Hey so I sat the selective test last year and I got into Mghs with 3 sups and a high average. Only 2 people in my entire cohort sat the test and I was the only one to make it in. As many people have mentioned before me I think your school really impacts whether you get an offer or not but of course that doesn’t mean that just because you go to a non competitive school you can slack off a bit, you still need to receive at least 2 or more superiors and no averages to get an offer.
Personally, practice tests are the best way to prepare. After you’ve learnt the basics of the year 10 curriculum I suggest that you either sign up for a tutor who supplies practice tests such as James An or buy online practice tests from workshops like Hendersons.
This might sound a little hypocritical but last years test was nothing like the practice papers I had done in the past, all of the tests except Reading Comp were insanely different and numerical and maths really stuffed me up since I wasn’t fully prepared for the questions they gave. I won’t repeat what the questions were since a couple of people already explained them in detail before me.
Many people probably have told you not to try and work towards a mark out of 60 but my tutor would always tel me to aim for a 100% in every test so that I’d end up with say 40/60 or something along those lines which should be enough to gain u a spot for a superior but in the end it dose really depend on how the rest of the students do on the test. For example, I absolutely ruined the math test haha I guessed like 20 questions and perhaps all the other students found it hard as well because I ended up getting a superior on it and even tho I found the numerical hard too, everyone else did way better than me and I ended up with a high average.
Just because you don’t get an offer for a school doesn’t mean that you aren’t intelligent or worthy. More often than not the 5% rule is quite harsh and I know lots of people who were worthy of achieving a spot that didn’t make it even with 4 superiors.
Not getting into a selective school isn’t the end of the world and honestly there are so many private or even public schools out there that receive nearly If not the same atar results as selective schools.
I hope everyone who sits the test this year gets to do it in June unlike last year lol if anyone needs some practice tests or advice I’ll be happy to help
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