Online Educational Psychology Assessments for Virtus College Madrid Students
Virtus College is the British Sixth Form College in Madrid, serving only Year 12 and Year 13 students aged 15 to 18. The school was founded in 2016 by alumni of Oxford University and Imperial College London and operates under the non-profit Schools Trust. The campus sits at Calle Salvia 46 in Alcobendas, in the La Moraleja area on the northern edge of Madrid.
The total enrolment is around 90 students across the two year groups, with classes averaging five students and capped at ten. The staff-to-student ratio is 1:4. Annual tuition is EUR 23,500, with a higher first-year fee of approximately EUR 31,700 due to one-off enrolment costs. Residential accommodation is available for international students.
Virtus students follow International A Levels alongside an Enrichment Programme covering subjects such as Politics and International Relations, Digital Media, Coding, and Young Enterprise.
Every student is assigned a personal mentor for the two-year journey, with one-on-one guidance across academic progress, careers preparation, personal development, and wellbeing. The school’s Gate-to-Gate Model produces a personalised academic and development strategy for each student from day one, with university preparation heavily emphasised including Oxbridge, Imperial, and Ivy League admissions support.
When to Commission a Psycoeducational & Neurodevelopmental Assessment from Global Education Testing
When parents or teachers at Virtus College suspect learning difficulties such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, ADHD, anxiety, autism spectrum profiles, executive function difficulties, processing speed difficulties, or working memory weaknesses, the first place to start is a comprehensive psychoeducational assessment.
A single-condition screen is not enough. A dyslexia-only screen tells the family whether dyslexia is present and stops. A screen for any single named condition does the same. It does not capture the ADHD that often co-occurs with dyslexia, the anxiety that often co-occurs with both, or the executive function profile that shapes how the student experiences all of them.
For a Virtus student in particular, the two-year A Level timeline leaves no room for delay. Students arrive at age 15 or 16 from another school, often from another country, with examinations across both years rather than concentrated at the end of Year 13.
The Gate-to-Gate personalisation model depends on a complete and current understanding of each student’s cognitive and academic profile. A comprehensive assessment provides the depth the school’s mentor model is designed to use, and the documentation the JCQ access arrangements process specifically requires.
What a Global Education Testing Assessment Delivers
Global Education Testing Madrid has worked with many Virtus College students over the years. The comprehensive psychoeducational and neurodevelopmental assessment is delivered by HCPC-registered educational psychologists via secure video link, with the full process running over 21 days from initial enquiry to delivery of the written report.
The assessment examines cognitive abilities, working memory, processing speed, academic achievement in reading, spelling, written expression, and mathematics, attention regulation, executive functioning, emotional wellbeing, behavioural and social functioning, and learning differences across the full clinical range.
The diagnostic report is suitable for JCQ for International A Level access arrangements (including the Form 8 where required), the College Board for SAT, ACT, AP, and PSAT accommodations, admissions test accommodations for selective UK and US universities (MAT, STEP, TMUA, PAT, TSA, BMAT, UCAT, LNAT, HAT, ELAT), and university learning support services across the destinations Virtus graduates reach.
The accommodations the report can unlock include extra time in examinations, supervised rest breaks, a separate examination room, the use of a word processor, a reader, a scribe, modified paper formats, a prompter for students with attention difficulties, and permission to take medication during examinations.