i_need_mental_asylum Maybe just get a laptop that is not too high-end, but is still useful. Probably a laptop from 2019 onwards. Windows is relatively low-priced, and MacBooks offer a user-friendly User Interface. It comes down to personal choices. But at least get a laptop with >8GB RAM and a 10th Gen Intel processor onwards or Apple Silicon.

Most of this might just be basic knowledge... heheh. Hope this helps.

    you dont need anythings special, but make sure its a touch with a stylus preferrably windows

    Heello, Im currently in year 7 and I'm doing the test for selective school in vic next year. I pretty confident with math and numerical reasoning but not so good with english...I want to know how hard is the reading writing and verbal reasoning test for you? and also did you get a tutor to prepare for the exam? THANKYOU very much if you can reply🙂

      liiilie I would recommend going to a tuition like James Ann or Henderson but there is also private if ur confident

        liiilie I did James ann but it was absolutely TRASH in my opinion - it teaches u things that u don't need to know for the test: I made macrob in round one with one month of study cuz I didn't pay attention in any of my classes as they were talking about concepts from year ten.. they are okayish for verbal but that's about it for me :/ I used a website called Ed accelerator and that was much better + it was free

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            liiilie (from a person who made nossal with 3 top 10s and 2 top 20s this is my recommendation) even though others didnt recommend jac, i do as it was personally very similar in rc, nr, and vr and also it was done in real test settings making you familiar for the real day, it also gave u the best bang for your buck as edu kingdom is horrible and hendersons is good but extremely expensive.

                yo guys are the practise tests on the acer website actually similar to the test or are they easier

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                  liiilie
                  hi, i have done the test this year and got a spot into macrob 1st round. Similar to you, my strong suits were maths, numerical reasoning and vr. I think VR is easy as long as you have a very extensive vocabularly. I would reccomend having a word book where you learn a few days words every day (or every week). This will alow you to build your vocab which will not only assist you to build you vocab but also help you in the writing component of the test. For writing, I believe that everyone can write in their own styles but scoring high requires using high vocab, sticking to the prompt, being unique (creative) with your ideas. Ideally you want to give some sort of orginality so that the accessors do not compare your piece with others and rank yours low. For writing daily/weekly practice is crucial to get a hang of writing within the 20 minutes time frame and generating ideas on the spot. The prompts itself wont be to diffiuclt but its more of how you interpret it and generate quick and creative ideas. For RC (which is my weakest subject), the main advice i can give you is to do lots of RC. This requires getting some sort of tutoring for practice, doing worksheets online or purchasing books online or borrow RC books from the library. These strategies will assist you to develop better RC skills and be prepared for the test. Also, you got to be mentally prepared to the fact that there will be a variety of texts like poems, non-fiction, reviews, graphs, fiction, comics, reviews etc. You will need to read a variety of genres to grasp and understand how to interpret texts. To achieve all this I wouolod highly reccomend tutoring. Many people call James An useless; however, i strongly believe James An tends to give you a good insight into how the overall test is structured. I think VR and writing are almost identical to the actual test. I also went to melbourne tutorials which helped me to develop vital skills to ace the exam.