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Scholarship and selection tests : a guide for students and parents / Rebecca Leech.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leech, Rebecca, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scholarships--Australia.
- Scholarships.
- Examinations--Study guides.
- Examinations.
- Academic achievement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (120 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Camberwell Victoria, Australia : ACER Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Scholarship and Selection Tests: A guide for students and parents aims to help students and parents to better understand scholarship and selection tests, so that students can develop their full potential and parents can support their children do their best when it counts. This second edition contains:.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Source acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Getting started
- What are scholarship and selection tests?
- Identifying high-achieving students
- Gifted and talented students
- Deciding to sit for a scholarship or selection test
- Choosing a school
- Registering for a scholarship or selection test
- Chapter 2 About the tests
- Answering multiple-choice questions
- Humanities and Reading Comprehension
- Mathematics and Science
- Abstract Reasoning
- Written Expression
- Chapter 3 Developing skills and abilities
- Practice tests and private tutoring
- Thinking
- Reading
- Writing
- Mathematics
- Chapter 4 Preparing for the day
- The week before the test
- The day of the test
- During the test
- After the test
- Chapter 5Now what?
- Managing expectations
- Understanding the meaning of results
- Requests for information
- Appendix 1: Description of specific scholarship tests
- ACER scholarship tests
- Appendix 2: Description of specific selection tests, select-entry schools and programs
- Selection tests
- Select-entry schools
- Select-entry programs
- References.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 24, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-74286-157-1
- 1-74286-319-1
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