Year 8-11 Selective Result Discussion (4 Viewers)

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also how r u studying for edutest?

 

[hi_998]

do u think one is easier to get into than the other? about how many people are applying to Nsg do u have an idea?

nsg definitely has a lower amount of applicatns applying as known of and i also applied last year and there were barely any, i would say there were quite a few fort street kids who tried for nsg. alot r trying for sghs. includng me, im not that keen though, reports r okay..


edutest is mostly about timing, so thats what really cuts out people when it comes to applying for these schools.

 

[stnd08]

nsg definitely has a lower amount of applicatns applying as known of and i also applied last year and there were barely any, i would say there were quite a few fort street kids who tried for nsg. alot r trying for sghs. includng me, im not that keen though, reports r okay..


edutest is mostly about timing, so thats what really cuts out people when it comes to applying for these schools.

To do good in edutest you just need to be accurate and fast. Its a simple concept but you need practice to be able to do it. Honestly, the way to go is just doing practice exams.

 

[?!?!]

To do good in edutest you just need to be accurate and fast. Its a simple concept but you need practice to be able to do it. Honestly, the way to go is just doing practice exams.

what practice exams are you using to pace urself?

 

[stnd08]

what practice exams are you using to pace urself?

uhhhh im not sure....thats a good question

 

[yuqiismyidol]

nsg definitely has a lower amount of applicatns applying as known of and i also applied last year and there were barely any, i would say there were quite a few fort street kids who tried for nsg. alot r trying for sghs. includng me, im not that keen though, reports r okay..


edutest is mostly about timing, so thats what really cuts out people when it comes to applying for these schools.

what ru talking abt... nsg has 52 applicants last year compared to 45 for sg (coming from aunt who works in the edutest department), and nsg and sg both accepted 3 each so sg has higher acception rate, esp for yr 11 they accept up to 25 new students compared to nsg who accept up to 10 students (both r on top of the ones that leave and go ruse or baulko)

 

[yuqiismyidol]

nsg definitely has a lower amount of applicatns applying as known of and i also applied last year and there were barely any, i would say there were quite a few fort street kids who tried for nsg. alot r trying for sghs. includng me, im not that keen though, reports r okay..


edutest is mostly about timing, so thats what really cuts out people when it comes to applying for these schools.

also TWO people FROM FORT STREET - me and my friend tried for nsg thats isnt even a lot and this yr were both going for ruse nsg and sg (almost 100% accepted into sg atp cus shes rank 1st and im rank 2nd)

 

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Hey, i got into girra

for what year entry? and how did you study for it?what did you grades and extracurricular?sorry for all the question. Im trying to get into it this year

 

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The official edutest tests were extremely useless. Cause they are really easy in comparison to what is given in the test. Its also extremely misleading. You can lose like 2 marks in the edutests practice tests, and this is not a good indicator by any means to what will happen in the real test. This is generally a very honest opinion as someone who sat the tests last year and made all the top 3 schools: baulko, nsb, ruse (which all do edutest). SAVE YOUR MONEY.

So what I would recommend for anyone sitting edutest:
The test is heavily a game of speed and not knowledge and skill. The "skill" is being able to identify the pattern, formula, or whatever related to the question and quickly answering it. Nothing should make you sit there and just ponder for 1 min, the questions aren't designed for that. If you find yourself pondering, just skip and come back.

An important thing I learnt, although it sounds inherently trivial, is that EVERY QUESTION IS WORTH THE SAME. No matter how hard they are they are worth the EXACT same. One Mark. So if you skip a question sure you may drop that "one mark" but in return you gain 5 marks of easier questions later on because you skipped it and sacrificed that mark. I hope that's clear enough. So don't feel bad or worried cause you skipped a question.

If you want a general marker of what to expect. The numerical reasoning and verbal reasoning last year was pretty cooked. in the sense that speed was not in your favour. but I vividly recall being totally unsure about the last 10 questions because of time. I was like many others and didn't realise how important speed was. the questions weren't inherently "hard" I just pondered too long on different questions and didn't understand that "one mark" concept. And then albeit those 10, we can safely assume I may have dropped AT LEAST 5 in the rest of the paper just from general mistakes.

while this was a year ago, that's legit a 45/60 (maybe on the lower end and a bit lenient), that still got me a superior (highest band). The tests are pretty cooked regardless of how good you may be. I think if I approached it different I would've scored much better, but that's in the past and it's calm. BUT DONT BE LIKE ME

Anyways, yuh the notesedu has some pretty good resources, victorian selective school tests, there is a TSS vocabulary sheet for anyone looking to improve vocab and that stuff. Generally just search in google "Selective school Victoria Questions" or "Edutest Practice". Legit do HAST practice or ACER test practice it doesn't matter. The questions may vary but the concepts are the same.

