SEAG Transfer Test Update

Registration Update -over 8500 Applications received

Hi - In the first 6 weeks of Registration we received around 8600 Applications, About 750 more parents have started their Application. We are continuing to work our way through verification as quickly as possible, contacting parents if there is an issue, sorting issues out, responding to Support requests and carrying out other admin work. We have been working really hard. Around 5950 have now been verified.

Although parents have until 19th September 2025 to make an Application if you are in a position to complete and submit the Form in the next few weeks you could have a wider choice of Assessment Centres than if you leave it later.

If you have submitted your Application please do not email us asking when your Application will be verified. We are not in a position, to tell any parent when their Application will be verified. We have made it very clear to parents that we will contact them if there is an issue.

It will continue to take some time to verify all these applications. Please be patient.

Please take care to follow the very clear guidance about acceptable photographic identification. The photograph is needed for the Pupil Card.

Please take care if you applying for Free School Meals payment exemption. You must show evidence from EA, of APPROVAL by them , not your application to EA and the approval must be current and give the name of the child.

Registration for the 2025 SEAG Entrance Assessment Opened at 8.00am Monday 19th May and continues until 19th September 2025.

Parents / Guardians create a SEAG Account and then make a Pupil Application to register their child. PLEASE take care to follow the guidance at the various steps in the

Application and take time to check that the information you are providing is accurate.

To assist parents who are considering registering their children, two new documents were added, in May 2025 at the bottom of "Guidance for Parents - Resources":

"The 2025 Entrance Assessment- Presentation for Parents, Guardians and Teachers"

AND

"The 2025 Entrance Assessment - Summary for Parents, Guardians and Teachers"

The Presentation is a series of slides including General Information, Key Dates, the Registration Process, Entrance Assessment Papers, SEAG Outcomes (the results) and the role of SEAG Assessment Centres.

The Summary document takes key information from the Presentation and focuses on the various steps involved in making a Pupil Application.

All 63 schools which were SEAG members for 2024 remain as SEAG members for 2025 and so we have 63 Assessment Centres this year. The list of all 63 schools is given in the "Guidance for Parents" - " Member Schools" section of our website.

2025-26 Key Dates

Saturday 15th November 2025 (AM): Entrance Assessment Paper 1

Saturday 22nd November 2025 (AM): Entrance Assessment Paper 2

Saturday 24th January 2026: SEAG Outcomes released

2025 Registration Period

Monday 19th May 2025 - Friday 19th September 2025

NB Only pupils who have been registered for the 2025 SEAG Entrance Assessment will be able to sit the Entrance Assessment.