Entrance Exams
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Year Levels
Years 5 to 9
Sessions
Weekly, plus timed practice papers
The exam rewards a skill your child isn't taught at school
Selective entry and scholarship exams don't test the curriculum. They test numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning and general ability under severe time pressure — often around a minute a question, on question types most students have never seen. Bright students routinely underperform on their first attempt, not because they lack ability, but because nobody has shown them the format. That part is entirely learnable.
- Nossal High School and Victorian select entry preparation
- Scholarship exams for Beaconhills, St Francis Xavier and the Berwick grammars
- Full mock papers sat under real exam conditions
How preparation works
Sessions cover numerical reasoning, mathematical reasoning and general ability, working through the specific question types these exams use and the shortcuts that make them fast rather than slow. Students sit full mock papers under timed conditions, and we work through every question they missed — including the ones they guessed correctly, since those are the ones that catch them out in the real thing. Preparation is best started a year ahead. Students who begin six weeks before the exam can improve, but they're learning the format and the content at the same time. One-to-one or in groups capped at three students, in Officer and Pakenham or online across Victoria.
Further reading: What the Nossal High School entrance exam actually tests
