Information and familiarisation materials, so your child can show themselves at their best.
Guidance for the St Edmund's Canterbury Quest assessment
Information and familiarisation materials, so your child can show themselves at their best.
The St Edmund's School Canterbury Quest assessment is computer-based.
2 subjects over 50 minutes:
Sections are largely multiple choice and do not require typing or keyboard skills. Maths adapts in difficulty based on your child's answers. English is fixed difficulty.
4 subjects over 85 minutes:
Sections are largely multiple choice and do not require typing or keyboard skills. Maths adapts in difficulty based on your child's answers. Creative Comprehension, English and Puzzles and Problem Solving are fixed difficulty.
During the assessment, your child will see a countdown clock on screen showing how long they have left for each section. It is clearly visible without being distracting.
If your child is eligible for extra time, please indicate this when you apply to St Edmund's. The additional time will then be added automatically to the on-screen timer for each section.
In adaptive sections, questions get harder or easier as your child works through them, so each question is pitched at the right level for them. This helps every child have a positive experience. Because each question depends on the answers before it, children are not able to skip questions or go back and change their answers.
We recommend that your child tries the familiarisation exercise below to get a feel for the online format.
Beyond that, the assessment is based on the National Curriculum and on skills your child is already developing at school, such as reading a passage and answering questions on it. They will not need any special tuition or intensive practice. Instead, we encourage them to read widely.
In English, your child shouldn't worry if they come across words they don't know, as working out meaning from context is one of the skills being assessed.
Click below to complete a familiarisation exercise for St Edmund's School Canterbury. You'll see examples of the style of questions your child might see in the assessment.
This is a chance for your child to see how the assessment works, and build familiarity with how to answer questions.
Quest Assessments is an exam provider used by schools across the UK and internationally.
Our assessments are designed to ensure that schools can accurately identify the students who will thrive at their school. They are interesting, engaging assessments that allow candidates to show themselves at their best.
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If your child is pupil premium eligible, please fill in the form by clicking the button below. They will be given free access to Atom Home when their eligibility has been verified by their primary school.
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