Use of a black pen to mark answers in the Selective High School Placement Test
For the first time this year students are going to use a black pen to mark their answers. Please make sure they bring two black pens, preferably not of the roller ball type which can smudge the paper. They are NOT to bring pencils, sharpeners, whiteout or rubbers. They will colour in the bubble to show the answer they want and will put an X over any answer that they want to change. If they decide to reuse an answer they have crossed out, they must circle the crossed-out answer bubble. This will all be demonstrated at the beginning of the test.
The marking computer will recognise any line where a student has made more than one mark on the paper. Any such line has to be presented to a human marker who will confirm which answer the student meant to keep.
Changing test centres
Please note that all test materials are personalised to specific students and are in the process of being delivered to test centres. It is generally not possible to change test centres at this late stage.
Late application for entry to Year 7 in 2015
Online application for Year 7 entry to selective high schools in 2015 is now closed. The only exception to this is where you are applying as part of the Rural and Remote Education Blueprint for Action to attend the virtual selective class provision (see below).
If there are extenuating circumstances which prevented you submitting the application before the deadline you may seek to submit a late application. You can only make a late application online.
Please do not submit another application for the same student if you have already completed one.
NOTE: WHERE APPLICATIONS FOR ALL SCHOOLS EXCEPT THOSE IN RURAL AND REMOTE AREAS ARE RECEIVED AFTER 26 FEBRUARY 2014, IT MAY NO LONGER BE POSSIBLE TO ALLOCATE CANDIDATES TO A TEST CENTRE.
Go to the Online application for entry to selective high schools in 2015.
Expansion of virtual selective class provision for Year 7 entry in 2015
Previously only students in rural and remote areas in Western New South Wales were eligible to participate in the virtual selective class provision. From 2014 parents from all other rural and remote areas in the State are eligible to apply for entry to the virtual selective class provision on behalf of their gifted and talented children.
Students successful for entry to this virtual class will be enrolled at a local government high school for the majority of their subjects but will be taught English, mathematics and science in a virtual environment together with other gifted and talented students in rural and remote areas through the creative use of communications technologies. This means that they can access a challenging academic program without leaving home and friends to do so.
Further details, including a list of high schools which can now be base schools for this provision are available on the Virtual Selective Class Provision page of the Unit's website.
Applications for entry to the virtual class provision must be made urgently as all candidates must take the Selective High School Placement Test on 13 March 2014.
Applications from parents in the expanded rural and remote eligibility areas who apply for this provision will not be considered to be late provided they apply before 28 February 2014.
If you have already applied for a selective high school on behalf of your child and now wish to change one of your choices to the virtual selective class provision, please do not complete another application but write directly to the High Performing Students Unit to make that change.