2027 Scholarship exam: dates, timetable and a 12-month plan

The Scholarship exam often weighs more on parents than on the child. But with twelve months ahead, fifteen minutes a day is enough to do it calmly. This post is that plan.

When is the 2027 exam?

The Department of Examinations sets and announces the date; it has fallen in August in recent years, and this post will be updated when the 2027 date is out. Two other dates matter just as much and are easy to miss:

• The application: made through the school, a few months before the exam. Watch for the school's notices.
• The results: usually about two months after the exam.

We do not publish a 2027 date until the Department does. Anything you read elsewhere before that announcement is a guess, including a guess dressed up as a timetable.

The 12-month plan

The plan rests on one idea: short, but often. Fifteen minutes a day, six days a week, is six hours a month, and it does far more than six hours in one sitting.

Months 1 to 3: find the gaps

In the first three months the goal is not marks. It is finding the topics your child is weak in. Give mixed questions from past papers and keep a list of the ones they miss.

Mixed practice beats topic-by-topic drilling here, because the exam itself is mixed. The list of missed questions is the plan for months 4 to 9; without it you are guessing at what your child does not know.

Months 4 to 9: close them, one at a time

Redo the missed questions. Pick one weak topic a week and do its questions from several past papers. When your child sees the same topic asked different ways in different years, they start to understand it instead of memorising it.

Wizder's pool covers 10 sittings (20 papers, 2014 to 2025), which is enough to see the same idea asked four or five different ways. That repetition, not volume, is what moves a mark.

Months 10 to 11: whole papers, on the clock

Now whole papers, timed. Your child should learn not to spend long on questions they already know, and to move on from a hard one instead of stopping at it.

The last month: less, not more

Stop learning new things in the last month. Go back over the questions already missed, and only those. Sleep and calm are worth more than one more paper.

What a parent should actually do each week

• Look at the list of missed questions once a week. Talk about one or two, not all of them.
• Don't ask about marks. "What did you learn today?" is a better question.
• Don't stretch it past fifteen minutes a day. When it gets longer, it stops.

One question, right now

Here is a real question from a past paper, with the answer and the reason. This is what every question inside Wizder looks like.