from their daughter’s testing. We expect this will take place approximately 6 to 8 weeks after the exam date.