Scholarships & Private Education
Each year private and independent schools offer academic and general scholarships. The process involves sitting a specific exam and often an interview. This can be challenging for students.
Brainworks scholarship tutoring prepares students from years 3 to 9 for scholarship tests for private schools by working through a framework of content that is customised and targeted to their needs. All students are taught one to one using key techniques for their scholarship exam preparation.
Being taught one to one for scholarship exam preparation is important to your child because they will;
- become confident about the scholarship exam process and their own capabilities- build skills progressively to be able to effectively assimilate new knowledge
- familiarise themselves with the test format and style of questions
- improve exam technique and strategy including timing to be able to cope with the format
Each year private and independent schools offer academic and general scholarships. The process involves sitting a specific exam and often an interview. This can be challenging for students.
Brainworks scholarship tutoring prepares students from years 3 to 9 for scholarship tests for private schools by working through a framework of content that is customised and targeted to their needs. All students are taught one to one using key techniques for their scholarship exam preparation.
Being taught one to one for scholarship exam preparation is important to your child because they will;
- become confident about the scholarship exam process and their own capabilities- build skills progressively to be able to effectively assimilate new knowledge
- familiarise themselves with the test format and style of questions
- improve exam technique and strategy including timing to be able to cope with the format
When to prepare?
Most scholarship exams are conducted during February and March. Term three or four is an appropriate time for students to commence scholarship preparation programs. Some schools now conduct their initial exams at earlier dates, during October and November. Scholarship preparation for these exams can commence in term 2.
Scholarship Intensive Programs are available for early scholarship exam preparation. Here is a list of the venues offering the Holiday Intensive Scholarship Program in January.
Just thought we would send you a quick line to let you know that Cassandra has received a 50% academic scholarship at her school. We are obviously thrilled and happy with the way she managed it all given that there was little preparation. We just wanted to thank you for the time spent helping her to get an understanding of the test process and focussing on the areas where we could get maximum improvement in the time available. Michelle
We would like to express our thanks for all your help with Nicholas and Matthew over the last few months in the preparation for their application for a General Excellence Scholarship at Huntingtower. I'm happy to inform you they were both successful and we are thrilled. Meropi
A huge thank you for the support and guidance you provided Brianna last semester when she was preparing for a scholarship exam. I am so proud and happy to advise she has been offered a year 7-12 scholarship. i was informed she did extremely well. Thank you so much for all your help. Your course and support gave her the confidence to do well. Sue
|Course Structure
Course Components
Subjects studied include reading comprehension, mathematics & problem solving, writing, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, abstract reasoning, and humanities.
Scholarships
The Edutest format generally includes Reading Comprehension, Mathematics, Writing, and Numerical and Verbal Reasoning
Reading Comprehension:Multiple choice questions of reading comprehension requiring students to interpret meaning and sentence correction. Duration is 30 minutes.
Mathematics: Multiple choice questions including mathematical process and problem solving. Duration is 30 minutes.
Writing: Any of the following can be required: creative, descriptive, narrative, persuasive, informative. Duration of 15 minutes.
Numerical Reasoning: Multiple choice questions requiring students to reason using numbers. Duration 30 minutes.
Verbal Reasoning: Multiple choice questions requiring students to reason using language. Duration 30 minutes.
The AAS format generally includes Reading comprehension, Mathematics, Writing and General Abilities.
Humanities Comprehension: Multiple choice questions of reading comprehension requiring students to interpret meaning. Duration is 45 minutes.
Mathematics: Multiple choice questions including mathematical process and problem solving. Duration is 45 minutes.
Writing: Written expression that can be either creative or an opinion piece. Duration of 25 minutes.
General Abilities: Multiple choice questions including numerical, verbal and abstract reasoning. Duration 45 minutes.
The structure of the test changes according to age.
Primary Level
Test 1: Reading and viewing: Multiple choice questions of reading comprehension and interpretation of written and visual content. Duration is 30 minutes.
Test 2: Mathematics: Multiple choice questions including skill and problem solving. Duration is 30 minutes.
Test 3: Writing: Creative and opinion writing. Duration of 20 minutes each.
Secondary Level
The test is used at various levels, most commonly at years six (level 1) and eight (level 2), but also later years. (level 3).
Test 1: Written Expression: Duration 25 minutes
Test 2: Humanities: Multiple choice questions of reading comprehension and interpretation of poems, maps charts, diagrams and illustrations. Duration is 40 minutes.
Test 3: Mathematics: Multiple choice questions including problem solving with worded problems, including some questions involving reasoning. Duration is 30 minutes. Science questions are included in the mathematics component for level 2 and 3.
Test 4: Written Expression: Duration 25 minutes
Scholarships Intensive & Workshop Programs
Current programs and their venues will appear immediately below.
Holiday Intensive Scholarship Program
The Holiday Intensive Scholarship program is available at the venues listed below. Students accelerate the regular 8 week scholarship module by instead attending five 3 hour sessions during the holidays. All exam subjects are covered. See below.
Workshops
Workshops are available from time to time at a range of venues to study a specific subject such as exam mathematics, creative writing or persuasive writing.
INTENSIVE PROGRAM
| Program | Year Level | Venues |
|---|---|---|
| Holiday & Intensive Scholarship Program | 6 | Epping Doncaster Caroline Springs Balwyn Burwood East Footscray |
Brainworks Scholarship Curriculum
The Brainworks scholarship study materials used are easy to follow, appropriate for age but also offer the necessary challenge. Whilst students gain great confidence from our classes and that benefits their every day schooling, the curriculum that is taught is markedly different from the school curriculum. The questions that are posed to students require a strong understanding of fundamentals to then be able to confidently tackle various tasks. Therefore the curriculum at all levels is written to ascertain a student's conceptual understanding, to teach to the required level and then to apply those concepts to solve problems.
