Because it takes longer for you to get a reply on this forum (if even an adequate/correct reply). It's not analogous to "Why find a tutor for help when you can ask your friend" because a tutor has a specific role which is to teach. I don't really mind tbh but I'm just saying efficiency wise...
for me - i had soccer regionals championship, debating nationals, cricket regionals, i speak a couple languages and quite a few academic awards (trophies)
yeah its mostly the test. Apart from that, if your extra curricular activities are something special, they will consider it, otherwise, it mostly depends on ALL aspects of the test
Yeah thats what i thought, but apparently there is no book list. I don't know if other public selective high schools are like this or not but surely we have something to follow along, and if its not in the fees then i really hace no idea