Earn a scholarship at your dream school!
Integral’s premier preparation program supports students across the 3 pillars of scholarship success – academia, extracurricular, and character. Do you want to earn a scholarship to the top private schools across Melbourne?
What are scholarship schools?
Scholarship schools are large, heavily connected, and have an abundance of resources. The principal reason for their popularity is the opportunities they provide.
For many, the annual fees of at least $25,000 – and sometimes upwards of $40,000 – can be an impenetrable barrier to access. That’s where the scholarship exams come in.
Scholarship schools will give you the support of excellent teachers, a strong alumni network, and all the resources you need to build the foundations for a lifetime of success – however, it’s not an education that everyone can afford.
If you are ambitious, diligent and deserving, you can win a scholarship to surmount these barriers and attend your dream school – and Integral’s experts can help.
How the scholarship exams work
School Selection and Filling Applications
When applying for scholarship schools, you need to understand your goals. With the vast range of private schools across Melbourne, it’s a lost opportunity to only apply for one of these scholarship exams, but applying for all of them gives you less focus on each individual application. The sweet spot is between 3 and 5 applications.
Each school has its unique traits and specialties,just as you have your individual goals. Whether you wish to one day attend an international university, or to achieve sporting excellence alongside academic rigour, or to move into entrepreneurship, selecting the right school will make a difference.
Undertaking the Examination
The academic component of the assessment is rigorous. The exams that you will sit depend on the school that you apply for.
For some exams, at a Year 9 entrance level, you will need to know concepts all the way to a Year 11 level; for others, you will need to show an academic level of writing beyond that taught at schools.
Commonly, scholarship exams will incorporate both conceptual components with a heavy focus on critical thinking and applied cognitive processing skills. For these, you need to be prepared with a high problem-solving capacity and learning aptitude.
Character & Fitness Interview
Once you make it through the academic examination, the assessment becomes one of your character and fitness – your alignment to the needs and values of the school. Scholarship schools not only strive for academic excellence, but to create the leaders of tomorrow.
From leadership to communication to integrity, each school will look at you against a range of different values. This can often be the most challenging component given that you need to be both clear and concise in your message, yet also powerful and substantive in your delivery.
How Integral helps
With demand for scholarship places increasing, students are having to be more determined, involved and ambitious to access these schools. Competition is fierce, but our training program will have you putting your best self forward.
Formulate Goals & Your Individual Learning Plan
After our education specialists make an initial assessment, we will work with you to build your dream scholarship school list based on your short and long term goals.You’ll receive a personalised, individual learning plan to structure your next steps as the examination dates approach.
Focus on Conceptual Learning
The first step to performing and applying the best practices in your exams is understanding the concepts. At Integral, we don’t get you to rote learn techniques. Instead, we make sure you have a comprehensive understanding of ‘why’, enabling you to pull apart and connect disparate concepts, and apply them to your problem solving.
Incorporate Co-Curricular and Character Coaching
We understand and build on your extracurricular commitments and work with you to develop your individual portfolio to be balanced across your strengths. Our coaches will build your character throughout the preparation process.
Building a Champion Mindset
When it comes to a performance mentality, you need to be prepared and push through the challenges that arise. We instil our unique Champion Mindset into each one of our students through their everyday learning and exam preparation so that they’re always ready to grow, perform at their best, and achieve beyond their biggest challenges.
Exam Techniques and Exam Experience
Once building your conceptual foundations, we built your Mastery of the Mastermind Techniques which have been developed by Chris, Walter and the Exam team with wisdom past the power of time. You will get the opportunity to practice and hone your skills through real life exam experiences, and learn how to perform at your best in tight situations. Once the conceptual foundations have been laid down, it’s time to raise your mastery of the Mastermind techniques developed by Chris, Walter and the Integral team. Realistic exam experiences will give you the opportunity to practice and hone your skills in authentic exam conditions.
Interview Preparation
Once you make it through the exam, we will work with you to model your character and extracurricular portfolio. Having a great skill set and list of achievements is one thing, but to be able to effectively express this to a panel of interviewers is central to a great scholarship application.