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Dosanjh (NHS/SCHS) Hi I’m a year 10 at jmss this yr so I’ve went thru the interview process and I had five ppl in my interview group and four got in, and I know that happened to other ppls groups as well, so I actually think that the interview process probably isn’t that hard to get past, rather with the increasing numbers of ppl applying, the importance of the test might b brought up cuz in my year about 1400 ppl applied and five hundred got an interview.

Hi i also got in for yr 10 cohort 2025, for the interviews they started around the start of august and it spans across about two weeks, so basically ur interview time can be anywhere in between those two weeks, and there are multiple groups each day. Some people had their interviews around 9:00 and some people have it in the afternoon. I had it in the morning and all the jmss students were still hanging around the lobby so there were a lot of ppl, and it was a bit more intimidating since literally everyone’s staring at you lol . But yeah you’ll have around ten days prep time between ur interview notice and the day of the interview to gather ur cv and practice the interview. Though I’d definitely recommend preparing for the interview in advance cuz ten days probably won’t be enough tbh.

StudyKing Have you received the email?

StudyKing I’ve got a document about the interview stage, are you able to give me your email so I can send it to you? There’s quite a lot of info on there that can explain the whole process and also provide tips in each stage.

mnm thanks, but do we need to bring school reports?

Does anyone know if we need to bring anything to the jmss year 10 course confirmation interview?

If there’s any questions feel free to ask me cuz I can elaborate more on the interview

StudyKing I recently just received an offer from jmss for year 10 entry, and when I did the test this year, there wasn’t much on chemical equations, but it did test you on the broader science topics that you usually learn in year 9, such as fossils, light waves, mass and weight, but the topics vary every year so I would just recommend you to thoroughly read through a year 9 science textbook to prepare for science reasoning, and definitely review the science topics that you’ve learnt since year 7-9, because they might use it for an essay topic to test your prior knowledge. For example I think one year they had an essay topic where students had to explain the difference between respiratory and circulatory system, which would have been a year 8 topic you learnt at school, so just make sure that you have a good idea of all the stuff you’ve learnt till year 9, and you’ll be fine for science reasoning. For the other science essays, it’s worth tuning into science news regularly to build up that knowledge, and it would be very helpful even for the interview. I just used abc science news and occasionally read a few articles, which helped me in the exam. However this test itself is quite easy to pass, and a lot of people who do really well on the test don’t end up getting in because they don’t prepare enough for the interview, so I would strongly advise anyone trying for jmss entry next year to work on building your cv this year, and definitely focus on getting good grades for your report and maximize your participation in any activities at school, so that you would stand out in the interview stage. (Especially like debating or science related activities would be easy to talk about during the interview). But dont stress too much for the exam because the interview is the hardest stage, so it’s definitely worth prioritizing that. Personally I went to tutoring and I found that they helped a lot with numerical reasoning and writing in particular, and they gave a lot of useful advice for the interview preparation.