Tips on a selective high school test?

Selective Entry High School Test Tips (Nossal, MHS)?

• Hi guys Im gonna try out for the Selective Entry High School Test and could some please give me some tests!!! I currently goto Dandenong High School and I am in the Accelerated Class (Where we study 1 year ahead in maths and english, so currently we are doing year 9 work in year 8) Umm i am about to start James Ann but I am still worried, in school I always get high marks on our chapter tests but I am still worried. My strong points are English, Spelling and Algebra, do I need to work on Trig and Pythagoras? Please Please Please Help!!!! And can someone please tell me how similar are the practise test questions on the Education Website (http://www.education.vic.gov.au/aboutschool/enrolling/selectentry/tests.htm) are to the real test!!! Please Help! And please tell me which year does the maths focus on (year 8, year 9, year 10?)

• Answer:

  HEY. :D Sorry, but other than the Gov. website, i don't think there are any other online sites that provide free tests. xD OMG. I went to Lyndale, another **** school... and was also in accelerated. :D James Ann is really good. I didn't go, but a few of my friends did. If you do them properly and actually revise on what parts you didn't understand, you should do okay on the exam. For english... You need to be able to read quickly and and scan for the right info, after checking what the q's are. Spelling is needed, but there's a lot of vocab stuff. so i recommend you learn some new words each day. For maths (i'mma typical asian xD, i like maths :P)... There were 2-3 questions on Trigonometry. Most of the questions are simple number equations or problem solving. And you have to work quick, 30 secs per question. just skip the ones you don't know and get back to it (if you have time), if you don't just colour in a random letter (good to stick with just ONE letter. eg: c) Btw. writing is really important. recommend you practice regularlu... this is where i stuffed up D: 15 mins to write a decent essay... plan in like 30 secs. write in 13 mins. and 1.5 mins to check. The test on the website is sorta like the actual one... as in, the verbal thing, is kind of a like. I think some of the questions were the same in the exam. :D Maths is mostly year 9-10. But simple stuuff, that you should be able to answer quickly, except for a few. if you don't answer all the q's, dw, cause it's meant to be like that. I had 5ish q's on the sections which i didn't answer. Seriously, don't stress now, I mean, it's so far away. I was a little get weary about whether i would be able to get in, since my entire family (cousins included) has gotten into mhs or macrob. But practice does pay off. PS: mhs, is the better school of the two, but you have to be commited if you wanna go there. you'll have to wake up early each day, since you live soo far away. I wake at 6 each day... D: but you guys start school later... lucky :D Anyway, good luck! we can be fwiends if you get it in :D (arghh, that was long :P)