hi guys im back after 2 months

this is coming from a person who forgot to check 2nd and third round offers for the exam and was a successful candidate

for the people who are doing the yr 8 sehs exam to get into yr 9, do NOT and i repeat, do NOT focus on much of surds since when i did them (this year), there were none, the math and nr were extremely challenging, as the writing exam prompts most likely revolves around one idea, for this year, it was about cinemas.

i recommend going through a yr 9 math textbook for all the math resources (aus curriculum), as i could not remember much of the math sorry
for the nr, it was extremely challenging, recommend focusing on patterns such as number patterns in boxes and decoding strings of numbers (which was surprisingly difficult), as the decoding strings of numbers may be a secondary focus for the exam due to the unlikeliness ACER will pump out similar questions, but i do recommend focusing on them still.

for the reading comp of the exam, there will be at least one poem for the exam, we had 2 this year, and the big texts are most likely going to be snippets of a book, so i recommend reading some books for the prep, from the range of 5-10 books before sleep, that's what i did.

verbal reasoning was piss easy, recommend going to tuition brances such as JAC (james an), as they replicate the reading and verbal pretty well, as for the math, it was kinda beyond what they provided in the tests, being harder. nr was sorta similar

they do give 'ai' generated prompts which is sorta frustrating, but if you do manage to achieve a superior (or above average) in every JAC test, most likely you will get in.

if you are attending JAC tuition, i recommend doing the book questions and the online simulation tests (not the humanities, that's obsolete) at connected class.

i also do recommend attending the big simulation tests from hendersons, and if you have enough shillings to pump out, go to hendersons

    also a side note, i do recommend writing essays on different prompts that are similarly related to global (current) issues and giving it to your teachers to mark, for me, it helped me a lot (went to a private school so eh)
    when doing prac tests, remember to time yourself, and go over the wrong questions and retry them.
    when you do manage to get a good score in a certain time frame, reduce the time by 3-5 mins, then see how you go.

    what you are aiming for is both accuracy and speed, and if you can achieve both, you most definitely can get in the school

    • chxin

      • Post #110

      a📀 i would delte this email if i was u

          • chxin

            • Post #111

            Allison_Aubrey that would be stupid as even though we are helping eachother, we are also making the other candidates more successful

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                  • Post #112

                  chxin cmon, with shared resources they can beat everyone else together.

                    • chxin

                      • Post #113

                      why is it so dead , im not like an og but i miss august cus the rounds were still on, so it was pretty packed

                      chxin doesn’t matter it’s not my actual main email

                          • chxin

                            • Post #118

                            a📀 oke alg