JMSS Entry Tips

Hi,
I have been reading and finding the tips from this page to be extremely helpful. I am looking to also partake in the JMSS exam this year for 2025 however I have left my preparation to be very last minute.
I was wondering if anyone has advice on how I should plan out my studying. I consider my maths and science knowledge levels to be acceptable however I don’t believe it can put me above some other students who may be taking the test and with time running out I am definitely becoming more nervous as I really want to attend this school.
Any tips are appreciated however the advice here has already been a great help.
Thanks.

eee Sorry if that sounds like a dumb question btw, im just stressing

nuclei What do you mean by hardcore, do you mean you should not go to school and stay home to study for this exam or only study for like 3 hours per day

eee I am also doing it for 2025, my advice because I didn't make the selective school year 8 test is to see past and previous papers and find a member from your family or a cousin to listen to their experience and what mistakes they did (that you should not repeat) and somethings that you should do during the exam.

airfoil definitely don't skip school to study for the exam!! What I meant was that I quite literally spent any spare time I had studying, like I'd wake up early to study before school, I'd study during breaks at school, and also spend a lot of time afterschool studying. I also did a lot of my classwork for maths and science in advance so I could ask my teachers to help me with the more difficult topics and questions. Like I said, I wouldn't recommend it, but it was what worked best for me. Good luck!!

@nuclei what is the best tip for scoring high in science reasoning? Do you recommend hendersons exams for JMSS?
PLEASE GET BACK TO ME ASAP

JMSSaspirant I'd say the science reasoning test wasn't exactly difficult, but there was a fair bit of analysis. It's similar to ICAS, so I'd recommend purchasing some ICAS papers for practice. Other than that, just go over your textbook. Most of the questions in the exam only required a very basic knowledge, especially when it came to physics. As long as you know the basic formulas (force, speed, acceleration, etc.) you'll be fine. Personally, I covered the content in my Year 9 science book, some basic bio unit 1&2 content, and used ICAS for practice and I got a superior in sr so it worked for me. Hope this helps!!

@nuclei are the question formatted as you read the information from graphs or stats and answer them? Thank you for the advice

Hi, I am preparing for the JMSS entrance test 2024, thanks for all the useful suggestion. I just wanted to point out that latest ICAS papers are not available, so how to get them as most latest one to be purchased are of 2018 - 2016.
Hope anyone could help.

ZehraA Hi! Don't worry, it's not really much of a problem. Those ICAS papers are still relevant so you can still use them for practice. Good luck!!

JMSSaspirant That's right. From what I remember it was analysing either a graph or a slab of information. There were also more direct questions but they were generally less time consuming. I'm glad I could help!!

Thanks everyone for the tips!

nuclei I was just wondering how the science lab report would be formatted in the exam. If you could go in some depth into the components for the parts, that would be great because I've read online and there's several various ways in writing it up. Hope you can help me out!

@JMSSaspirant #p18829 try the 2015 to 2021 icas tests for science reasoning since that helped me with my year 6 to year 7 but that may not be relevant now so do the science reasoning on year 9 instead

Hello Everybody, I just wanted to ask the people who are in JMSS and who are practicing for it, did/are you guys remembering the whole periodic table or just a limited amount of elements? Thanks everybody and also thanks for all your tips

atomic Hi! I actually didn't do too well on that component unfortunately, however @Ommahp made a post earlier in this discussion that I think explained it really well. Maybe try sticking to and practicing that format to avoid confusing yourself?

JMSSaspirant Yeah, the content is similar in regards to difficulty.

Jake65 You definitely don't have to memorise the whole periodic table!!! Just the first 20 elements will do!

Ty for tips everyone, I am also going for jmss entry 2025. I currently use strive for excellence practice tests, EDUTEST maths and numerical tests and icas for science. I was wondering if these sources are similar to the actual exam (for people who have used them), and how many questions exactly do we need to get right to get superior? I heard that to get a superior for mathematics you need to score >45/60. Is this true? What about science reasoning and numerical?

Also for science report, I've heard they give you a page of like methodology and results and ask you to write a discussion, do you only write a discussion? like as in do you need to write a complete science report, or are you supposed to leave out the parts already given?

Does anyone know what the most popular topic on the test will be? or have a prediction?