TIPS FOR 2025 STUDENTS DOOING VICTORIAN SELECTIVE ENTERY

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.