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what assumptions would you suggest? ok I've just read in a scholarship testing book that the cohort of kids that sit scholarship exams is generally composed of the top 20% in their state although theres no source cited for that assumption

If a kid scores in the top 5% humanities, top 10% maths and top 25% writing in the Acer scholarship exam for year 7 can you extrapolate that to an approximate percentile equivalent ? initially I thought top 25% for writing was not very good but then I realised that if only the top 15% of kids...

Thanks everyone for the informative/helpful insights. So it seems the consensus is to do what you find interesting as it shouldnot really have any meaningful impact on your performance in later HSC studies

I realise they will not look at your Y9 subjects when you apply for med but i was more wondering if not doing science subjects will put you at a disadvantage when you start doing science for HSC? i.e if you don't do science electives in Y9 will you have a harder time catching up when you do...

How important is the choice of year 9 elective subjects if you eventually want to do medicine? If Science is one of your compulsory subjects, is it neccessary/helpful to choose science subjects (e.g. physics, chemistry or biology) as electives for year 9? I'm thinking it would be nice to...

How much weight, if any, do extracurricular activities have in getting into undergraduate or postgrad Medicine? eg. Playing rep sports, being school captain, community work, playing a musical instrument, dancing awards etc or is it basically just down to ATAR/ gamsat?

Anyone know what proportion of medical students get into medicine as undergrads vs postgrad routes? I get the impression under-grad entry is much harder, so I'm guessing 80-90% enter via post-grad vs 10-20% going in as undergrads anyone have an opinion or data about this? thanks

top 1% for reading means you must be extremely clever - was your maths somewhere around the same ballpark level do you think? Were you heavily tutored when you sat the scholarship exam? Do you think an intelligent kid without extensive tutoring could realistically get an academic scholarship...

Does anyone know how private school academic scholarships for year 7 or 10 entry are awarded? how much of the weighting is based on the scholarship exam? What other factors help? How clever do you have to be to get one (eg top 1 percentile academically or top 0.1percentile?) How rare is it...

Hi Can anybody help a bro out and hook me up with free Year 4 ICAS past papers for Maths/science/English? I could pay a small amount if needed ($20 for the lot?) thanks

if your son or idkkdi want to give it a shot sometime let me know - could try just an ad hoc single session with no need for a regular commitment. Even just a one-off session that might spark interest in learning would be worthwhile to me. Also if it turns out to be useless thats ok too i...

do u tutor and do u want to give it a shot with my kids? Could try via zoom?

yes I'm looking for a challenging tutor but not sure if they are available I've come across the study youtube videos by Dr Justin Sung and started on his online icanstudy course which on the face of it seems to be absolutely brilliant for learning and is blowing my mind - so I plan to learn the...

he's had a period of being interested and quite good at chess (for a beginner) but we drifted away from it - might try again but its not something hes ever going to be really enthused about much unless he has friends he want to beat I suspect (and his friends don't play chess to any good level)

wow - your summary is a perfect reflection of my thinking - interesting to hear that Minecraft may have some benefits beyong the creative aspect of building stuff. I hadnt considered the spatial ability / thinking skills benefits - i might actually let him play a little bit more now - I've let...

You provide some great insights which made me think so thanks for that I agree with them. The issue is that going with his interests only goes so far and is limited in extent eg he does like watching YouTube science experiments and will do them spontaneously himself but that might only happen a...

the older one does one tutoring session per week at a coaching centre class and likes it but i'm not really keen on standard tutoring in general (because I think encourages an inefficient method of rote/brute force learning, at least in the coaching centres I've seen anyway) and would prefer...

i didnt really have a fixed idea as not sure about tutor availability. But I think a 2hour session on a weekend for the 9 year old alone as a start would be good to see if it works

either very small group or one on one (probably one on one)

north shore, sydney, flexible budget