And then for those worrying about the test. don't.

It's really not that big of a decision factor. The test is more of a "barrier of entry". It just "separates" the applicants to make applications easier to review. I mean a school reviewing 500 applications is tedious. But the test can basically categorise the top "some number" and then "prioritise" those applications. This number is still pretty big. BUT DON'T BE DECEIVED. You still have to perform well. But don't think there are "10 spots", I must come top 10 or something. No, it's legit just a precursor to your application. It allows the school to dwindle down the number of applications they have to look at. So just perform relatively good and let your application speak for itself.

Obviously on the other end of the spectrum, you can look to perform EXCEPTIONAL in the test and stand as an outlier to the school. but if you can do that, props to you, I have nothing to say. have fun at ruse cuh.

aight that's enough yapping. good luck guys

can u please provide the resoucres and links you used? Im trying for nsg or sg not sure if its a stretch

 

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ok i added u

Could you please also add me
interset9@gmail.com

 

[aaliya]

The official edutest tests were extremely useless. Cause they are really easy in comparison to what is given in the test. Its also extremely misleading. You can lose like 2 marks in the edutests practice tests, and this is not a good indicator by any means to what will happen in the real test. This is generally a very honest opinion as someone who sat the tests last year and made all the top 3 schools: baulko, nsb, ruse (which all do edutest). SAVE YOUR MONEY.

So what I would recommend for anyone sitting edutest:
The test is heavily a game of speed and not knowledge and skill. The "skill" is being able to identify the pattern, formula, or whatever related to the question and quickly answering it. Nothing should make you sit there and just ponder for 1 min, the questions aren't designed for that. If you find yourself pondering, just skip and come back.

An important thing I learnt, although it sounds inherently trivial, is that EVERY QUESTION IS WORTH THE SAME. No matter how hard they are they are worth the EXACT same. One Mark. So if you skip a question sure you may drop that "one mark" but in return you gain 5 marks of easier questions later on because you skipped it and sacrificed that mark. I hope that's clear enough. So don't feel bad or worried cause you skipped a question.

If you want a general marker of what to expect. The numerical reasoning and verbal reasoning last year was pretty cooked. in the sense that speed was not in your favour. but I vividly recall being totally unsure about the last 10 questions because of time. I was like many others and didn't realise how important speed was. the questions weren't inherently "hard" I just pondered too long on different questions and didn't understand that "one mark" concept. And then albeit those 10, we can safely assume I may have dropped AT LEAST 5 in the rest of the paper just from general mistakes.

while this was a year ago, that's legit a 45/60 (maybe on the lower end and a bit lenient), that still got me a superior (highest band). The tests are pretty cooked regardless of how good you may be. I think if I approached it different I would've scored much better, but that's in the past and it's calm. BUT DONT BE LIKE ME

Anyways, yuh the notesedu has some pretty good resources, victorian selective school tests, there is a TSS vocabulary sheet for anyone looking to improve vocab and that stuff. Generally just search in google "Selective school Victoria Questions" or "Edutest Practice". Legit do HAST practice or ACER test practice it doesn't matter. The questions may vary but the concepts are the same.

And then for those worrying about the test. don't.

It's really not that big of a decision factor. The test is more of a "barrier of entry". It just "separates" the applicants to make applications easier to review. I mean a school reviewing 500 applications is tedious. But the test can basically categorise the top "some number" and then "prioritise" those applications. This number is still pretty big. BUT DON'T BE DECEIVED. You still have to perform well. But don't think there are "10 spots", I must come top 10 or something. No, it's legit just a precursor to your application. It allows the school to dwindle down the number of applications they have to look at. So just perform relatively good and let your application speak for itself.

