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Yes, old info is on the DET website. New info is available Apr next year. The marks got pushed up a lot. Sydney Girls is now definitely around 231 as 230 is on reserve and 232 got in. James Ruse about 249 as 247 is on reserve position 45. Even Hurlstone is now about 220 as 224 is in but on...

It's time of the year for NSW OC test again. As I want to help to level the playing field for the young kids, I have a quality set of maths trials and GA trials for SS and OC tests on my website completely free for all the kids to use. Many have secured OC and SS placement. I supposed some of...

I mean the cut-off marks where SS put the lower ones on reserve list. It looks like 224 only get to Hurlstone and on reserve at Sydney Boys at position 45th. It looks like all other top 5 SS have pushed the marks up to over 230. However the lower ranked ones seem to stay the same. Caringbah is...

What is the likely cut-off score for Sydney Girls? I am also interested in other top 5 schools like James Ruse, Baulkham Hills, Sydney Girls and Boys, North Sydney Girls and Boys. I know that the cut-off points have been lifted. One kid at 246 is on waiting list at James Ruse! The cut-off points...

The SS result for 2010 is out. My prediction was right. Kids who don't go to PreUni and still got similar results in this trial (when compared to PreUni students) will give PreUni students a whack! The gap is 30%. If you don't go to PreUni, scale up your ASAT trial result by 30% then compare...

The SS result came out this morning. As I predicted, PreUni ASAT trial for 2010 was a fake. They already leaked similar questions to their students. My prediction was very close. I compare a student not going to Uni who got a result about 15% lower than a comparable PreUni students. This time...

Selective school tests have become progressively harder over the years. I know that kids from Chinese backgrounds are generally forced by their parents to study very hard. Many also have to do piano as well. The best kids would do well just by having difficult materials thrown at them. Kids...

Did you get full scholarship or one of the 25%, 50% or 75%? Did you get it from one of the most expensive schools in Sydney? The 25% one is fishy. When a school is not getting enough enrolment it may decide to offer a lot of 25% discount anyway. Also the so so schools' offer is not hard to get...

If it's only English and GA, just get the kids to read more, get an electronic dictionary and get the kid to make it a habit to check for new words. Find materials from library suitable for the kid to read at around grade 6 and 7 (even though the kid is in gr5). For GA just make sure the kids do...

Many expensive private schools offer academic scholarships via this ACER testing program. How does it work? I notice that they have 2 writing, 1 reading and 1 maths. Does that mean it favours English to the extreme? Do tehy just add the scores or they have a formula to work out the profile mark...

How about self-learning as the ultimate success? I wonder how kids go through years of coaching and slip every time they stop. When you feed stuff to kids in a ready made fashion, they no longer feel the need to research. Coaching is supposed to behelping kids through some difficult stages of...

Ok, matey, if you really talk about insinuations. Tell me how many students who have been expelled because they are suspected of not putting the cash into the envelop without giving the benefit of the doubt that money got misplaced? Why cash in envelop? Why not bank deposit, cheques, credit card...

Prefer NOT to? I would never let coaching colleges touch my kids! I cannot imagine in my life that I would ever need the services of a coaching college! If you don't know something, you walk into a library! Simple as that. One one one type of coaching is actually much better. It was Ok a while...

The tax department had looked into this a while ago. It was public news. All coaching places tend to be subjected to investigation and forced to pay up.

Hey guys, I cameup with this simple formula to calculate OC/SS profile mark. I think it is fair. I tested on one kid I know and got the result only 0.25 marks off the real profile mark. I wonder if you guys could try on your own SS marks (in the past) to see whether it works. (Sum of all test...

Hey perhaps I should start a business! But hold on a moment, I am the kind of person who wants to explain to the absolute truth (like Plato's idea of perfect truth). That means I would probably waste all the time and fail to make any money. Seriously, if he teaches English himself, he is...

Are you working for him? A kid I know has just got a job with him because the kid got over 99 in ATAR. He is very smart using smart kids to train kids. He is a smart business man. Good pocket money for Uni students, easy money for him, cash only, ... From what I have heard, average kids going to...

Mr Ye would not make 1mil/year as his operation is very small and his fee looks quite low. It looks like he cannot find enough kids fitting his requirement so he keeps it small and play safe. Try it and you get no customers. It is very hard to build up customer base unless you start off from a...

Don't you think they all lie? There are only 4125 places this year. Only about 3500 last year. If you add all the claims you would get to 10000 places which is the expected BS you would hear from coaching colleges. I met parents who shop around all the time. They have been moving across big...

Tough job! perhaps just quickly identify gaps in his learning and give him some work and theory to fill these critical gaps. It is really not much you can do in such short notice.