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Holemama

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Hey everyone,





I just did Edutest this year and, tbh, my Reading and Verbal Reasoning scores weren’t great 😅. I’ve seen ppl here get multiple Superiors and I’m really curious how u prepped.





  • What specific resources or sites actually helped (not just “read more”)?
  • Did u mostly grind past papers or work on vocab/logic stuff?
  • How early did u start, and how much did u practise each week?
  • Any hacks for staying focused and managing time in those long reading comps?
  • Did tutoring or study groups help?







Would love to hear what worked for u guys cus I wanna level up big time for next year 🙏🔥
 

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Has anyone done the normanhurst interview yet? I'm applying for yr 11 and would like to know the questions thanks
 
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Hey everyone,





I just did Edutest this year and, tbh, my Reading and Verbal Reasoning scores weren’t great 😅. I’ve seen ppl here get multiple Superiors and I’m really curious how u prepped.





  • What specific resources or sites actually helped (not just “read more”)?
  • Did u mostly grind past papers or work on vocab/logic stuff?
  • How early did u start, and how much did u practise each week?
  • Any hacks for staying focused and managing time in those long reading comps?
  • Did tutoring or study groups help?







Would love to hear what worked for u guys cus I wanna level up big time for next year 🙏🔥
Hiiii, I still don't know my edutest scores but I'm doing the interview to Ruse on Wednesday. My mum bought the edutest past papers, and they are really similar, so I would say work on them. They also basically tell you what's tested. For eg. math, there will be trig, geometry, financial, so like focus on that. Take screenshots of wrong questions (and right ones if you want to). And for vocab, write it down and go over it (memorise). I think there were at least 3 words that came up again. ALSO MAKE SURE TO READ THE QUESTION PROPERLY. I pretty much only started revising make 3 weeks before, but my math is ok, so it was fine for me. In all honesty, I kind of revised last minute so... Anyways, for reading comps, read the questions first AND THEN read the passage. I don't have any tips on staying focused though- I kind of just get into the zone of doing an assessment. Tutoring did not help like specifically, I think just make sure you are well rounded in all areas (eg. I would do math regularly regardless of assessments so I was well versed in all the math topics rather than revising purely for the edutest).

I hope that helps!
 

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Bro i haven‘t gotten anything. No results and no interview offers. I’m doing year 7 to year 8 for Ruse. Anyone the same age got anything?
 

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Bro i haven‘t gotten anything. No results and no interview offers. I’m doing year 7 to year 8 for Ruse. Anyone the same age got anything?
shortlists for all grades wouldve come out by now because year 9 entry interviews are on monday and all other grades are on wednesday
 

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Hiiii, I still don't know my edutest scores but I'm doing the interview to Ruse on Wednesday. My mum bought the edutest past papers, and they are really similar, so I would say work on them. They also basically tell you what's tested. For eg. math, there will be trig, geometry, financial, so like focus on that. Take screenshots of wrong questions (and right ones if you want to). And for vocab, write it down and go over it (memorise). I think there were at least 3 words that came up again. ALSO MAKE SURE TO READ THE QUESTION PROPERLY. I pretty much only started revising make 3 weeks before, but my math is ok, so it was fine for me. In all honesty, I kind of revised last minute so... Anyways, for reading comps, read the questions first AND THEN read the passage. I don't have any tips on staying focused though- I kind of just get into the zone of doing an assessment. Tutoring did not help like specifically, I think just make sure you are well rounded in all areas (eg. I would do math regularly regardless of assessments so I was well versed in all the math topics rather than revising purely for the edutest).

I hope that helps!
Hah, I think you’re just naturally really good at this stuff 😄. Even if you only revised last minute, that takes skill lol. Thanks for sharing the tips though
 
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Hey everyone,





I just did Edutest this year and, tbh, my Reading and Verbal Reasoning scores weren’t great 😅. I’ve seen ppl here get multiple Superiors and I’m really curious how u prepped.





  • What specific resources or sites actually helped (not just “read more”)?
  • Did u mostly grind past papers or work on vocab/logic stuff?
  • How early did u start, and how much did u practise each week?
  • Any hacks for staying focused and managing time in those long reading comps?
  • Did tutoring or study groups help?







Would love to hear what worked for u guys cus I wanna level up big time for next year 🙏🔥
For the verbal reasoning remember not to hesitate about the vocab questions and put more time on the logic questions. I feel like a lot of people hesitate too much and end up not finishing the paper.
 

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Looking for year 6-year 10 math resources as well as year 11-year 12 mathematcis advanced resoucres (preferably tutoring stuff however anaything is fine) as well as any chem stuff. -- I have resources to trade for every subject up to the hsc level -- please let me know if you'd like to trade or i can buy it -- thank uu
 

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