Selective Entry & Scholarship Tutoring in Tarneit

Tarneit families ask us the same two questions about Selective Entry & Scholarship: is my child actually behind, and what will you do about it? The first is answered by our free Skills Check, the second by this page. We are a local centre at 17/47 Apex Drive, Truganina VIC 3029, rated 5.0 on Google, tutoring Years 5 to 8 in person and online.

Selective Entry & Scholarship tutoring for Tarneit families

Tarneit is one of the youngest suburbs in Victoria by median age, with a large share of families who moved here for space and schooling. Many of our Tarneit students attend the newer P-9 colleges and then move to Tarneit Senior College for VCE, so the transition years (Year 6 to 7, and Year 9 to 10) come up often in our consultations.

The drive from Tarneit (3029) to our centre at 17/47 Apex Drive, Truganina VIC 3029 takes about 5 minutes, straight down Leakes Road. If getting to Truganina is awkward on a given day, the same session can run online with the same tutor.

Schools our Tarneit students come from

Students from Tarneit P-9 College, Tarneit Senior College, Tarneit Rise Primary School, Davis Creek Primary School and Baden Powell College come to us for Selective Entry & Scholarship, which means the tutor usually recognises the school's sequence and the way it tests.

• Tarneit P-9 College
• Tarneit Senior College
• Tarneit Rise Primary School
• Davis Creek Primary School
• Baden Powell College
• Thomas Carr College
• Good News Lutheran College

We also see Selective Entry & Scholarship students from neighbouring Truganina, Wyndham Vale, Hoppers Crossing and Werribee. See also our general tutoring page for Tarneit.

How we tutor Selective Entry & Scholarship (Years 5–8)

Two different exams bring families to us for this tutoring. The Victorian selective-entry high school exam is sat in Year 8 for entry to Year 9 at Melbourne High, Mac.Robertson Girls', Nossal and Suzanne Cory, the last of which is in Werribee and draws heavily from Melbourne's west. Scholarship tests for independent and Catholic schools are usually sat in Year 6 for Year 7 entry, and sometimes in Year 8 or 10, and are run by testing agencies rather than the schools themselves.

Both kinds of exam test more than the school curriculum. They include reading comprehension, mathematics, verbal and numerical reasoning, and one or two writing tasks, all under tight time limits and pitched above the student's current year level. A capable student who has only ever done classwork will find the reasoning sections unfamiliar and the timing brutal. That is the gap our preparation closes.

We start with a free Skills Check at the top of the student's year level, then a diagnostic on reasoning-style questions, so we know whether the work needed is knowledge (maths topics the student has not yet met), technique (how to attack a verbal reasoning set) or speed. The program is then built around those needs: typically weekly sessions across two or three terms, with a mix of explicit teaching, timed practice sets and feedback on writing.

Writing is where preparation makes the biggest difference. Selective and scholarship writing tasks are short, timed, and marked for ideas, structure, vocabulary and control of language. We teach students a plan they can execute in the time available for both persuasive and creative prompts, and we mark every piece so the student learns to edit as they write. Maths preparation covers the curriculum above the student's year level, plus the problem-solving strategies (working backwards, drawing a diagram, looking for patterns) that reasoning sections reward.

We are honest with families about the odds. These exams are competitive and preparation improves a student's chances but does not guarantee a place. What it does guarantee is a student who is a year ahead in maths and English and who can write well under pressure, which pays off in Years 7 to 10 regardless of the result. Preparation is available one-to-one and in small groups, at the Truganina centre and online.

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Curriculum topics we cover in Selective Entry & Scholarship

The list below is what the free Skills Check assesses for Selective Entry & Scholarship, by year level, and therefore what a Tarneit student's sessions are planned from. A tutor will always step back a year when a foundation topic is missing.

What the exams test

• Reading comprehension (literary and informational passages, inference, vocabulary)
• Mathematics (Year 8 and above for selective entry; Year 6 and above for Year 7 scholarships)
• Verbal reasoning (word relationships, analogies, logic)
• Numerical reasoning (number patterns, puzzles, applied problem solving)
• Writing (persuasive and creative tasks under strict time limits)

How it works

Pricing

One-to-one tutoring is $35–$45 an hour depending on the year level; small groups of up to five are from $25 an hour. Plans are monthly, you choose how many sessions a week, and you can cancel any time. The Skills Check and the consultation are free. Online and in-person sessions cost the same.

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Frequently asked questions

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