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At the moment for my English writing I get AI to mark it and give me feedback which I incorporate, and idk my results yet (hope I don’t jinx it) but for my craft I’ve writing assessment I think I got 100%. After reading just one book my vocab and everything improved and I am crazy at creative writing. If it’s persuasive im done for cause I haven’t done that since year 7 :(

I mean maths and science yeah that’s fair but last yr I think I got like top 30% in it, maybe I was dumb but I don’t know

Dw I struggle the same way for reading comprehension but for some reason I found naplan reading sooo easy even when they tried throwing the hardest texts at me, I could still understand it. Vocabulary is my only real issue honestly, cause if there’s a word I don’t know it’s ggs

For abstract Ill lowkey look into the free hast booklets since I use studocu for math papers from selective schools (if u can’t tell already I love math and hate english but im good at English and bad at math)

And then my reports for y8 sem 1, 4A, 4B
Sem 2- 6A, 1B, 1C
(As in core subjects for every report apart from y8 sem 1 math)
Year 9 sem 1 im thinking straight As at the moment but MAYBE a B in history or commerce

My excs should be enough but I didn’t do any of the icas or math comps.

Thanks again for the help because this yr is probably my best chance to move schools
When I did the hast I only had a discursive prompt both times and honestly I'm not sure if that thats what they'll give you, if you have any friends you have done the hast you could ask them what their writing stimulus was.

You dont have to do icas compeitions, find past papers online for icas reading just to get you into the habit and if you're worried abotu vocab I suggest probably getting in habit of practising reading comprehension with like practise papers cause then you will reduce your fear and you will start to hopefully be able to assume meanings from based off the context or sentence of the word given by the story.
 

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When I did the hast I only had a discursive prompt both times and honestly I'm not sure if that thats what they'll give you, if you have any friends you have done the hast you could ask them what their writing stimulus was.

You dont have to do icas compeitions, find past papers online for icas reading just to get you into the habit and if you're worried abotu vocab I suggest probably getting in habit of practising reading comprehension with like practise papers cause then you will reduce your fear and you will start to hopefully be able to assume meanings from based off the context or sentence of the word given by the story.
so does the prompt tell you to write discursive or is just suggest.
 

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guysssss I need help for edutest reading like how am I supposed to read these long ahh texts in like 20 seconds 😭
 

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Ohh ok. So write a narrative then say how it proves what the prompt is saying?
u can say thus timmy ( assuming the main character's name ) learned that the real leadership lies not in the loudest voice but rather in the individual'sabily to lead, learn, communicate and stand as example before the eyes of his fellow peers. Leadership is built on trust or smt (mention the prompt like as if ur the narrator of a documentary or somesort ykwim ? etc etc like that
 

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u can say thus timmy ( assuming the main character's name ) learned that the real leadership lies not in the loudest voice but rather in the individual'sabily to lead, learn, communicate and stand as example before the eyes of his fellow peers. Leadership is built on trust or smt (mention the prompt like as if ur the narrator of a documentary or somesort ykwim ? etc etc like that
Ohh okk. That example is rlly good btw.
 

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selective transferring in yr 8-11 looks so much harder than just the yr 7 test😅
are any of you guys sitting scholarships? i could give some advice cuz i got a full ride for yr 7-12
also i didn't know they changed it, when i sat the selective it used to be thinking skills
is abstract reasoning the same thing?
 
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