UPDATED April 2024: Twyford School Music Aptitude Test for 2025 Secondary School Admissions

I grew up in Ealing so Twyford was one of the schools I applied to just over 30 years ago. (In the end I went to Drayton Manor High School, if you’re curious!).

Dates for your diary:

The Twyford Music Aptitude Test Round One takes place 3rd & 4th October.

The highest scoring students will be invited to come into school for a second formal assessment. This will take place on Friday 18th of October. Results will be sent out by Friday 25th of October.

There’s plenty of time to prepare for these tests and now is the ideal time to start prepping well in advance of the tests in Autumn 2024. We offer 1-to-1 lessons to help you prepare for the Aptitude Tests and we have successfully tutored many students for Twyford High School over the past decade. See below to book a 1-to-1 lesson or click here. You can also download our training test materials that are suitable for all UK state secondary schools to help familiarise you with the style of tests you will hear on the day. You can read more about that here.

Round One:
Unseen listening test designed to assess students’ ability to discern and discriminate between different pitches, rhythms, chords and melodies. This test will be carried out in the Twyford Performance Centre under exam conditions in one hour.
This is marked out of 60.

Round Two:
The highest scoring students will be invited to come into school for a second
formal assessment. They will be given a series of aural tests during which time they will be required to clap or play back various rhythms and pitches using classroom instruments. They will also listen to some recordings and identify the instruments being used. This will take approximately 20 minutes. Marked out of 40.