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Many boys today begin their prep school careers in the pre-prep. This is a realtively new phenomenon, virtuually unknown before World War II. Many schools divide the school into junior, middle, and senior sections. Terms vary from school to school. Some schools call the pre-prep the junior school. Most children enter the regular prep school at age 7 or 8. Schools have varying entry requirements. For most chldren in the pre-prep, entry in the prep school is virtually automatic. And because the staff is already working with the child, the approriate time can be determined. Not all prep schools have pre-preps Schools have varying entry requirements. Most want the children to have basic reading and math schools. A few schools have entrance examinations. Progression through the schools is through grades called forms in Britain. Most prep schools have six forms, based on the arrangement at the public schools for which they are preparing the children. Marks or grades are an important part of prep school life. Most prep school place considerable emphasis on academics and standing in class tends to be very competitive. Marks tend to be very serious business at prep schools. The culmination of prep school life is the Common Entrance Examination the children take in the summer term of their last year.
The Junior school has a reception class for boys of 4 1/2 - 6 years of age and two other classes for 6 -9 years.
At the age of 8 or 9 a boy moves into the Junior school to a study programme which includes English, Mathematics, History, Georgaphy, Scripture, French, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Those boys to whom the subject is thought to be of nenefit start Latin studies at the age of 10. It is when a boy reaches 9 or 10 years of age that the Headmaster carries out his personal duty to advise parents as to the sort of school for which their sons should be trained during subsequent years in the middle school and 6th form.
On reaching the 6th form, boys take their first public examination -- Common Entrance in the Lower 6th and public school scholarships in the Upper 6th.
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