Policy 13 and the 11+ form, September 2027 entry
Book a Free ConsultationNorth London Collegiate School is a school for girls aged 4-18 in Edgware. Its Admissions Policy says that if travel to the UK is not possible, the School can arrange for 11+ papers to be sent to the applicant’s current school, to be sat under supervised exam conditions. For Year 7 entry in September 2027, registration closes at 4.00pm on Friday 13 November 2026; the exam is on Thursday 3 December 2026.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsAppSection 13 of the North London Collegiate School (NLCS) Admissions Policy is headed “Overseas applications”, and the 11+ registration form has a box under the same heading, “Overseas applications”. The policy is the version linked from the school’s Policies page; its front page gives “Date of Authorisation March 2026” and “Date of Next Review March 2027”. The two texts are set side by side below.
The form’s Current School Details section says “If you cannot find your daughter's current school please tick this box and enter the details in the fields that will appear”. Among the examples the form gives of how the School will use the information on it is “we may ask for information about other schools to which you are applying because they may hold their entrance exam on the same day as ours;”
Policy 10.1 says “The entrance examination takes place in December.” and “Candidates sit papers set by the School in Mathematics and English”. The term-dates page lists “11+ entrance examination (holiday for Y7-Y13)” against “Thursday 3 December” under AUTUMN 2026. For how the test differs from one London school to the next, see which test each London school sets; the format of the NLCS papers is covered on our North London Collegiate School 11+ page.
Clause 7.1 of the policy introduces its list with “candidates must meet the following criteria:”. The lines a family abroad meets first sit beside the form below.
For the role of an education guardian in general, see our guide to educational guardians.
Under Immigration the form asks for a copy of a time restricted or temporary visa: “If your daughter has or will have a time restricted or temporary visa in any other immigration category (for example, as a dependent) please provide a copy of this when returning this form if you have it or as soon as you have it.” It adds “Please note that we reserve the right to:” and, as the second item, “to share information with UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) and the Home Office for the purposes of compliance with our responsibilities as a licenced sponsor.” Our Child Student visa guide covers the visa route for 13+ boarding entry; which immigration category, if any, applies to an 11+ applicant is a question for the school.
Policy 16.1 begins “We recognise that a candidate’s performance may be affected by particular circumstances, for example if:” and its list includes “there is relevant educational history, for example, education outside the British system”.
Every date comes from NLCS’s own pages, and each row links the page that holds it. The status column is read on Saturday 10 October 2026.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsApp| Date | What the school’s page lists | Status on 10 October 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 1 May 2026 | “Registration opens” | Passed: registration opened on this date. |
| Thursday 10 September and Thursday 1 October 2026, 9.00am | “Senior School In Action – Thursday 10 September, 9.00am” and “Senior School In Action – Thursday 1 October, 9.00am” | Passed; the visit page lists each as “Fully booked”. |
| Wednesday 4 November 2026, 9.00am | “Senior School In Action – Wednesday 4 November, 9.00am” | Ahead; the visit page lists “Book your place”. |
| Friday 13 November 2026, 4.00pm | “Registration closes” | Ahead. |
| After registration closes | “Once registration has closed, we will request confidential references from your daughter’s primary school.” | Ahead. |
| Thursday 3 December 2026 | “Entrance exam” | Ahead. |
| Monday 11 to Friday 22 January 2027 | “Interviews” | Ahead. |
| Friday 12 February 2027 | “Offers notified” | Ahead. |
| Early March 2027 | “Acceptance by” “Early March 2027 (TBC)” | Ahead; the page marks it TBC. |
| Thursday 2 September 2027 | “Pupil Orientation Day” | Ahead; listed under AUTUMN 2027 on the term-dates page. |
| Friday 3 September 2027 | “Autumn Term begins” | Ahead; listed under AUTUMN 2027 on the term-dates page. |
The visit page prints the In Action mornings as weekday and date without a year; those pairs fall in 2026. Policy 6.2 says “All families applying are encouraged to visit the School on an Open Event or make an appointment to visit the School during a working day.”
