Students will participate in a group interview. Applicants are interviewed for approximately 60 minutes. The Pre-Kindergarten interviews are age appropriate.
Please prepare your children before the interview that they will be going into the classroom without you. This is important that your child can be observed working independently and responding to the teachers in the classroom. The activities will be enjoyable for your child during the interview.
Parents are asked to wait for their children in a room next to the interview. You will also be given a short survey to complete regarding your child’s development.

Pre-Kindergarten Applicants will be interviewed for:

• Personal/Social/Emotional Development
• Self-Help skills
• Fine Motor skills
• Gross Motor skills
• Cognitive skills
• Oral Language skills

Kindergarten

Application Deadline: February 17, 2025

Interview Dates: March 24,25,26, 2025

Students will participate in a group interview. Applicants are interviewed for approximately 60 minutes. The Pre-Kindergarten interviews are age appropriate.

Please prepare your children before the interview that they will be going into the classroom without you. This is important that your child can be observed working independently and responding to the teachers in the classroom. The activities will be enjoyable for your child during the interview.
Parents are asked to wait for their children in a room next to the interview. You will also be given a short survey to complete regarding your child’s development.

Kindergarten Applicants will be interviewed for:

•   Personal/Social/Emotional development
•   Self-help skills
•   Fine motor skills
•   Large motor skills
•   Cognitive skills
•   Oral language skills

Grade 1

Application Deadline: April 11, 2025

Interview Dates: May 7, 2025

Grade 1 Applicants will be interviewed for:

• Pre-Literacy Component -Letters- Colours (Harf-Ses-Renk tanıma)
• Listening to a simple text, retelling and answering comprehension questions basedon story elements (Okunan hikayeyi dinleme, hikaye unsurlarına göre özetleme ve cevaplama)
• Drawing a picture (Resim çizme)
• Number recognition 1-20 (rakam tanıma 1-20)
• Item Counting (Rakam sayma)
• Gross/Fine Motor Skills (Büyük/Küçük Motor Becerileri)
• Shapes (Şekiller)
• Emerging writing and reading language skills (in English)

Elementary School (Grades 2-3-4)

Application Deadline: April 11, 2025

Assessment Date: May 7, 2025

August Assesment Date: TBD

Application Deadline: April 25, 2025

Assessment Date: May 10, 2025

August Assessment Date: TBD

Once the BLIS on-line application form has been completed and received, students applying to grades 5-8 are tested for entry on two formal entrance examination dates in May and August. The May date is open for all applicants, whereas the August date is typically reserved for overseas applicant. These examinations are used for establishing entrance to the school and for grade placement purposes. In addition to these entrance exams, all applicants are required to submit academic records of their two most recent school years and, where appropriate, previous school staff is consulted in order to establish as clear a picture as possible of the applicant. The entrance procedures are designed to establish, to the best of our ability, those candidates who will be able to successfully access the curriculum that we offer and proceed through the academic program with success. It is the school’s suitability for the individual applicant, rather than the applicant’s suitability for the school, which is paramount importance throughout the decision making process. Applications are considered by the Admission Committee and recommendations made.