Most students compare selective entry maths to the concepts they have learned at school. They ask me questions about “How can these questions relate to that learning? Why isn’t it the same?” To tell you straight up, the selective entry maths test has questions from the academic content covered at school up to a year 8 to 8.5 level. The…
It isn’t as scary as it seems! Would you agree if I said “we fear the unknown”? As humans, we are afraid of things we haven’t seen, heard of, or that we can’t understand. The same logic is applicable to students in their learning: especially for selective entry, students are scared of the reasoning sections. Why? Because these sections aren’t…