Policy 10.2 says “The candidate's present school is asked for a reference.” Policy 10.1 says “Entry to Year 7 is at age 11.” Our guide to which UK year group a child moving from abroad belongs in explains how a school year abroad maps onto UK Year 7, and our guide to applying for a Year 7 place from abroad covers the route through a local council.
The Joining the Senior School page lists registration as closing at “Friday 13 November 2026 – 4.00pm”. The conversions below read that as UK time, so each is labelled “if this is UK time”. GOV.UK says “In the UK the clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on the last Sunday in March, and back 1 hour at 2am on the last Sunday in October.” and “When the clocks go back, the UK is on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).”. Its table lists the clocks going back on 25 October 2026 and forward on 28 March 2027, so London is on GMT, UTC+0, on Friday 13 November 2026.
| Place | Offset from UTC | Working, if 4.00pm on Friday 13 November 2026 is UK time | Local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| London (GMT) | UTC+0 | 4.00pm GMT = 16:00 UTC | 16:00 on Friday 13 November 2026 |
| Dubai/UAE and Oman | UTC+4 | 16:00 + 4 hours | 20:00 on Friday 13 November 2026 |
| Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia | UTC+3 | 16:00 + 3 hours | 19:00 on Friday 13 November 2026 |
| Hong Kong and Singapore | UTC+8 | 16:00 + 8 hours = 24:00 | 00:00 on Saturday 14 November 2026, the midnight at the end of Friday |
Source: offsets from the IANA time zone database (release 2026e): Asia/Dubai, Asia/Qatar, Asia/Riyadh, Asia/Singapore and Asia/Hong_Kong in the asia file, and the backward file, where Muscat follows Dubai, Bahrain follows Qatar and Kuwait follows Riyadh; UK clock dates from GOV.UK.
London is also on GMT on Thursday 3 December 2026, from Monday 11 to Friday 22 January 2027 and on Friday 12 February 2027, so a time the school gives in UK time for those days converts by the same hours: Dubai/UAE and Oman 4 ahead, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia 3 ahead, Hong Kong and Singapore 8 ahead. Our time zones guide shows the same arithmetic for other deadlines.
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The page numbers the stages. Stage 3 reads “Everyone who has registered for the 11+ entry by the deadline will be invited to take an entrance exam.” Stage 4 reads “Following the entrance exam, a number of students will be invited back to school for a 30 minute interview.” and adds “During the interview there will be further Maths and English testing, in the form of verbal questions.” “Parents are not interviewed as part of our admissions process.” The interviews are listed for “Monday 11 to Friday 22 January 2027”.
Stage 5 reads “Following interviews, those students who have been selected for a place to start in September will be sent an offer by email. Everyone who has been offered a place will be invited to an offer holders’ event at school, in plenty of time to help you make a decision.” The offer date is “Friday 12 February 2027” and acceptance is “Early March 2027 (TBC)”.
The form asks the parent to confirm “I understand that no feedback will be given following my daughter's assessment(s).” How the 30 minute interview is held for a girl living abroad is a question to put to admissions in writing, and it is in the list below; our video interviews guide covers online interviews for overseas 11+ and 13+ entry in general.
Write to admissions@nlcs.org.uk, the address the Joining the Senior School page lists for “The Admissions Department”, and keep the reply. The table below links the words each question rests on.
