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so i cant really remember, bc it was a while back. There was like 4 long passages and maybe 3 or 4 short paragraphs. there were some grammar, literary devices and vocab question, but i cant particularly remember. i do know that one of the passages were from frankestein. so i would say if you get used to reading school text like that which are year 10/11 level, youll probably be confident. for the interview, they dont ask unique questions, just the obvious. i didnt give a cv, i just gave a folder of my academic evidence.

:): I'm doing it next year, SCHS will most likely be my third

:): idk but if its in werribee its probably full of indians

:): So basically some schools have this Math Competition and you need to pay (I think) and sign up. Check if your school has it or not, this happens every year. Basically the content is similar to your year level knowledge but some of the last questions are harder. That's what I know.

australian math competition should be hosted by your school every year, first 25 questions are really easy (imo) and the last 5 questions are hard, js require more logic and problem solving skills, but from what ive seen, people really struggle on it

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:): can you accept my request, mine is sth trrrr

trinh yeah omg ofc, so i acc did vhap for english in yr 7 i think you get nominated by ur teacher (for either english or math) so basically all i did was get good grades and always participate in class like put ur hand up and if the teacher asked us to share our work i would always share mine, I would also always reach out to my teacher for extension stuff. But in my opinion I think the more extracurriculars u have the better. I think they also have to be relevant to the year you're currently in and the previous year (so achievements from year 8/9) . Since your extracurriculars r all music I think u should try out for some based in english, maths, science ect. You wanna basically look like an all-rounded person cs sticking to js music may make the school want to think that its best if you join a school that is better in music if yk what i mean. Tbh im js gonna join a whole bunch of clubs when i go back to skl this year and im gonna try to participate in a lot of what my skl offers, and a lot of stuff outside of skl.

both. hit him up see if he’s a good fit. He teaches maths and English and does give free extra lessons one on one w you if you don’t understand sm

trinh Yeah omg im so scared for that part but i js recently did a scholarship interview so I would probably just join up for a bunch of clubs at ur skl. If ur skl offers things like ICAS ,AMC ( Australian maths challenge), Science/Maths olympiad, VHAP or js any like optional stuff you should try to participate in all that stuff. Cs if you get an interview you need to provide stuff about how ur a great candidate and how determined you are so like these r a great way to prove that. In my scholarship interview they asked me what my hobbies are too so make sure to prepare for that. And in terms of the questions they js asked me what my favourite subject is, they asked me for times where I showed their school values ( Like responsibility, respect, justice ect.) and they asked me why I chose this skl. Tbh I dont know how the interviews work for SEHS but hopefully they r somewhat similar to this. Hope this helps!

:): Your chances don't decrease. Also whoever told u that was mistaken.

:): I just had good enough score to not need one. Prob scored like top 1% in mathematics or something. The writing style is a lot easier because they give WAYYY more time, instead of 20mins for persuasive and narrative each, you have 5 mins planning and 30mins writing for either a narrative or persuasive.

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:): I also had the same problem as u. Sucked at RC and VR. There really aren't any huge tips other than to read more complex literature. What I would do occasionally was when reading any type of media(books, manga, articles, etc) I would speed read a 1-2 paragraphs of text, then without looking try to remember as much information and jot it down on a piece of paper, then read the original text slowly to see any hidden meanings or connections(cus that happens a lot in RC tests), then compare what I wrote to what was actually there. If I had two completely different meanings from what I wrote to what was the actual meaning then I would try to tone down the speed, and repeatedly do that until I could fully comprehend a text in one read. This gradually helped me pick up reading faster, saving me precious seconds if not minutes.

sorry for the waffling in advance, hope it helps! btw u are way faster than me at getting over selective, I was depressed for like half a year, then finally I started to get a grip and focus on what is important(year 10 entry). I believe that you'll make it.

:): same here i am also going for y10 entry next year gl to both of us

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:): Same, I keep getting the same result for VR, and for me the biggest problem is my vocabulary, there's not much tricks with questions asking you find the odd one out or anything like that.... so that's why I'm preparing early and it's really hard since English is my second language and I speak another one at home and a following up with a third language..... but gl either way on your exam!

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Hello,
I have done the JMSS Entrance Exam into Year 10 this year and had successfully secured a place into the school.

If I am going to be honest, this was one of the easiest tests I have done..ever! The maths test contains year 9-style questions, and so tests you on speed rather than knowledge. The hardest question was some annoying simultaneous equations question which required quite a bit of working out, but everything else was very simple.

As for the science reasoning, I had gone through Year 10 + early year 11 science topics, but I REGRET doing so and NONE of the topics I had learnt were required on the test. The test gives you the information you need, but only requires you to apply that information. I would highly recommend purchasing and looking over ICAS Science Past Papers, and maybe even ask friends from practice tests from their tuitions.

The written topics were simple. Although I do not remember the exact topics, one was about hurricanes. I guess the only difficult part of the exam was the written expression as you can only get better at essays with practice. I recommend asking Chat GPT to generate topics, and then assess the essay using your schools criteria, or maybe even ask a teacher to mark it!

I was someone who had stressed wayy too much for the exam. Everyone would tell me that sweating through the year 10 textbooks were pointless, and I see now that they were correct. I had spent so much time and energy studying unnecessary topics. The test was more like an IQ test, so the best advice I can give is to do what i mentioned before aswell as complete as many practice exams as possible.

I can give more info on more specific elements on the test, or what I recommend you doing, but I may take a few days to reply. But again, please do not stress over the exam, the exam is used to separate those who WANT to get in to those who DONT. If your year 9 level in terms of academics, you will be more than fine.