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The Selective Test is a measure for students academic merit and critical thinking abilities. Your child's performance is measured out of 120. In order to attain placement into your desired school, your child must achieve the minimum entry score required.
The NSW Selective High School Placement Test for Year 7 entry consists of 3 multiple choice tests (Reading, Thinking Skills, Mathematical Reasoning) and a Writing task.
The Selective Test date:
9 March 2023.
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The Selective thinking skills test is crafted to analyse a student's problem solving, critical and creative thinking skills. The foundational topics include logical reasoning (~60% of questions), mathematical deduction (~25% of questions), and the remaining 15% of questions as spatial reasoning.
Thinking Skills Test Structure
Consists of 40 multiple questions with the time limit of 40 minutes.
The Selective reading comprehension component are multiple choice questions that measure your child's ability to inference and interpret meaning from a passage and then problem solve to find out the answer. Reading passages could range from poems, novel extracts, cartoons and articles.
Reading Test Structure
Consists of 30 multiple choice questions with the time limit of 40 minutes.
The Selective mathematics component are multiple choice questions that measure your child's ability to spontaneously use their mathematical skills such as mental maths and formula re-collection to find out the answer in the quickest and most accurate way possible. Topic areas include data interpretation, spatial awareness, measurements, number patterns, arithmetic, algebraic & geometric operations.
Mathematical Reasoning Test Structure
Consists of 35 multiple choice questions with a time limit of 40 minutes.
The writing test in Selective is an open response where students have to write either a creative, informative or persuasive text depending on the stimulus.
Writing Test Structure
Consists of a stimulus where students have to write a written response to a single prompt in a time frame of 30 minutes.
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