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Book a Free Consultation Message us on WhatsApp| Question for admissions | Where the words come from |
|---|---|
| Our daughter’s current school is outside the UK. Can it host the NLCS paper, and if it cannot, which facility will you accept where we live: a British Consulate or the British Council? Will you confirm the arrangement to us in writing, and which person at her school should we name in the Overseas Examination box? | “under supervised exam conditions”, “a British Consulate”, “the British Council” and “Contact name and position of the person responsible for arranging exams”. |
| What date and start time, on which clock, applies to our daughter’s overseas sitting, and is it the same as the school’s Thursday 3 December 2026 exam? | “Entrance exam” |
| Another school’s exam falls on the same day as NLCS’s for us. What should we tell you, as the form says you may ask about other schools we are applying to? | “they may hold their entrance exam on the same day as ours;” |
| If our daughter is invited to interview between Monday 11 and Friday 22 January 2027, how is the 30 minute interview held for a girl living abroad, and which dates would she need? | “invited back to school” |
| The policy asks for an appropriate guardian where the family is not resident in the UK; the form says pupils are expected to live with a parent in the locality. Which applies to us, and what must a guardian show to be appropriate? | “an appropriate guardian has been arranged” and “live with a parent in the locality”. |
| Which immigration category, if any, does the school expect for our daughter, which documents should we send with the form, and by when? | “Parents must be able to provide evidence if applicable.” and “if you have it or as soon as you have it”. |
| Once registration has closed, what does the school need from her current school for the reference it requests, and can that school send it from abroad? | “we will request confidential references from your daughter’s primary school” |
| We live outside the UK. Does the condition on the school’s Bursaries page about the UK tax residence of the fee-paying parents apply to our family? | Bursaries page: “resident in the UK for tax purposes” |
Clause 13.1 begins “If travel to the UK is not possible” and goes on to say that the School can arrange for papers to be sent to the applicant’s current school, where the applicant must sit the exams “under supervised exam conditions”. Clause 13.2 names “a British Consulate” if her school cannot host, while the form names “the British Council”. The school’s page lists the entrance exam on Thursday 3 December 2026; the date of an overseas sitting is a question for admissions. Registration closes at 4.00pm on Friday 13 November 2026. Ask admissions to confirm the facility in writing.
Clause 7.1 lists “Where a candidate’s family is not resident in the UK, an appropriate guardian has been arranged.” The registration form says “This is a day school and has no boarding facilities; pupils will be expected to live with a parent in the locality.” The two sentences sit in different documents, so put the question to admissions in writing and ask what makes a guardian appropriate. Registration closes at 4.00pm on Friday 13 November 2026.
Clause 7.1 asks that she “Have the appropriate immigration permission to live in the United Kingdom and to study at this School.” and the form asks “If your daughter is not a British or Irish citizen, does she hold another immigration category that permits her to study at the school?” Which category, if any, applies to her is a question for admissions: offers are notified on Friday 12 February 2027 and the Autumn Term begins on Friday 3 September 2027.
Clause 7.1 says “If English is not their first language, candidates must demonstrate a satisfactory level of spoken and written English in order to engage and participate fully in all aspects of School life” The form asks “Please select your daughter's first language” and “Please select all languages spoken at home”. The entrance exam is on Thursday 3 December 2026.
The Joining the Senior School page lists registration as closing at “Friday 13 November 2026 – 4.00pm”. If this is UK time, London is on GMT (UTC+0), so it is 20:00 on Friday 13 November in Dubai/UAE and Oman (UTC+4), 19:00 in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia (UTC+3), and 00:00 on Saturday 14 November in Hong Kong and Singapore (UTC+8), because 16:00 + 8 hours is 24:00.
The school’s wording is “Following the entrance exam, a number of students will be invited back to school for a 30 minute interview.” and the interviews are listed for “Monday 11 to Friday 22 January 2027”. It adds “During the interview there will be further Maths and English testing, in the form of verbal questions.” How a girl living abroad is interviewed is a question to put to admissions in writing.
The form says “We will not be able to accept any applications received after the deadline.” The Occasional Places section of the Joining the Senior School page, which is about Years 8, 9 and 10, says “Please do not use this form if you are seeking a Year 7 place, as Year 7 entry is only available through the standard 11+ admissions process.” The deadline is 4.00pm on Friday 13 November 2026.
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