• Year 7-10

  • TIPS FOR 2025 STUDENTS DOOING VICTORIAN SELECTIVE ENTERY

DOGLOVER3 hello there! i did the test this year too, and received a first round offer to Suzanne cory! to answer your questions,
1 - i personally didn't use any books to learn vocab, just some vocab lists. i would recommend vocabulary.com or sites like that as they seem to be helpful
2 - the maths was one of the most difficult tests, alongside numerical, for me. i practiced graphs and parabolas, however it was mainly probability. the time consuming part of the test was what made it super hard.
3 - creative was a picture of a girl sitting in an empty theatre, persuasive was whether or not people go to cinemas as much as they used to.

hope this helps, and good luck next year! 🙂

      got into macrobs this year so lemme see if I can answer:

      1. didn't really...just read my normal fiction books... I guess I love reading and that helped a lot.
      2. I love math a thought I was gonna do great but when I did the actual test, I skipped like 10 questions. my advice is go do the easy ones, don't get distracted by the hard ones. practice icas papers, they should help make you faster.
      3. a girl alone in a cinema and whether cinemas are as popular anymore or not

      good luck next year

        Didnt get in but another tip is make sure u get used to the timing, that is the most important

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        DOGLOVER3
        Thank you. Hopefully you get in as well. I have heard spectrum is good. However, I would reccomend Henderson's atleast for the last term b4 the exam bc apparently come content on the test was covered in spectrum (including the narrative writing prompt) but spectrums is a good tuition as well from what I have heard.

        1. As clover said I used webistes like vocabulary.com and chat GPT (asked it to generate some random words for yr9). But try to read articles from the news (beneficial for writing as writing topics are generally around current affairs) and if you see any hard word note them down and take some time to understand the word. Even when you you are reading a normal book you don't have to search up the word straight away but you can note it down and check it out later.
        2. the maths test was far most one of the most difficult test. Even though all the content was within the boundaries of yr 8 (touching very little graph questions from yr9), the questions itself were very lengthy worded problems or diagrams which had to be artculated. For maths, understanding what the questions is actually asking and forgetting about the unnecessary info is required. Also NR was another hard test as there wasn't much time and this topic can only be perfected by practice and if not regularly then alternative days doing some pattern identification questions (some easy marks should be straightforward ones like Fibonacci). Remember timing is the key so improve on your accuracy and then focus on timing and attempting to answers questions in 30-45 secs ( no more than 45 secs for NR but for maths maybe a minute but its a stretch). Overall in maths, we had questions on probability, algebra and a few graph questions.
        3. answered by (clover ) but just to add on to the persuasive, we had 2 graphs and 2 statements and we had to pick 1 statement ( for or against cinemas ) and 2 graphs which we could use if we wanted to (in persuasive if graphs do come up then the recommend you using it as it not only becomes one of your evidence in the TEEL structure but also shows the assessor's that you can understand information.

        Good luck next year and hopefully you get in and we see each other some time.

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              Anonymous_101 BRO WAS LITERALLY ON OF THE OGS ON THE VICTORIA SELECTIVE TEST EXAM FORUM. HELP I WAS READING IT THERE WAS SO MUCH

                um so im actually an overseas student so i dont think i can get tutoring irl🙁
                im sensitive to words and im pretty good at english but my math is REALLY bad. i barely pass my tests even though i study. ofc maybe i just needed more time to practice but still. im so scared for the math part of the tests i feel like im cooked💀💀 anyone got suggestions on how to improve math quick???? WANNA GET MACROB SO BAD AAAAAAAAAAA

                  a📀 But I think if you get top scores for English and get above avg/high avg for Maths, then you might have a chance

                  You probably have heard this before many times but just practice ig
                  Maybe just do the entirety of the Year 9 syllabus from a text book
                  I have the IBMYP ones if you need them (online)