Applying for Year 9 entry in 2025
The examination for Year 9 entry in 2025 will be held on 15 June 2024. Applications to sit the entrance exam open on 5 February and close on 3 May 2024. For more information, please visit the Victorian Selective Entry High Schools website at: https://selectiveentry.acer.org/vic.
The following video illustrates the application process:
For more information please download the Information Pack.
Information about the examination
The SEHS entrance exam is a written assessment, designed to test ability rather than achievement and will include a focus on higher order thinking skills.
The required knowledge in any section will not exceed that found in the Year 8 curriculum.
The SEHS entrance exam will include:
- Reasoning in Reading, Mathematics
- General Ability – Verbal, Quantitative and Writing
It will contain multiple choice questions and written tasks.
Reasoning tasks in Reading and Mathematics assess a student’s ability to use their life and academic knowledge and skills and apply them to problems and tasks using the information provided in the task.
General ability tasks assess a student’s ability to learn in each of the tested areas by allowing the student to demonstrate their higher order thinking and problem-solving skills.
Sample questions are available at: https://selectiveentry.acer.org.
About selective entry high schools
Victorian Selective Entry High Schools provide for academically high-achieving students in years 9 to 12.
The Selective Entry Schools are recognised as providing a specialist environment that enables highly able students to more fully achieve extended intellectual and social growth. The schools work to provide an environment that enables young people to explore and shape their own aspirations and dispositions in a community of high peer trust and inclusivity. They promote and develop a high degree of student autonomy and agency that leads to broad student-initiated leadership and participation.
These schools are:
- Nossal High School (all genders) in Berwick.
- Suzanne Cory High School (all genders) in Werribee.
- The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School (girls only) in Melbourne.
- Melbourne High School (boys only) in South Yarra.
Advice from students:
The following videos depict student voice and their experience attending a selective entry high school:
Advice for selective entry high school students and prospective students.
Benefits and surprises of attending a selective entry high school
Selective Entry High School alumni revisit their experiences and share their memories.
More information
Contact the selective entry high schools directly if you have specific questions about their subjects and programs or about enrolling for Year 10 and above.
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