Academically gifted students heading into Year 5 next year will spend a large portion of their summer school holidays combing over practice questions in a bid to gain entry into selective high schools across NSW for 2022. Sample questions from the practice test require a high level of problem solving as well as critical thinking - and they are challenging to say the least. Mark Buckland, who runs Dymocks Tutoring in Parramatta, in Sydney's west, doesn't believe repeated tutoring ahead of the selective high school exam in March is the answer for every student. 'We believe at times coaching for the selective school test focuses on the wrong thing,' he said. 'Some students need tutoring as they are lagging, others just want to do better, they are always individual cases.'

Source: Daily Mail December 22, 2020 01:56 UTC