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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 Hendersons
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.
Nossal, Berwick and Suzanne Cory, Werribee indicate on their
websites each year 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. | 