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DETAILED: All The Selective/Scholarship Exam Information [2020]
ProbotMelbourne:
--- Quote from: $noopDodd on January 30, 2019, 02:32:15 pm ---The term "Superior" just means that you scored in the top ~11% of all students writing the exam that year (in a particular section). Not too sure what raw marks you'd need (it changes every year and is different for each section), but prep companies usually have a pretty good idea.
I haven't contacted the examiners but I doubt this is the case; selective schools typically look for students who are high-performers across the board.
If it was just based on raw marks, some students could get in by simply acing (getting 60 and 50) on the Maths and Numerical reasoning sections whilst scoring in the "below average" band for creative and analytical writing - and their raw scores would still technically be high enough to get in.
Generally, a student who achieved 4 (low) superiors and 2 above averages is more likely to get in than a student who achieves 3 extremely high superiors and below average on both the writing sections and reading comprehension, even if these two students had the same total raw scores. (Also assuming they are from the same school and equity is not a factor)
Additionally, if it was based on raw marks, they would fail to take into account that students on average may find one section easier than another.
e.g. 40/60 may be the average score in maths, but the average in verbal reasoning could be 30/60.
If the system you mentioned was implemented, students who scored a 50/60 verbal reasoning (in this example a relatively more difficult section), would not be rewarded compared to students who scored a 50/60 in maths (relatively more easy section). This would not reflect the true ability of the student who scored highly in VR, a more difficult section. If you understand how VCE subject scaling works this is a very similar concept.
Good luck!
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I don’t know if I can send you the message or something
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Results are not calculated on how many superiors or other categories you list. The categories are only used for the report which is sent at the end of August to show how you went on the day.
Results are ranked using the marks received for the overall test, this is not available to you at any point.
Historically, between 3000-3500 complete the exam for entry into year 9.
EDIT:I agree with your points but I think that’s how they do it, or maybe they compare you with other kids solely based on that one subject, and if you get super low, your automatically not going to get in
rakshanaraj06:
Hi,
Would you please email me the the chapter from the year 11 math methods textbook?
If you could then please message me as I dont know how to message on this website:)
aspiringantelope:
--- Quote from: rakshanaraj06 on January 30, 2019, 05:49:44 pm ---Hi,
Would you please email me the the chapter from the year 11 math methods textbook?
If you could then please message me as I dont know how to message on this website:)
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For a selective school test, you will not need to know such stuff
I don\'t know:
Hi, thanks for your massive information guide, much appreciated.
I’m a year 8 hoping to get in MHS or SCHS :)
Btw, the MHS, MGHS, SCHS and NHS exam has just changed.
There’s one writing exam instead of two, it can be persuasive OR creative.
The writing exam is 30 minutes of writing time and 10 minutes of planning time.
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Does this matter for year 9's applying to year 10 as well? (Nossal)
m.yara184:
Is there really going to be polynomials, interquartile, and logarithms in the maths test?
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