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Guys, I did math ext 1 around 30 years ago and now my kid is doing it as an accelerant at year 10. I feel her teacher could not give her in depth coverage of the topics. Half of the normal students at year 11 seem to be better than her at coping with the subject due to having one extra year. So...

I have been developing a good program of work and delivery method to help primary school students achieve OC and selective school placement. Now I have the program running with excellent results with near 100% selective school placement and high percentage of OC placement. As I do not drive to...

Hi Guys, I wonder if you detect anything strange about your marks? When I looked at school rankings and results from students I sort of know, things look different from previous years. Some schools fell badly in ranking and some rose unexpectedly. However, even schools that fell in ranking still...

I recently look at science texts and syllabus as my daughter is in year 9. I start to see something is wrong as my daughter does not know many things that I learned long ago since year 6 and 7. She told me that these things were not taught at HS. I then checked with another friend whose son is...

Guys, my daughter needs to have a bit of practice on tough math papers for grade 8 and 9. She is in grade 8 doing an advanced math program covering year 8-9 and a bit of year 10 at her school. Any one with math papers from top schools like James Ruse, Sydney Boys, Sydney Grammar and the like? I...

I know similar topic has been discussed here about why selective school students need tutoring to compete or to survive. I seek opinions from those who have been doing high school recently with and without coaching to help my child. I know that coaching can save a lot of time for students who...

Guys, I had a look at New Century Math textbook year 9. I found introduction of linear equations and how to solve a simple word problem using a single linear equation. I reckon this is too basic. When I was young, I learned about linear equation at year 6 and already solve system of 2 linear...

It's time of the year for NSW OC test again. As I want to help to level the playing field for the young kids, I have a quality set of maths trials and GA trials for SS and OC tests on my website completely free for all the kids to use. Many have secured OC and SS placement. I supposed some of...

Many expensive private schools offer academic scholarships via this ACER testing program. How does it work? I notice that they have 2 writing, 1 reading and 1 maths. Does that mean it favours English to the extreme? Do tehy just add the scores or they have a formula to work out the profile mark...

Hey guys, I cameup with this simple formula to calculate OC/SS profile mark. I think it is fair. I tested on one kid I know and got the result only 0.25 marks off the real profile mark. I wonder if you guys could try on your own SS marks (in the past) to see whether it works. (Sum of all test...

I got this from the SMH www.smh.com.au - Study secrets from Mr 100 per cent I still beleive that if you talk to a few of them you would get a figure of 1000% of JR students coming from a few coaching colleges in Sydney. Still, it looks so interesting. Charging such a low fee. Having a...

I am sure most students going to PreUni would attend this trial test. They actually offer the trial test at least 3 times each year and mimick the profile mark that is similar to the NSW selective school test. I would like to have your opinions on this test. Here is what I gathered from people...

I found out that YourTutor is a web-based chat tutoring service that is offered FREE by so many libraries. They signed up with this companyto provide free tutoring to their library members (and children). This is one-on-one tutoring. It is too good to be true! Any one has tried it? I suppose...

Guys, any one out there know of this allegation?

A couple of weeks ago I went to a bookshp and happened to pick up a set of test samples for general mathematics. I was quite surprised by the content. It looked rather easy. So today I went to the BOS site and downloaded the past papers for HSC general math 2006 - 2008. I have not worked through...

Guys, I am greatly disturbed by the language of Australia reporters that I want you guys to comment on this problem that I see all the time on newspapers. It seems to suggest that many reporters don't know how to do basic calculations like multiplication, division and fractions. When they...

Guys, I found this grade 6 or perhaps early grade 7 ratio problem. I'd like you guys to have a go and tell me how you feel. I am worried that mathematics teaching in NSW no longer has the punch to get through difficult problems. There seems to be too much rote-learning. I found that this little...

After my kid got into OC class I started to realise why selective highschool students said they could not survive without tutoring colleges. It's not because tutoring colleges teach any better. It is more like about teachers at selective schools don't want to teach. They prefer giving work to...

It's near selective school test time. I have set up 3 trial math tests to help selective school candidates. I have got a good number of active accounts using my math test site to see how they perform against the best in Australia. If you have young siblings trying for selective school this...

It's near selective school test time. I have set up 3 trial math tests to help selective school candidates. I have got a good number of active accounts using my math test site to see how they perform against the best in Australia. If you have young siblings trying for selective school this...