Weekly live sessions with the same tutor for Ballarat families: maths, English and science from Prep to Year 10, NAPLAN, and honest senior-years support, starting with a free online Skills Check and priced from $25 an hour.
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RHZ Tutoring is a Melbourne centre that tutors students online across Australia, and Ballarat is one of the places we hear from most. Below: why families in Ballarat use us, what is specific to Victoria (NAPLAN, selective and scholarship testing, and the VCE), how online sessions run and what time they fall in Ballarat, subjects from Prep to Year 12, pricing, practice papers you can download today, and the questions Ballarat parents ask first.
Ballarat is a regional city with strong schools, including two of the highest-performing independent schools in the state, and a growing commuter population on the Melbourne train line. Beyond the city itself, families in the Central Highlands have a long drive to anything specialist.
Start with the curriculum. Every state's Prep to Year 10 maths, English and science syllabus is built on the Australian Curriculum (version 9), and Victoria is no exception, so the content a Year 8 student in Ballarat is doing this term is the content our tutors teach every day. Names differ (Foundation here, Prep there; a NESA or SCSA document rather than a Victorian one) but the sequence does not, and the tutor confirms the school's current unit in the first session.
The second reason is the free online Skills Check, which no local centre in Ballarat offers in this form. It is pitched at the top of the child's year level, drawn from a bank of 5,900 questions across Prep to Year 12, and produces a topic-by-topic report the same day. Instead of an enrolment chat and a generic placement test, you get a specific list: these topics are secure, these are shaky, these earlier-year skills are missing. A tutor then calls you for a free consultation to walk through it, and the first paid session is teaching rather than diagnosing.
Third, and for Ballarat families often first: access. A Year 10 student who needs help with science, or a Year 5 student who needs a literacy specialist, should not be limited by which tutors happen to live within driving distance. Online sessions give a child in Ballarat the same tutor a Melbourne child gets, matched by subject and level rather than by postcode, with no travel time on either side.
Then there is price. Small online groups are from $25 an hour and one-to-one is $35 to $45 an hour depending on year level, the same as our Melbourne families pay, with no lock-in and a free Skills Check and consultation first. We would rather you compare that against what a local centre in Ballarat quotes for the same hour than take our word for it.
Online tutoring puts a VCE Methods or Chemistry tutor, or a primary maths tutor, in a Ballarat home at the same price as in Melbourne, and small groups mean a Ballarat student can work alongside peers at the same level rather than waiting for a local group to form.
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Because NAPLAN is set nationally, a Ballarat student in Year 3, 5, 7 or 9 sits precisely the test our Melbourne students sit, in the same March window, on the same screen-based adaptive format. We prepare for it the same way everywhere: a Skills Check to find the domain and the skills that need work, a short program that teaches them, then NAPLAN-style questions to check they have stuck. Writing, where a single task carries the most marks, gets a plan for both the persuasive and the narrative prompt.
Victoria's selective-entry high schools (Melbourne High, Mac.Robertson Girls', Nossal and Suzanne Cory) take students from Year 9, with the exam sat in Year 8, and regional students are eligible. In practice regional families more often prepare for independent-school scholarship tests sat in Year 6 or for accelerated-learning programs at the local secondary colleges, and we tutor for both.
In Years 11 and 12 we tutor the VCE fully for Ballarat students: Mathematical Methods, General Mathematics, Specialist Mathematics, English, Chemistry, Physics and Biology, to the current VCAA study designs, with SAC preparation, past VCAA examinations and examiner reports, and bound-reference building across the year. It is the same VCE tutoring our Melbourne students receive, and for a student in Ballarat it is often the only way to find a tutor for a subject like Specialist Maths or Physics.
Our material lines up with what is taught at Ballarat High School, Ballarat Clarendon College, Ballarat Grammar and Phoenix P-12 Community College and every other school in Ballarat for Prep to Year 10, because all of them plan from the same Australian Curriculum content. Bring the latest school test or assignment to the first session and the tutor will see immediately how the school is assessing.