Obviously on the other end of the spectrum, you can look to perform EXCEPTIONAL in the test and stand as an outlier to the school. but if you can do that, props to you, I have nothing to say. have fun at ruse cuh.

aight that's enough yapping. good luck guys

hey thnxs for the info but I have few question so wdym by tss vocal sheet like can u give that paper pls today or tmr ASAP n what was interview questions abt in detail like what did they ask n yk how r giving this advice right so which yr group r u saying this to specifically yr 8 or 9 since I'm trying yr 9 (I'm in yr 8 ) so will it easy or hard to those ppl u tried for yr 9

 

[aaliya]

hey thnxs for the info but I have few question so wdym by tss vocal sheet like can u give that paper pls today or tmr ASAP n what was interview questions abt in detail like what did they ask n yk how r giving this advice right so which yr group r u saying this to specifically yr 8 or 9 since I'm trying yr 9 (I'm in yr 8 ) so will it easy or hard to those ppl u tried for yr 9

also what were the writing like in yr 8 exam for yr 9 like a statement or a pic what exactly n how to prepare for it pls tell me

 

[?!?!]

Hey, i got into girra

hey what were ur reports like and how did you study?

 

[?!?!]

Hi guys I got girra letter and penrith email yesterday and girra also sent HAST results with the letter

what did u use to study? could you please share them? also how is girra? is it bad? i heard a lot abt it?

 

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hey, i also tried out for sgg ‘26 and i received my email of reserve last wednesday.

what did u use to study?

 

[jane1820]

Hey I know you probably don't remember what you got on your HAST test, but I was just curious (because I'm also applying for st george) if you have a rough idea of how high did you score to get an interview for the school? (around what percentile)

OMG IM ALSO APPLYING ST GEORGE LOL AAHAHAHHAHA (SORRY LOL IM HAPPY )

 

[jane1820]

Hey I know you probably don't remember what you got on your HAST test, but I was just curious (because I'm also applying for st george) if you have a rough idea of how high did you score to get an interview for the school? (around what percentile)

wait (ok serious mode) my sister got the interview for sgghs too for yr 11 n her HAST was like … um… (trying to word it to not make my sister sound stupid) lower ig? anyways she made the shortlist but unfortunately didnt make it in but her REPORTS N EXTRA CORRICULARS WERE LIKE RLLY GOOOD SHE CAME I THIK 1ST IN ENG 2ND IN MATH N TOP 10 IN OTHER SUBJECTS AS A SELECTIVE STUDENT so i guess sgghs dont consider HAST as a big thing

 

[jane1820]

wait (ok serious mode) my sister got the interview for sgghs too for yr 11 n her HAST was like … um… (trying to word it to not make my sister sound stupid) lower ig? anyways she made the shortlist but unfortunately didnt make it in but her REPORTS N EXTRA CORRICULARS WERE LIKE RLLY GOOOD SHE CAME I THIK 1ST IN ENG 2ND IN MATH N TOP 10 IN OTHER SUBJECTS AS A SELECTIVE STUDENT so i guess sgghs dont consider HAST as a big thing

*cough* she got low 15% *cough*
but at the time she had her reasons

 

[jane1820]

Okay thank you so much!! That makes me feel a lot less stressed about the test. My reports these past 2 semesters have been pretty good, but I also go to a really really low ranking public school so I'm going to hope that doesn't influence their decision too much

AWH I WAS LIKE U LAST YR
i went to the 3 lowest skl jn the state (u can check that skl) cus it was my local n i had reports ALL STRAIGHT A’S (yr 8 sem 2 n yr 9 sem 1) w a fair amount of extra cocurriculars (im new to Australia so literally had no idea what that was so i was slowly participating in some) n until now i still think that my skl was the reason for not accepting me
(i moved to selective for a partially selective skl)
i dont mean to be rude or anything but FOR ME even though i did much better than my sister in the HAST last yr i feel like they only considered her cus she was selective? Ik another girl who also got in n she also was selective
ANYWAYS I RLLY RLLY RLLY HOPE THERE ISNT A ‘TREND’ WHERE THEY ONLY CHOOSE SELECTIVE STUDENTS CUS I FEEL U (i went to lowest 3) N I THINK U DESERVE IT (WE ALL DO)
*fingers crossed*

 

[?!?!]

OMG IM ALSO APPLYING ST GEORGE LOL AAHAHAHHAHA (SORRY LOL IM HAPPY )

ahh me too