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3Fill out the application form

After we have received your initial enquiry and discussed the best options for your child, you can register on our Admissions Portal and fill in an application form by 7 March 2025.

You will need to submit a copy of your child’s latest school report via the Admissions Portal in order to complete the application.

Admissions are now closed for 2025/26

Entry is possible at:

Year 1	(equivalent of 8th grade of Czech primary schools, Yr 8 UK)
Year 2	(equivalent of 9th grade of Czech primary schools, Yr 9 UK)
Year 3	(equivalent of 1st year of Czech secondary schools, Yr 10 UK)
Year 4	(equivalent of 2nd year of Czech secondary schools, Yr 11 UK)
Year 5	Year 5 applicants will only be considered under exceptional circumstances. (equivalent of 3rd year of Czech secondary schools, Yr 12 UK)

Candidates for Y1 coming from Czech schools (ZŠ) need to take a combination of State Entrance Exams in Czech and Maths provided by CERMAT and our internal exams in Czech, Maths, English and a diagnostic Non-Verbal Reasoning test. If your child is registered in a Czech school, you will also have to fill in an additional form – the official application for CERMAT exams – by 20 February 2025.

Step 4

4Set up a date for your child's interview with the Headmaster

When we receive the completed application form and the latest school report, our Admissions Registrar will set up a date for your child’s interview with Dr. Nigel Brown, the Headmaster or Tony Emmerson, our Senior Deputy Head.

The interview forms an integral part of the admissions process, it is in English and takes 20 minutes. Its aim is not to eliminate candidates but to enable Dr. Brown to get to know them all a bit better. Your child can expect questions about their favourite subjects, hobbies, plans for the future, reasons for applying to ECP etc. Parents don’t need to be present but are welcome to join if they wish to do so.

Step 5

5Entrance exam requirements and examples

You should know before you apply that all candidates need to sit written entrance exams in English, Mathematics, non-verbal skills and also Czech, if they speak the language. Exams will be set at the level appropriate for the expected year of entry.

Mock Entrance Exams

An invitation will be sent to all registered candidates in January.

Once you have submitted the application form and your child has completed the interview, we will give your child a chance to take a mock entrance exam on the 22nd or 23rd of January 2025.

Prepare for the Entrance Exams

Samples of internal test papers as well as our requirements for exams are available on the ECP website (down below).

Entrance Exam Requirements & Examples

Step 6

6Take the entrance exams

The dates of entrance exams are specified here and in our Admissions Procedure for the Academic Year 2024/2025. Criteria can be found here.

Entrance Examinations

1.	Entrance Examinations to Y1 - 1st round
	• CERMAT State Entrance Examinations	15 and 16 April 2025
	• Internal Entrance Examinations	1 April 2025
2.	Entrance Examinations to Y1 - 2nd round	1 April 2025
3.	Entrance Examinations to Y2	1 April 2025
4.	Entrance Examinations to Y3	1 April 2025
5.	Entrance Examinations to Y4	1 April 2025

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