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Shinkaze:
I'm not sure but for English in JAC I used to get like the lowest rank for both reading comprehension and verbal reasoning and I usually get around 30s- 40s.
However in the actual exam I got an average for both! I guess the cohort in JAC is very strong and their test is really hard so don't worry!

SKGUN11:

--- Quote from: forbiddensoulxx on May 24, 2014, 07:13:51 pm ---^, thanks! I go to a a Grammar School which got really high scores last year. And is it true that JAC tests are harder than the actual one?

Thanks

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Hi,
I am doing the JMSS entry exam this year and I also do JAC. It is very difficult, no one usually manages to get over 60%! My best is like 70% and thats on Science :o. Average is always 30 - 40%. I heard from people who sat it last year for Melb high etc. that JAC is w=WAYYYYYYY harder than the actual exam. Apparently you will find the exam a massive relief when you actually sit the actual one compared to JAC (dont take it too easy though  ;) ). For JMSS, numerous people I know have said the Maths test is irrelevant. JAC includes year 11 syllabus where at most the JMSS exam will go into basic year 10. Even the Maths teacher at JAC says it is way too hard and irrelevant! Science is not like science reasoning but more like preparation for the essays. I have to admit, JAC is GREAT for essays! Really gets you prepared for them with great techniques/ideas. Thats the reason I stay, for science revision and the essay. Numerical Reasoning is also not good in JAC!

Good Luck!

Orb:

--- Quote from: SKGUN11 on May 24, 2014, 08:16:05 pm ---Hi,
I am doing the JMSS entry exam this year and I also do JAC. It is very difficult, no one usually manages to get over 60%! My best is like 70% and thats on Science :o. Average is always 30 - 40%. I heard from people who sat it last year for Melb high etc. that JAC is w=WAYYYYYYY harder than the actual exam. Apparently you will find the exam a massive relief when you actually sit the actual one compared to JAC (dont take it too easy though  ;) ). For JMSS, numerous people I know have said the Maths test is irrelevant. JAC includes year 11 syllabus where at most the JMSS exam will go into basic year 10. Even the Maths teacher at JAC says it is way too hard and irrelevant! Science is not like science reasoning but more like preparation for the essays. I have to admit, JAC is GREAT for essays! Really gets you prepared for them with great techniques/ideas. Thats the reason I stay, for science revision and the essay. Numerical Reasoning is also not good in JAC!

Good Luck!

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Yeah, imo if you can get 85%+ at JAC, getting into MHS will be a breeze. I remember that I only got like 65% on my first time, but steadily progressed to 90%+ by the time of scholarship/selective school exams. Mind, I didn't try for MHS but did get 5 superiors in my Edutest.

Grammar School? Mind specifying which one? Eg. Getting into MHS will be considerably harder from somewhere like Melbourne Grammar or Camberwell than it is from somewhere like Brighton Grammar, simply because the number of people aiming to get into MHS is considerably larger.

Not trying to diss Brighton here but just using it as an example.

Hannibal:

--- Quote from: hamo94 on May 25, 2014, 05:27:13 pm ---Yeah, imo if you can get 85%+ at JAC, getting into MHS will be a breeze. I remember that I only got like 65% on my first time, but steadily progressed to 90%+ by the time of scholarship/selective school exams. Mind, I didn't try for MHS but did get 5 superiors in my Edutest.

Grammar School? Mind specifying which one? Eg. Getting into MHS will be considerably harder from somewhere like Melbourne Grammar or Camberwell than it is from somewhere like Brighton Grammar, simply because the number of people aiming to get into MHS is considerably larger.

Not trying to diss Brighton here but just using it as an example.

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Wow, 90%... That's freaking amazing :).

pi:

--- Quote from: Hannibal on May 25, 2014, 05:40:50 pm ---Wow, 90%... That's freaking amazing :).

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A fair few people get 90%+, after a while it shouldn't be out of reach to restrict your errors to 2-3. I can't say I consistently got 90%+, but towards the end I would be getting around there or high 80%s. Just got to keep improving.

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