Year 11 Selective test 2020 (2 Viewers)

[DSdude23]

Hi,
I have applied for girraween high...and I will be doing the test this week...(hast)
There are like 20 vacancies
I have got 1 outstanding, 1 sound, 1 basic and rest of them are "A"
I do have 20-25 certificates and couple of medals... from past two years (2020-2019)
Do you think I will get in.....can you give some tips and some practice papers if you guys have....

Thanks!

 

[dem()sthenes]

Hi,
I have applied for girraween high...and I will be doing the test this week...(hast)
There are like 20 vacancies
I have got 1 outstanding, 1 sound, 1 basic and rest of them are "A"
I do have 20-25 certificates and couple of medals... from past two years (2020-2019)
Do you think I will get in.....can you give some tips and some practice papers if you guys have....

Thanks!

Aren't A's meant to be outstanding?

 

[Minari243]

Hi,
I have applied for girraween high...and I will be doing the test this week...(hast)
There are like 20 vacancies
I have got 1 outstanding, 1 sound, 1 basic and rest of them are "A"
I do have 20-25 certificates and couple of medals... from past two years (2020-2019)
Do you think I will get in.....can you give some tips and some practice papers if you guys have....

Thanks!

Girra doesn't place much emphasis on the reports, they focus mainly on the results of ur hast

 

[Minari243]

What about Penrith?

They have a hast this year unlike last year but im assuming the same thing

 

[DSdude23]

Oh okay ... Is the hast test hard....how many reading passages are there...and what about writing....can you give some tips.....

 

[dem()sthenes]

The test is hard, yes. Don't know about the passages, writing prompt is either a persuasive or a narrative. Tips? (lol)

1. Practise some IQ tests online.
2. Do some maths problem solving/numerical reasoning.
3. Do some reading comprehension questions.

 

[DSdude23]

The test is hard, yes. Don't know about the passages, writing prompt is either a persuasive or a narrative. Tips? (lol)

1. Practise some IQ tests online.
2. Do some maths problem solving/numerical reasoning.
3. Do some reading comprehension questions.

THANKS I am scared now.....

 

[wzsmartypants]

Does North Sydney boys focus more on test or report?

 

[DSdude23]

Is abstract reasoning just patterns and series.....

 

[DSdude23]

My mum bought me a HAST example booklet, this is what I got:
Abstract Reasoning
This is a multiple-choice test that measures your ability

to analyse information and solve problems using non-
verbal reasoning. You will be required to identify a pattern

shown in a sequence of diagrams. The pattern may need
to be continued or completed, or the diagrams may
need to be re-arranged to identify the middle object in a
sequence. The diagrams completing the pattern may have
a number of elements including size, shape, shading and
orientation, that need to be considered when deciphering
the pattern.
Information is presented in picture format using squares,
triangles, lines and graphical images.

Thank you so much....

 

[MasonShah]

My mum bought me a HAST example booklet, this is what I got:
Abstract Reasoning
This is a multiple-choice test that measures your ability

to analyse information and solve problems using non-
verbal reasoning. You will be required to identify a pattern

shown in a sequence of diagrams. The pattern may need
to be continued or completed, or the diagrams may
need to be re-arranged to identify the middle object in a
sequence. The diagrams completing the pattern may have
a number of elements including size, shape, shading and
orientation, that need to be considered when deciphering
the pattern.
Information is presented in picture format using squares,
triangles, lines and graphical images.

Can you tell us anything about the other sections in the booklet, like maths or reading?

 

[DSdude23]

Can you tell us anything about the other sections in the booklet, like maths or reading?

Ya...Can you please tell us the content.......

 

[MasonShah]

Ya...Can you please tell us the content.......

I have my HAST test this week too, at Caringbah, good luck to you bro

 

[DSdude23]

I have my HAST test this week too, at Caringbah, good luck to you bro

Good Luck...are you prepared...have you done his before.....

 

[MasonShah]

Good Luck...are you prepared...have you done his before.....

I have been loading myself with maths, tho I don't think the maths I am doing will be in the test cause its like end of year ten stuff Lmao, and nah this is my first time doing something like this. Third time moving schools tho lmao

 

[MasonShah]

Not bad, an As in the main stuff, like English, Maths, Science and Engineering, and a B in everything else
And caringbah didn't take co-curricular stuff but for my sydney tech application I had like
Maths Olympiad
House Captain
Public Speaking
2 Academic Awards in English
Two other academic awards
Heaps of sport stuff
This poetry competition participation thing

 

[dem()sthenes]

DSdude23, cut back on the ellipses mate.....

 

[MasonShah]

damn that's really good

Yeah its alright, just need to not screw up the test tho cause they accept you based on that, mostly worried about the English part ironically bc I have no clue as to what stimulus they will give me

 

[MasonShah]

yeah tru it's so hard to prepare for English, the stimulus can be virtually anything

Yeah exactly, are you applying for any schools?

 

[MasonShah]

I didn’t get that...what is it...

He means the '...' lmao