Ask me questions about Nossal High School

Ommahp

Hi everyone! I am currently a Year 9 student as Nossal High School and I wanted to make a forum where any of next year's Year 9 students can ask me any questions about the school. Feel free to ask anything, whether its about subjects, timetable, clubs, etc. I will also be one of the Year 9 Mentors on orientation day so I can answer any questions about that as well.

Average Guy

Ommahp

Hi I was wondering if you could help me with the maths side of the exam?

AaronForSelective

Ommahp

What were your scores?

vicky99

Thanks for posting this.
My son is sitting for the selective exam this year and we lie in Berwick.
I am a lil' confused between Melb High Vs Nossal.

What's your thoughts please? Hows Nossal compared to melb high in terms of extra-curricular activities apart from Academics?
Any help is appreciated.
Regards

Ommahp

vicky99
Hi, I also don't know much about Melbourne High School but what I can say about Nossal is that we have a lot of different clubs and there's also a big emphasis on music. We have Year 9 Choral where once a week all the years 9s will have a class for choir (I believe Melbourne High does this as well or in some other form). We also have HPAF where each house creates a 20-30 minute play and competes to win. There are also a lot of bands and orchestras that perform at concerts, competitions and assemblies. I'm not overly involved in a lot of extracurriculars, however I am in debating club this year and I do plan on being more involved in HPAF.
Hopefully this helps a little bit but I do recommend going to school tours, especially for Melbourne High to get more information.

Cr7fan

Hello.
I am trying selective year 10 entry
Any tips would be appreciated
I do soccer outside of school
I am in the school table tennis, tennis and badminton team
I do volunteering at local food bank every week
I do VSL
I am in higher achievers program In my current school
I have 7 testimonials/references

Ommahp

Cr7fan
It's very good that you have a lot of extracurriculars, schools also love when students are not just focused on academics. I'm not exactly sure how the Year 10 entry for Nossal or any of the other 3 selective schools go but what I will say is that it is very competitive. At Nossal, they only accept students if a spot opens up even if the applying students are very high achieving. Last year, only one student left in Year 9 so they could only accept in one new student. I don't want this to scare you or anything but I think it is important to note that it will be very competitive. I'm not sure if the other selective schools have this system but at Nossal, there always needs to be exactly 208 students in each year level so that's why it's so hard to get in after Year 9 entry.

ReyanSuccessfulSelectiveAplicant

do u have any materials regarding the test to get a spot in year 9? Anything would be appreciated.

Ommahp

ReyanSuccessfulSelectiveAplicant
Sorry, unfortunately I did the test in 2022 where it was still by edutest, but since last year the tests are now being made by acer so I'm not sure what they are like.

ReyanSuccessfulSelectiveAplicant

Ommahp anything would be appreciated :

Ommahp

ReyanSuccessfulSelectiveAplicant
Well I didn't go to tutoring or anything although a lot of people do recommend it because tutoring typically gives you useful practice tests. I didn't really use any external materials, I just studied topics in my year 9 maths textbook with a few year 10 topics. It's also very important to practice time management because the questions in my test weren't exactly hard questions but there was just a lot of questions in a short amount of time. For the writing, I know it changed to a persuasive and narrative test. Try writing 2 really good body paragraphs for persuasive instead of 3 rushed ones. For reading comprehension, a lot of people like to look at the questions before reading the text but this never works for me, I just read the entire text and then i can quickly answer all the questions instead of spending time searching through the texts for answers. Take these with a grain of salt, I'd recommend asking people who did the test last year for how it was.

Ronaldo

Ommahp hey did you apply for the test in year 8 for yr 9 entry if so could you tell me if year 10 topics will be on the nossal test

ATAR

Ommahp was numarical and maths in the selective test really as hard as everyone is saying? or is that just an exaggeration? also what different types of questions did u encounter for verbal reasoning? do you have to have a wide vocabulary?

MMHS

Ronaldo
yes

transportbelt

ATAR i did edutest when i joined and not acer but i can tell you numerical is much harder than most practice tests simply because of time pressure. practice choosing questions to skip and spending a max of 30 secs per question.

Average Guy

ATAR

Hi I was wondering how many superiors would I need to get into Nossal High School? Will I need a lot of Vocabularly? Also for Maths, do you think you could help me or if you have any materials, it would be much apreciated.

Average Guy

ATAR

Lol

MMHS

Average Guy
yes u will need a very expansive vocabulary. Honestly its better u don't start learning new content bc with 9 days to go its more about practice tests

ATAR

Average Guy Around 3 superiors or above would be ideal. Can't give resources because I don't want to help the opposition but I hope you fail as it gives me more chances of making it. Bad luck!

transportbelt

Average Guy mathematics itself isn't too hard i'd worry more about num reasoning if i were you

Ronaldo

transportbelt ye except when ur speed running topics u dnt know

Ronaldo

Average Guy I’ll give u materials I dnt mind so for maths go to the Suzanne Cory 2025 post and scroll to @Tas post or Melonas and it will have maths questions it’s not based like acers but it works good luck on the exam

Average Guy

ATAR

Damn a school near brentwood has crazy SEAL Program

Average Guy

ATAR

Sorry DDCA GOAT. WE both getting in