Selective programmes

Every route runs backwards from a date.

Give a child’s age and a destination. The map shows the rungs between the two — what is still ahead, what has already gone, and where the preparation exists.

This map is a suggestion, not a schedule. It shows one sensible way to build practice and proficiency toward a destination — every child prepares differently, and reaching a rung is never a guarantee of a place.

Year 7 · admissions gate
20rungs still ahead

Admissions gate · Engineering & science

Engineering and Science Admissions Test

The next thing is the Physics Year. It runs for one academic year from August and prepares the transition the route ahead assumes — four of the destinations on this map begin with it.

The whole route is ahead. Engineering and Science Admissions Test asks for 26 rungs between Year 7 and Year 13, and none has passed.

Troupe teaches 8 of them today; the rest are still in build.


The line

Ahead of youPriming yearNot yet taughtAlready behindInterchangeDestination
THE PUPIL, NOWY711Junior MathematicalChallengeWed 5 May 20276Junior MathematicalOlympiadTue 15 Jun 20272Salters' Festivalsof ChemistryDiscovery Days Mar–Jun2Y812Y913The Physics YearOne academic year · from4IntermediateMathematicalChallengeWed 27 Jan 20277Cayley OlympiadThu 18 Mar 20277Top of the Benchprelim Nov 2026 · regionalBiology Challengelate Apr – early May 20272Y1014BPhO Junior PhysicsChallengeprov. 23 Apr – 14 May 20273Hamilton OlympiadThu 18 Mar 20277Y1115Choosing A-levelsspring 2027BPhO IntermediatePhysics Challengeprov. Fri 12 Mar 20273Maclaurin OlympiadThu 18 Mar 20277Y1216Test account opens1 Jun 2026 · confirm3The module decisionsettled by Mon 28 Sep 2026BPhO Senior PhysicsChallengeprov. Fri 5 Mar 20274Senior MathematicalChallengeWed 7 Oct 20269Cambridge ChemistryChallenge (C3L6)Jun 2027 · camp late Aug2Y1317Booking opensMon 20 Jul 20263A-level PhysicsChallengeSep – Nov 20262Booking deadlineMon 28 Sep 20263ESAT12–16 Oct 2026UCAS deadline18:00, Thu 15 Oct 20263ResultsMon 16 Nov 2026 · confirm3BPhO Round 1prov. Fri 13 Nov 20262January sitting4–8 Jan 2027

Junior Mathematical Challenge

Y7–8 · Appetite, not content

Wed 5 May 2027

What it asks forAttempts twenty-five unfamiliar questions in an hour without stalling on any single one.
PreparationNot yet offered
Interchange · this rung also serves 5 destinations