Common Entrance

Pupils from Aberlour were always admitted to Gordonstoun despite failing the common entrance exam, she said.

"Following a meeting with the schools which use the Common Entrance Assessment, produced by AQE Limited, it has been agreed that to enable the assessment to take place in the current circumstances, the assessment will be reduced to a single paper to be held on Saturday 27 February, provided it can take place in public health circumstances then prevailing," it said.

In a statement on Friday, the board of AQE said they wanted "to provide further clarity to parents and candidates who are concerned about the potential impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic on the Common Entrance Assessment."

“The bottom line, we’ve always known that the area of sexual medicine is a common entrance into the health care system,” Dr. Lamm said.

He was flying to New York to spend the summer helping to prepare a 12-year-old boy for the Common Entrance exam - a test taken by children applying to private secondary schools.