YEARS 5–9
Scholarship and selective entry
Selective entry and scholarship testing, taught as reasoning rather than as tricks.
What it covers
- Verbal reasoning: analogies, vocabulary, logical relationships
- Numerical reasoning: pattern, sequence and quantitative logic
- Abstract and non-verbal reasoning
- Reading comprehension under significant time pressure
- Written expression to a prompt, planned in minutes
- Pacing, and knowing when to leave a question
Who it is for
Learners sitting Victorian selective entry, independent school scholarship tests or academic-stream entry examinations.
How it runs
Weekly small group, with timed practice built into the retrieval opener rather than bolted on at the end.
Curriculum coverage
A selection of the learning areas explored in this program. Your diagnostic determines the starting point and learning sequence.
- Analogy, classification and logical relationships
- Sequence, pattern and quantitative reasoning
- Non-verbal pattern and spatial reasoning
- Inference and evaluation at speed
- Planning and structure under a strict clock
- Pacing, skipping and checking
Price
From $89 per session, GST inclusive. No lock-in contract, two weeks' notice, pause any time. Second subject 20% off and siblings 15% off on group memberships.
Questions
Is coaching for selective entry fair?
It is common, which is not the same thing. We teach reasoning that is useful regardless of the test result, and we will tell you honestly if we think a learner is not suited to the pathway.
What if my child does not get in?
Then they have a year of properly taught reasoning and comprehension behind them, which is why we teach it this way.
How early should we start?
A year out is comfortable. Six weeks out is format familiarisation, not skill building, and we will say so.
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