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JMSS 2022 Entry
minali12345678:
Thank you so much, that really helped!! :)
Gollum24:
Hey, I'm a year 9 student going for the 2022 entry and just have some questions
-What Books and resources did you use to revise for the tests
-What things do I need to know for the scientific writing part of the test and do you suggest any resources to learn about. I am someone that has never written science reports and doesn't know too much on it
-How did you deal with the time pressure and manage it especially in the maths and numerical reasoning
-What sort of studies and tests did you do to prepare
-What sort of questions came in the Science reasoning test and what subjects do I need to know on it
Thank you so much in advance and taking the time to answer and read this ;D ;D ;D
happy121:
Heyyy
I'm applying for JMSS and was wondering when the test will take place? Also do I still stand a chance to get accepted if I cover year 9-10 maths books and cover year 8-9 science books, without doing any tutoring? Is the test similar to the selective school exam I took the test but unfortunately didn't get accepted :(
Thanks for taking the time to read I really appreciate everyone's help ;D
Happy
Nerd01939:
--- Quote from: Gollum24 on December 28, 2020, 11:37:59 pm ---Hey, I'm a year 9 student going for the 2022 entry and just have some questions
-What Books and resources did you use to revise for the tests
-What things do I need to know for the scientific writing part of the test and do you suggest any resources to learn about. I am someone that has never written science reports and doesn't know too much on it
-How did you deal with the time pressure and manage it especially in the maths and numerical reasoning
-What sort of studies and tests did you do to prepare
-What sort of questions came in the Science reasoning test and what subjects do I need to know on it
Thank you so much in advance and taking the time to answer and read this ;D ;D ;D
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- For books I just used the Oxford science 8/9 and the Cambridge maths 9 (just my schools textbooks). As for resources, I didn’t really use anything else but I did spend some time looking through the previous threads on AN to see what previous tests had on them/how hard etc.
- For the scientific writing, there isn’t much you can do to prepare specifically for it - there is a lot of info on the info sheet and just make sure you use as much of it as possible. If you do want to do something else just read through a few science news articles to see what’s relevant as that will probably be similar to the topics.
- for math, I just did all the questions I could do first and then went back through after for the harder ones. Most of them I just estimated and then picked what was closest to my estimation. NR isn’t nearly as hard for time pressure though.
- tests to prepare - I literally just did my school tests and studied really hard for them but I know some other people did old ICAS tests and said they helped. If you do tutoring or have friends who do it you can ask them for their practice tests and use them too.
- science reasoning - you don’t need to know any super complex or detailed stuff, the yr 8/9 curriculum stuff will cover it all. Most of the questions, they gave you some info then asked a question based on the info. it’s a mix of physics, chemistry and bio stuff. If you do the morrisby careers thing next yr, the questions are actually really similar to the ones in the ‘mechanical thinking’ part.
--- Quote from: happy121 on December 29, 2020, 10:40:29 am ---Heyyy
I'm applying for JMSS and was wondering when the test will take place? Also do I still stand a chance to get accepted if I cover year 9-10 maths books and cover year 8-9 science books, without doing any tutoring? Is the test similar to the selective school exam I took the test but unfortunately didn't get accepted :(
Thanks for taking the time to read I really appreciate everyone's help ;D
Happy
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- the test is usually around the end of June - last years was supposed to be 26th ish of June so the results come out around the middle/end of term 3.
- covering the yr 9/10 math and 8/9 science will be enough for you to be successful - I only did that and with no tutoring so you should be fine.
- I didn’t do the selective schools exam but everyone who did both said that the JMSS one was easier by far so if you even did moderately well in the selective schools one you should be able to do well.
A lot of people have been asking about how to structure the science writings - for the essay, it’s the basic essay form you should have learnt in year 7 or 8:
Intro - just say what the issue is and the 3 major things you will discuss
Main body - use the info sheet and put in all the relevant info (3-ish times)
Conclusion - sum everything up and propose your solution to the problem (if it asks for you to do that, otherwise just a sentence or two about the issue)
The ‘paragraphs’ will be small so don’t try write ridiculous amounts.
The prac report - use the basic order of things (aim, hypothesis, discussion then conclusion). There will be dot points to guide you - leave a small gap between your answers to each dot point, despite what many ppl think the discussion doesn’t have to be one large chunk. The conclusion should also only be 1 or 2 sentences.
There are 2 good ways you could do these:
1. Briefly answer all the dot points you have to, leaving spaces to go back and add in the details after.
(If you’re not very good at writing this was helpful to some people)
Or
2. Go through and answer everything in as much detail as you possibly can.
(If you are good at writing in lots of detail and lengthening responses/making it flow nicely, this is good)
- these 2 strategies mean that you will have either answered all the points or written an impressive answer but to only a few points or, best case scenario, both.
- just make sure you don’t rush through and write a really bad, messy, unorganised piece.
Hopefully I answered everything :)
(Yes I do have a problem with writing really long responses to everything so just let me know if it’s annoying to have to read and I’ll try fix it)
4eva_gone:
im trying out for jmss as well lol,
can someone who has done the test help us out ?
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