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Melbourne High School selects
a minimum of 28 students to enter Year 10. This is a minimum
as the total number of places is dependent on natural
attrition.
Entry is via application,
entrance exam and interview.
On the day of the exam all
candidates hand in:
Copies of the applicant’s
last two school reports[year 8 end of year and year 9 mid year]
A written application which
includes a statement of achievement against the Selection Criteria,
supporting documentation and a single A4 page Personal
Statement.
The exam is:
- Creative writing paper (15 minutes to complete)
- An Analytical writing paper (15 minutes to complete)
- Reading Comprehension paper (50 questions in 30
minutes)
- Mathematics problem solving paper (60 questions in 30
minutes)
- Verbal Reasoning paper (60 questions in 30 minutes)
- Numerical Reasoning paper (50 questions in 30
minutes)
Our HES exam preparation workshops
offer your children techniques
that will assist them in performing at their best on the
day.
After completing the exam,
a selection panel
reviews the results and
letters of application in order to select candidates for interview.
Usually, about sixty students are assigned appointments in
groups of six. They are reviewed on the way in which they interact
with other students, perform group exercises and have one on one
interviews with the principal or a vice – principal.
Please note that HES offers
Year 8/9 workshops for Year 9 students. We teach techniques
for the exam and not content. Our presumption is that a
student will have the required level of knowledge to attain a place
at the school.
Please note: the candidates
who applied for John Monash Science School in July 2009 only had to
sit the science paper if they had sat for Melbourne High or Mac.Rob
for Year 10.
Nossal, Berwick has not
indicated if they will accept applications for places for Year 10.
YEAR
8 workshops Year 8/9 Dates and
Prices
Writing-We have two programs. They are called
Creative Writing and Analytical Writing (EACH is two half days or
one whole day).
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.
Analytical
Writing -
our emphasis here is on the organisation of this type of essay, the
use of effective language and the way to express a point of view or
an argument.
Mathematics (four half days or two whole
days).
We focus on Maths problem
solving and exam technique. These workshops are not about training
in the basic processes of Mathematics. Students sitting for
these exams 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 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.
Verbal
Reasoning - A one-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.
Numerical
Reasoning- A one-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.
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 and corrected papers are handed back to
students and parents within fifteen minutes of the conclusion of
the exam with written explanations. | 