• Year 7-10

  • 2022 Victorian Selective Entry Test Results

like is there any way my current school can help me get in? or not

katie No not really... The only thing that bypasses the 4% rule is the equality thingy (I forgot what it's called)

      The equity consideration category

      katie
      It's like when you sign up to do the test, you have to say if your parents have a health care card or pension card or you're an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. You can't file for it now though.

          katie
          "Students are eligible for a place in the equity consideration category if they:
          • have parents with either a Commonwealth Health Care Card or a Pension Card, and who
          qualify for income support benefits.
          • identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders on the application form.
          Eligibility for the equity consideration category is verified at the application stage."

            Hi all, does anyone know when the late offer dates are, and how many there will be? Thanks.

              quasi There's 5 rounds this year, and the third round would be on Wednesday, October 19th. Not sure about the last two though.

                katie From my understanding, PD applications usually have to get invited to apply through similar means to the actual invitations (via email in the following rounds). The PD category is much more flexible in terms of who is invited to apply, though, and much more is taken into account than academic performance/ performance on the entrance exam.

                While your scores were very high, the capacity at your school was only 2 people - which was likely what led to you not receiving an offer due to the 4% rule. My understanding is that the PD category doesn’t have to correspond with the 4% rule.

                Best of luck!!

                    @"Ommahp"#p9379I
                    I think that the 4% rule doesn’t apply to the PD category, seeing as their main target group are people who missed out because of that constraint (I.e people who missed out by 5 marks or less). That might be what is meant by ‘infinite PDs’

                    Though, I’m not sure about how this affects public or private schools differently as this wasn’t mentioned in the information book at all - we were all dealing with the same resources.

                    Ommahp This could definitely vary due to outside factors between schools, though, such as academic interest or distance from the actual school. I think it’s hard to give an exact estimate for any offers handed out in subsequent rounds.

                      Gorno
                      You’re right, one of the selection categories for PD is those who missed out because of 4%. That’s why that constraint doesn’t apply to PD.

                        katie

                        I know that some people deliberately switch to less competitive schools shortly before the test as it makes it much easier for them to get in than at their normal school. That might have been the case with your classmate.

                          katie
                          well, on https://selectivehighschools.education/faq/ it said:

                          How does the selection process work?
                          A centralised selection process is used whereby every applicant must sit the entry examination. While each school fills 85% of its Year 9 enrolment based on a student’s performance in the exam, there are a range of variables that may affect final offers each year. These include:

                          Variable entry score from year to year depending on the demand for places at the school and the scores achieved by those students who have listed the school as their first preference.
                          Only a maximum of 4% of students in Year 8 from any one school can be accepted into a selective entry high school. Students currently enrolled in an interstate or overseas school are treated as discrete school cohorts, with an average Year 8 enrolment figure used to determine the number of places available.
                          Up to 10% of enrolments are filled through the Equity Consideration category.
                          Up to 5% of the enrolment will be filled through the Principal’s Discretion category.

                          And I also saw in the information pack for 2023 on page 10:

                          6.2 Principal’s discretion category
                          The Principal of each Selective Entry High School has the authority to offer up to 5% of places
                          under the principal’s discretion category, as long as this does not exceed the Year 8 quota of
                          students from any single school.
                          Principals from each Selective Entry High School identify from the examination results those
                          students who they wish to invite to submit an application under the principal’s discretion category.
                          These applications, including the due dates for submission, are handled by the individual schools.
                          An invitation to submit an application for a principal’s discretion category is not an offer of a place
                          at the school. The principals shortlist and interview students from the applications received, and
                          make offers directly to students.
                          If a student accepts an offer at a Selective Entry High School and receives an offer to apply for
                          principal’s discretion for a higher preference school, the student can retain the initial offer while the
                          principal’s discretion process is undertaken.

                          5% of 52 is 2.6, so 2 or 3 people could be able to get in through PD, though i'm pretty sure the PD offers ended on Oct 7 for Mac.Rob.

                              did you guys know PD applicants can get second round offers? That's what happened to me. I was offered Nossal and MHS PD but then received a second round offer soo yeah