TIPS FOR 2025 STUDENTS DOOING VICTORIAN SELECTIVE ENTERY

chxin theres 169 posts which is a bit too much to read for me

any tips/improvments with my creative writing?
prompt: There was nothing left except...

Leah walked through the remnants of her town. Once, a joyous town, bustling with the gleeful yells of children was now a destroyed mess of rubble and the smell of burnt wood. She walked through the remains holding her tears back. She couldn’t believe that only a few months ago, a happy, jolly town existed.

Leah came to a halt as she came upon her home – well, ex-home. All that was left of her home was now the souls of her family, forever haunting the endless mass of broken homes. The tears welled up in her eyes as she was reminded of the childhood that she once had, right where she stood. But now, she could never go back to that moment and relive the memories.

The anger surged through her as she was reminded of the culprits who smirked at the crowd watching them about to get guillotined. Their faces held no regret nor shame. What was even worse was that they were government officials – the very people that were supposed to protect us. Her fist trembled by just being reminded of that occasion.

It was useless reminiscing about the past, but she couldn’t help but think - if only… if only she hadn’t gone out to the farmers market alone. Maybe then… they would still be alive today. Was it all her fault? To this day, she was still haunted by the shadows. In her dreams she could see the vivid red of the fire and the rising smoke. Everytime she had one of those dreams it felt like the smoke was choking her as if to kill her in return for what she did. Leah knew it wasn’t her fault the government rebellions had decided to set their small town on fire but she couldn’t help but hold the guilt.

Coming back to reality, she noticed the sharp pain in her hand. She had been clutching on to a sharp piece of glass which had pierced her skin. The vibrant red of the blood flowed from her hand. She had a sudden epiphany. If she also died wouldn’t she be able to pay off her debt for killing her family?

There was nothing left except the bones of the deceased.

What was the point of living now? She had no one to care for and no one that cared about her. She held the broken glass but hesitated… Was it any better to kill herself? Shouldn’t she keep living for herself, not for anyone else? The distant memories of her sister laughing… not today. She put down the shattered glass and walked away.

dome no no sorry i mean books

dome i will be honest last august when i started prep i thought i was late,so i read every single post on SEHS which was around 3000 and i use @MMHS do's and dont's to carve what i need to do

chxin Last year said otherwise

ThinkSharp yo what

chxin oh wow i started serious prep only like a few wks ago cuz i had other commitments until now... would you say its beneficial to read thru the posts?

chxin last years scores, people in outer-city reigons (casey,weribee) didn't get in melbourne high with 2 or 3 and some got got a principals quota but mostly didnt get a seat. People in the city though got in with just 1 or 2

dome i mean ye like what i did was like if u check all the forums that i made (some were useless) people give me advice,i took that advice analysed it and then since then i have worked accordingly, and over time i went for 20% to 90s so it worked for me idk if it will work for other people

dome what do u get for every test????????????????????????????????

ay ATAR Notes can i have admin please im a good boy

chxin oh ok thank you

dome are u good at rc?? Im struggling with it rl hard, not so much text-based, but stuff like poems like from edgar allan poe or a few cartoons

MHS potential candidate me too i find everything easy besides the cartoon

dome bro wdym top 10 and what tests do u do

chxin top 10% (thats what its called now i think?) i do hes and another private tuition but the tuition

Ye btw js know the jac test results r not truely represnetative of the actual scores because in jac i would always got top 10 for everything but in the actual test i got 3 top 10 2 top 20

MHS potential candidate i dont think cartoons show up that much maybe once in a test. If they do idk how to rlly practice getting better at it its mainly just looking at the optoins and trying to interpret the text best you can. im not the great at rc usually abv avg to avg. im struggling with tes=xt based usually because of how long the text is. for poems i think best you can do is analyse some poems and learn diff language techniques (anaphora, jargon etc.)