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Edutest™
format
This company uses the same
format for scholarship and accelerated programs.
Those students wishing to
apply for scholarships or places at two different schools will
need to sit at the earliest exam and share the results with the
other school, after paying a fee to each school.
Their format for the exam is
as follows:
Written Expression (Creative
piece)
Mathematics
Reading Comprehension
Numerical Reasoning
Verbal reasoning
Our HES exam preparation workshops offer your child
techniques that will assist them in performing at their best on the
day.
Edutest™ Exam
Papers
Written
Expression This area looks to assess the ability of the
writer to clearly convey their thoughts in a written piece. The
Edutest™ website refers to the assessment of punctuation,
creativity, construction, grammar, spelling and relevance to the
task.
Common to all exams, the
writing component looks at the student’s ability to present their
thoughts through writing. The main aim is to assess the content,
structure and expression of the written piece.
Mathematics
The
Edutest™ website refer to mathematical knowledge, including number,
measurement, algebra, space and data. 30 minutes will be given for
60 questions.
ReadingComprehension The Edutest™ website notes that this
area “measures the capacity to read and interpret meaning from
written passages and sentence correction.” 30 minutes will be given
for 50 questions.
Numerical Reasoning
This
paper examines how well a student can think and reason numerically.
The paper might has about 45 questions to be completed
in 30 minutes.
Verbal Reasoning
This
paper looks to see how well a student can think and reason
verbally. The paper has sixty questions to be completed in 30
minutes.
YEAR
6 workshops Year 6
Dates and Prices
Writing (two half days).
Creative
Writing -
our emphasis here is on the structure of an essay, the use of
expressive language and the way to respond to an illustration or
other visual prompts.
Mathematics
(four half
days).
We focus on Maths problem
solving and exam technique. These workshops are not about training
in the basic processes of Mathematics. Students entering for
Scholarships should already be proficient at Maths. (over
nearly twenty years we have gathered from students information
about the questions used in exams).
There are two stages in
solving any problem.
o
Analysis – what is this problem really about?
What data does the question have which may help
solve it?
o Strategies
– the skills that will help to solve the problem.
Reading Comprehension
- A
one-day course (9:15am – 3:15pm) to teach students the skills of
inferential reading, as well as how to interpret maps, diagrams,
charts, and illustrations. To select from answers which include
partly correct answers, common errors of reasoning and
misconceptions requires students to analyse the text quite
closely.
Numerical Reasoning
- a half
day course to look with students at the skills that Numerical
Reasoning tests are examining. Numerical Reasoning Tests
measure the degree to which people can work comfortably with
quantitative concepts.
Verbal Reasoning
- a half day course to look with the students
at the skills that Verbal Reasoning tests examine. This paper looks
to examine the students’ ability see relationships between words
and solve problems using language. It includes verbal
analogies, synonyms, antonyms and logical reasoning.
Practice Exams
- are
fundamental to our program. Every practice exam comes with
complete performance analysis with detailed explanation for every
answer. We provide you with the most authentic testing
experience outside of the actual exam. Results are handed
back to students and parents within 15 minutes of the conclusion of
the exam with written explanations.
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