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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Sydney Grammar Scholarship Test

You start with a booklet with questions about you and your personality, for example: what sports do you do? What noticeable sports achievements? Where have you been coaching and how long?

On the first paper, you have English, two essays, a cloze passage and reading comprehension.
The cloze passage is about the Aurora Borealis. You have to fill the gaps yourself.
Then you have to write about a natural wonder outside of Australia, possibly the world!
Then you have a reading comprehension about the museums in Bendigo.
The writing is a letter from you in the future.

On the second paper is basic mathematics.

On the third paper is also English.
You write a letter to the editor in response to another letter about the school curriculum.
You read and do the reading comprehension about a convict.
And lastly you write about being a convict at the time of the convict.