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  • Anyone else sitting Suzanne Cory for year9 2025

Hey Miio,

I am sitting the test this year for Suzanne Cory high and am becoming more apprehensive as the days go by. In terms of tips I am not that helpful, although I have a few files (not mine).

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fly9pFfObQZJWD--ZLF_RchgQ6ZtL_bzUMJt2YWy2wo/edit
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KFCd1ZpzYDAuyoDtSmPjevXr_Fpk3Khf/view
https://dl6.irlanguage.com/English/1100%20Words%20You%20Need%20to%20Know%206th/1100%20Words%20You%20Need%20to%20Know%206th.pdf

For writing I just use IELTS topics, as they're a lot! And just make sure to practise at least once a day for both creative and persuasive. For verbal improve vocabulary and logical skills, but I am afraid it is a bit too late for vocabulary if you haven't been practising. And for numerical, personally the hardest one for me, it is extremely important to practise a bunch of worded and abstract reasoning problems. And Maths is just self explanatory.

Just take a deep breath when you walk in and good luck!

    Thank you so much!! Yup I have been practicing my vocab since time immemorial but I agree the numerical reasoning is the worst for me by far. It’s quite nerve wracking as the exam is fast approaching!! Btw are there a lot of people from ur school going! And good luck!!

    PotatoSinghThe3rd I hope we get in! Btw are u a guy or girl. I chose Suzanne Cory as a safe bet, because macrob is really competitive

      Hey Miio! So to answer your questions, my school is quite competitive. Although it is a p-9 school, 25 people can be accepted and 40 are trying. I'm a guy btw, I'm choosing Suzanne because Melbourne High is very popular and pretty much everyone is choosing it. And by any chance did you sit the JAC mock test, and if so what did you get? Because I got fairly poor, high average overall. Anyway, I hope we get in!

        PotatoSinghThe3rd
        hello, I sat the jac mock exam as well, superior in persuasive, high average creative, high average maths and quantitative, above for verbal and higher for reading. I think the pecents for me was 63 for maths, 60 quantitative, 73 verbal, 70 reading, 87 persuasive and 77 creative (26/30 and 23/30) overall got above

          High average is good, meaning you are within the top 150 kids who attend james an, and there around 950 kids I think. One of my friends got middle and he's pretty smart.

            also, one of my jac teachers got in Melbourne high via a second round offer, getting a sup in numerical and maths, average for writing, higher and above in both English. so if you are thinking that you wont be able to make it, just remember there are second round offers and believe in yourself.

            Hey MMHS, thank you for that extra motivation. I just realised I must have accidentally typed 'high average' I got middle overall because I messed up my numerical. However, I took the test again and got way higher than before. I must have panicked or something, but now I have some hope. Thanks again!

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              PotatoSinghThe3rd Hi!! I don’t do Jac but I do north shore coaching it’s basically the same as jac but I get fairly good scores mostly above high average but it’s quite nerve wracking , the exam is in like 2 weeks!!

                I know right! 2 weeks is so close, i'm just relying on my writing and maths at this point.

                  PotatoSinghThe3rd
                  Me too! The first question for maths which was about the mid point just seemed too hard but when I looked back that was probably one of the easiest ones. I found finding the equation of a parabola quite easy as well as all of them were different

                      MMHS

                      Same! Honestly, I messed up the mock test. I remember skipping both the mid point and race track questions. But now that I attempt them, they are not that difficult. For verbal and math I got high average, reading average, persuasive above average and creative superior. I'm just really upset about my numerical.. I got low average 😭. But overall I probably would have got high average if I did not screw up numerical. Congrats on the above average by the way!

                      • MMHS replied to this.

                          PotatoSinghThe3rd
                          Heyy thanks! You must be great at writing. Im not sure how you got middle, one of my friends got less than that and got higher. Math i got high as well and verbal got above. Mine was almost opposite for writing, higher creative and superior persuasive. Same, I skipped race track, although it was a bit timetaking

                            Im quite upset with my math though i could've gotten at least 65

                            idk abt you but I finsihed both writing pieces with 10 mins to spare so I was just looking at everyone writing away lol. I got up to go to the toilet and realised how large the james an company is honestly, around 900 kids attend and that ,means james an students take up about 20-30% of all students who take the exam!

                            Now that I think about it, how did you get middle, you should've gotten above as well bc we had similar scores

                            also, what was your preference order? mine was MHS, Suzanne and nossal i didn't put coz of the distance and travel time

                            also i find factorising and finding the value of x questions to be particularly easy and so i usually whizz through them, hence why i found the parabola question easy

                            Oh yeah and simulation was quite easy, writing was quite easy, math was surprisingly easy too, and luckily i fracticed my fractional powers that same day because there was that one question on fractional powers that ik a lot of people got wrong. verbal easy as always, reading was also easy and quantitative was fairly easy apart from a few timetaking ones.