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Did you have rlly good supporting documents like reports and extra curriculars or was it the HAST results that helped the most?
Definitely had HAST over my three reports. I had 16 As, 7 Bs, and 1 C. I also had some karate milestones/certificates, school long jump, shot put, AMC, BSC, JSO, etc., certificates, so it wasn't that many. Hast is definitely the deciding factor
 

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Definitely had HAST over my three reports. I had 16 As, 7 Bs, and 1 C. I also had some karate milestones/certificates, school long jump, shot put, AMC, BSC, JSO, etc., certificates, so it wasn't that many. Hast is definitely the deciding factor
Ohh ok.
 

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Definitely had HAST over my three reports. I had 16 As, 7 Bs, and 1 C. I also had some karate milestones/certificates, school long jump, shot put, AMC, BSC, JSO, etc., certificates, so it wasn't that many. Hast is definitely the deciding factor
Can you please advice how you prepared for the test? What materials did you use? And did you take any tutoring classes?
I didn’t pass this time, but I’m planning to try again next year, so any advice would really help.
Thanks so much in advance!
 

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Can you please advice how you prepared for the test? What materials did you use? And did you take any tutoring classes?
I didn’t pass this time, but I’m planning to try again next year, so any advice would really help.
Thanks so much in advance!
i used selective specialist and their tuition services, and if you want to be competent you need to study and revise the amterial a lot use the scholarship tests and the official practice test i was studying 9-10 hours a day the week before the test
 

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i used selective specialist and their tuition services, and if you want to be competent you need to study and revise the amterial a lot use the scholarship tests and the official practice test i was studying 9-10 hours a day the week before the test
thank you so much
 

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Hey guys I've tried out for baulko and its my dream skl but I haven't gotten in and idk what I'm doing wrong in the edutest prep. Like this year I did everything right like I knew how to do every question and for some reason I still got no superiors in edutest and I still did so bad I'm in year 8 rn and I wanna try out for year 10 entry baulko and I'm also doing hast for girra next year. Pls help I don't know what's going wrong
 

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are your reports and extra curricular good? If so, for the edutest, I recommend you practice hard vocabulary lists for verbal reasoning, you can find many on quiz let for free, keep revising them. Numerical reasoning is basically like GA, so practice GA books and questions, you might be able to find them online for free.

For writing, it’s always creative, so it’s always a narrative. I recommend you practice 20-30 minutes of writing every day. To improve your creative writing, you should watch a lot of fantasy/fictional movies or read fiction novels, to help you gain better ideas because this helped a lot of my friends gain entry.

For maths, you should practice time management, because there’s a lot of questions for very little time. The maths basically covers the syllabus of your current grade in depth, so focus on learning and grasping your maths syllabus very well then practising the questions.

I’d say that the edutest prep pack is a poor reflection of what is actually in the test, so I would tell you to go and purchase some scholarship tests practice which include services like giving feedback if you submit creative writing, because they’re a more realistic testing surface for the edutest than the edutest practice papers because they are quite easy.

hope this helped 🙂
 

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are your reports and extra curricular good? If so, for the edutest, I recommend you practice hard vocabulary lists for verbal reasoning, you can find many on quiz let for free, keep revising them. Numerical reasoning is basically like GA, so practice GA books and questions, you might be able to find them online for free.

For writing, it’s always creative, so it’s always a narrative. I recommend you practice 20-30 minutes of writing every day. To improve your creative writing, you should watch a lot of fantasy/fictional movies or read fiction novels, to help you gain better ideas because this helped a lot of my friends gain entry.

For maths, you should practice time management, because there’s a lot of questions for very little time. The maths basically covers the syllabus of your current grade in depth, so focus on learning and grasping your maths syllabus very well then practising the questions.

I’d say that the edutest prep pack is a poor reflection of what is actually in the test, so I would tell you to go and purchase some scholarship tests practice which include services like giving feedback if you submit creative writing, because they’re a more realistic testing surface for the edutest than the edutest practice papers because they are quite easy.

also I heard about selective specialist and I heard good reviews from it so you might wanna check that out too, it could be handy especially for hast

hope this helped 🙂
 

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are your reports and extra curricular good? If so, for the edutest, I recommend you practice hard vocabulary lists for verbal reasoning, you can find many on quiz let for free, keep revising them. Numerical reasoning is basically like GA, so practice GA books and questions, you might be able to find them online for free.

For writing, it’s always creative, so it’s always a narrative. I recommend you practice 20-30 minutes of writing every day. To improve your creative writing, you should watch a lot of fantasy/fictional movies or read fiction novels, to help you gain better ideas because this helped a lot of my friends gain entry.

For maths, you should practice time management, because there’s a lot of questions for very little time. The maths basically covers the syllabus of your current grade in depth, so focus on learning and grasping your maths syllabus very well then practising the questions.

I’d say that the edutest prep pack is a poor reflection of what is actually in the test, so I would tell you to go and purchase some scholarship tests practice which include services like giving feedback if you submit creative writing, because they’re a more realistic testing surface for the edutest than the edutest practice papers because they are quite easy.

hope this helped 🙂
I did the exact same thing this year and still got such poor results and I used a tutoring centre and I had lile a vocab word list of like idk 200 words or smth and ye like idk what to do anymore
 

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are your reports and extra curricular good? If so, for the edutest, I recommend you practice hard vocabulary lists for verbal reasoning, you can find many on quiz let for free, keep revising them. Numerical reasoning is basically like GA, so practice GA books and questions, you might be able to find them online for free.

For writing, it’s always creative, so it’s always a narrative. I recommend you practice 20-30 minutes of writing every day. To improve your creative writing, you should watch a lot of fantasy/fictional movies or read fiction novels, to help you gain better ideas because this helped a lot of my friends gain entry.

For maths, you should practice time management, because there’s a lot of questions for very little time. The maths basically covers the syllabus of your current grade in depth, so focus on learning and grasping your maths syllabus very well then practising the questions.

I’d say that the edutest prep pack is a poor reflection of what is actually in the test, so I would tell you to go and purchase some scholarship tests practice which include services like giving feedback if you submit creative writing, because they’re a more realistic testing surface for the edutest than the edutest practice papers because they are quite easy.

hope this helped 🙂
Also do you have experience in the test and if you don't mind me asking what school do you go to?
 

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I go to ruse but I was there for the edutest last year because they use some ruse school students as like mark scalers, like to see the performance of the cohort for the edutest in ruse
 

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I go to ruse but I was there for the edutest last year because they use some ruse school students as like mark scalers, like to see the performance of the cohort for the edutest in ruse
I need a lot of help bc I want to get a lot of superiors but the main issue is idk where I'm going wrong yk
 

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So maths seems to be your weak points whilst English is definitely more stronger. I don’t know about Baulkho, but I know for ruse, that the minimum they accept is 3 superiors and 2 of the second tier (I’m not sure if this is high average).
 

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yeah that’s make sense. I just wanted to ask did you have enough time to answer all the questions I. Maths, what exactly did you find difficult in the edutest
 

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yeah that’s make sense. I just wanted to ask did you have enough time to answer all the questions I. Maths, what exactly did you find difficult in the edutest
I don't actually remember exactly but I remember all the questions being super easy
 

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alright that’s good to hear, but also know for Baulkho they like extracurriculars a lot too because someone I know from a lower school got E in her report but she got in because of the edutest and because she did tonnes of extra curricular
 

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