Sessions run live over video with a tutor based in Melbourne. They are not recorded lessons and not an app: it is the same tutor every week, who knows your child, using the same Skills Check, planning and reporting as our Truganina centre.
Ballarat is the same time as Melbourne all year: a 4pm session booked in Melbourne time is 4pm in Ballarat. Ballarat is on AEST/AEDT, the same clock as Melbourne.
| Melbourne slot | Ballarat time |
|---|---|
| Weekday 4pm | 4pm |
| Weekday 5pm | 5pm |
| Weekday 6pm | 6pm |
| Saturday 10am | 10am |
No conversion needed: book the after-school slot that suits and it is the same on both clocks. All a student needs is a laptop or tablet with a camera, a stable connection and a quiet spot; for maths, a phone pointed at the page lets the tutor watch the working.
Maths (number, fractions, measurement, problem solving), English (reading, phonics, spelling, grammar and writing), and NAPLAN preparation for Years 3 and 5.
Maths, English and science to the Australian Curriculum, NAPLAN for Years 7 and 9, and preparation for scholarship and selective-entry tests.
Mathematical Methods, General Maths, Specialist Maths, English, Chemistry, Physics and Biology, Units 1 to 4, tutored fully to the current VCAA study designs.
Small online groups of two to four at the same year level from $25 an hour, or one-to-one from $35 an hour. The same tutor every week, a free Skills Check first and a progress note after every session.
The Skills Check is free, online, and works in Ballarat exactly as it does in Truganina. Your child does 10 to 15 minutes of questions pitched at the top of their year level, drawn from a 5,900-question bank covering Prep to Year 12, and you receive a topic-by-topic report the same day. A tutor then calls you for a free consultation to walk through it. Many families run it in Term 4 to plan the next year, and again before NAPLAN or a selective test.
There is no card and no commitment. If the result shows your child is on track, we will say so; if it shows a gap, we will tell you exactly which topics and suggest a plan.
One-to-one online tutoring is $35–$45 an hour by year level; small online groups of up to four are from $25 an hour. Prices are the same as for families who come to our Melbourne centre; there is no interstate surcharge. Plans are monthly, you choose the number of sessions a week, and you can pause or cancel any time. The Skills Check and the consultation are free.
Our Australian-curriculum practice papers are sold as instant PDF downloads: buy from Ballarat, print at home, and mark against the included answers. They cover primary maths and English, Years 7 to 10 maths, and NAPLAN-style reading, writing and numeracy for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9, all of which line up with the Victoria syllabus because they are written to the same Australian Curriculum content. Many families use them alongside tutoring, or on their own between Skills Checks.
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Yes. Our tutors are Victorian-curriculum trained and we tutor the VCE fully, so a student in Ballarat gets exactly the tutoring our Melbourne students get, including SAC preparation and past VCAA exams in Years 11 and 12.
Ballarat is the same time as Melbourne all year. A 4pm weekday session in Melbourne time is 4pm in Ballarat. We book in your local time, confirm the Melbourne equivalent in writing, and adjust automatically when clocks change.
For Prep to Year 10, yes in content and sequence. Each state publishes its own version (NESA syllabuses in New South Wales, the SCSA curriculum in Western Australia, the Victorian Curriculum in Victoria) but all are built on the Australian Curriculum version 9, so a Year 5 child in Ballarat is doing the same fractions, decimals and measurement as a Year 5 child in Melbourne. Years 11 and 12 are where the states genuinely differ.
Yes, for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. NAPLAN is a national test, so a Ballarat student sits exactly the test our Melbourne students sit. Small online groups by year level run from Term 4 to the March test window, built from the Skills Check, and one-to-one is available all year.
Yes. The Victorian selective-entry exam is sat in Year 8 and scholarship tests usually in Year 6, and regional students are eligible for both. We run the same program our Melbourne students use, online, from a Skills Check and a reasoning diagnostic.
The same as in Melbourne: small online groups from $25 an hour and one-to-one $35 to $45 an hour depending on year level. Plans are monthly with no lock-in. The Skills Check and the consultation are free, and there is no interstate surcharge.
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