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cloudy. oh thats not much.... isn't it 3.5 hr class?

chxin some ppl maybe good with time management and selective style qs as opposed to school tests since they have a lot of difficult word problems

dome the jac score is compared to all the people who go to jac from every jac location

MauryanBroski i heard from a frnd jac rc is rlly hard and ppl r barely scraping by lol. did you depend only on jac for the practice exams?

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Hello! I did SEHS in 2024, however, I did not get a place. But I'll share some of my experiences. The main reason I didn't get into SEHS was that I didn't put much effort. However, if you do tutoring or anything, use those resources very well. I did James An College. Compared to their practice tests, the actual test was easier. Most of the questions were basic Year 9 and difficult Year 8 questions. I do not know how the format and test level are this year, but it was quite mid.

The components I struggled really hard with were Reading, Persuasive writing but I excelled in VR. For Reading, I read a lot of books, but I used an app called GMAT Club. It contained good comprehension and maths questions, even for Numerical Reasoning. For Writing, I used prompts from ChatGPT and used its feedback. I also got help from my best friend as she is really good at English.As per my books, Mastering Mathematics is a good book for both NR and Maths, but mostly NR. Even though, Verbal reasoning was easy for me, I would search up 15 difficult/new words every week and put them into quizlet, and try to memorize them, then at the end of the week, I write them along with their definitions on a notebook.

But while doing all of these, what is really important is consistency. It may seem really hard, but just hang in there, and don't give up. Surround yourself with people who are always doing SEHS, because it did quite motivate me in some circumstances. Use all of your time and take care of yourself. Good luck to everyone who is taking the test. I hope this helped!

I am attempting JMSS this year as well. Any tips would be appericiated.

UNKNOWN_123 u should read over the questions for each text so u know what to look for in the text, and then u may only need to search for smaller parts of the text, then u may save time by not reading any unnecessary parts of a text

for anyone who went to james an, and got in, what scores did you get around 2 months before the exam? like uk on the email ur parents get, did u get top in everything? or above? this is for those who got in, and went to james an

i recommend hendersons workshops i learnt ALOT from that

UNKNOWN_123 i remember there was definitely some questions on measurement/geometry and questions that involved quick calculations and probably algebra but honestly ive like forgotten most things about the test. And i think to do well all you need is lots of practice questions and maybe also go through a year 9 textbook for more complex questions etc

I'm appealing for highvale so thats why

ye similar ratio in kambrya . there is about 18 spots but 90-100 kids trying

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

Hi everyone, I thought that creating a post were the next year of students writing the selective entry exam could ask questions and we could share our experiences to help this hopefully get into their dream school. As a student who got into Mac Rob first round, I advise going to tuition. I personally went to Melbourne tutorials the whole of yr7 and then I joined scholarly for the first few months of yr8 and just a month before the exam I joined JAC. I have heard lots of positive things about Henderson's (although a little costly) I think its worth it. These 4 tutors will all give you significant skills in order to ace the selective exam. Many people say that 2-3 months is enough but that depends on how you put your time ( some ppl may need 1 or 2 years )into it because I know many people I know had a lot of commitments like travelling overseas or extra-ciricular activities. Although these skills and moments may be great milestones, when you enter year 8 I strongly believe you should dedicate 75% of your time (other than school) to studying and revising. By the end of year 7, you should master topics which r covered in the yr 8 curriculum ( and atleast touch base and learn the basics of some topics in yr9-10 however in our test there was many only yr8 topics but you never know as Acer tends to give a lot of surprises ). In yr 8 you should start improving your timing but doing sample tests (JAC tends to give sample tests every week which helps for time managment and overall struture of the exam). For writing its just practice. I advise to purchase like 6 of 1 type of pen that you are comfortable with so you can practice with that pen when you are doing sample mock tests and keep 2 for the real exam. For writing its all about time management so I recommend having someone or some app to give you some writing prompts (I advice to use ChatGPT as it was very helpful to get free resorces from, just ask it to generate 50 prompts and it will give you). You should also select 1 peice of writing that you are most comfortable with bc in the 40 time frame you have to write a persuasive and narrative so it doesn't matter how much time you spend on each. I think you should try to finish one piece in around 17-20 mins. The first piece you are writing should ideally be the strong out of the 2 bc if you don't finish the 2nd one then you atleast have the strongest piece to boost you marks. For reading comp you need to understand how to skim and scan quickly over long texts, understand poem hiding meanings and understand cartoons hidden message. For the ability tests comes practice bc compared to the other 3, you get very few time to do one questions, VR requires a broad vocab so I advise to have a vocab book (I had one in yr 8 and I was on by third book by the exam day). Just write the meaning and some synonyms or maybe a sentence so you can comfortably know the word. For NR its is spamming tests and learning how to understand and break down a large paragraph of info and quickly identifying patterns.

That's all for now ( I know this is very long ), I will provide more resources and tips when the exam is getting closer. Feel free to ask if you have anymore questions