Increase your child's chances for success with a vast range of OC-style exams.

The Opportunity Class Test is a measure for students academic merit and critical thinking abilities. The new OC test will be scored out of 100 (previously scored out of 200).

In order to attain placement into your desired school, your child must achieve the minimum entry score required. The test consists of 3 parts (Thinking Skills, Mathematical Reasoning and Reading).

To apply for entry into an Opportunity Class Primary School there is an online application which the NSW Education Department offers. The application opens around mid-June and closes mid-July depending on when it is issued. To have a complete application, your child must complete the Opportunity Class Placement test.

The benefit of sending your child to an Opportunity Class Primary school is that it provides a unique and stimulating academic experience. It achieves this through having children with a similar academic ability in an academically enriching environment.

This could include providing more challenging content for students to develop their skills and faster-paced learning processes, so your child doesn't get bored.

Opportunity Class schools often have a higher percentage of students who receive a placement into a Selective School. If you plan to send your child to such high school, an OC school is the correct stepping stone.

There are 76 primary schools with an Opportunity Classes across New South Wales.

The Opportunity Class Placement Test Structure comprises of three parts. These include Thinking Skills (30 Minutes | 30 Questions), Mathematical Reasoning (40 Minutes | 35 Questions) and Reading (30 Minutes | 25 Questions).

The Opportunity Class Placement Test has been structured to focus on problem solving, mathematical reasoning and thinking skills to better highlight students understanding of the topics. The test difficulty level aligns with content learnt and tested in Year 5, 6 and 7. Hence, the OC test is more challenging than normal classwork.

NotesEdu's OC tests follow the exam-style questions and test format according to the examination conducting bodies to simulate the actual test environment. To align with the actual OC test, we modify our questions and bring in more quality questions with the varying difficulty level after questioning past students who have completed the exam.

NotesEdu's online tests challenge students' academic ability and intends to measure the level of knowledge gained in a particular concept. From this information, we empower students, parents and teachers to discover area for further improvement.

NotesEdu test results provide valuable information to the parent about their child's performance and enables them in identifying the subject areas their child needs improvement.

Besides talent, the intense practice for an extended period makes a person an expert in their field. The difference in students performance is due to a notion known as "deliberate practice".

A student needs to be motivated to improve their performance and continuously put an effort to become better. Use your pre-existing knowledge and review your performance to know what went wrong and what needs improvement.

There are three reliable ways to improve your child's test scores:
1) Genuine improvements in the subject knowledge to improve your abilities.
2) Decrease anxiety, increased familiarity with format, and time management.
3) Practice tests that increase familiar with what to expect in the tests, for example, questions types, and test format. Taking practice tests under time constraints similar to the live testing situation will best prepare the student for test-taking conditions and hence lower stress on exam-day.

The practice may not make you perfect, but it will certainly improve your abilities.

We offer a range of time-bound tests that are modelled on past papers. Our test familiarises the students with the test format and questions types. NotesEdu's subscription offers unlimited access to a large bank of multiple-choice questions formatted similar to the Opportunity Class Test. We incorporate the exam-style questions that a student needs to build an in-depth knowledge for gaining a placement into their school of choice.

NotesEdu online tests will help you to identify your child current knowledge in reading/maths/thinking skills, their knowledge sets and capabilities for the examination. It also provides you with the opportunity to develop a baseline to work from and develop your child academic journey plan for consistently testing their knowledge and further developing their skills. The child scholarship examination is a family journey where you and your child can enjoy by being with each other until your child has taken the test.

If you are disappointed with your score, please do not give up or get sad about it.

It is usual for a score to fluctuate and differ between tests. Various factors may impact your performance, for example, your knowledge about the concept, concentration level, review of answers or even luck with guessing.

Take the low score as an opportunity to improve further. Focus on what you can do about it. After finishing NotesEdu's practice tests, review all questions to check what went wrong and how can you improve next time.

Remember: Hard work beats talent, when talent fails to work hard.