Scholarship tests
Independent schools award scholarships on a sit-down entrance test set by one of a handful of national test boards. The paper your child sits is set by that board, not by the school and not by the state — which is why the same practice works wherever you are.
Which test
Find your school, find the board
The board sets the paper, so the board is the only thing you need to know before you start practising. Type the school your child is sitting for and this says which board tests for it.
Sourced from ACER and EduTest — the boards’ own published school lists.
Where it runs
Which state are you in?
The paper is set by the test board, not by the state, so the practice is the same wherever your child sits it. What differs is which schools use which board, which is what the search above is for.
Victoria
ACER, AAS and EduTest formats
St Kevin's · Kilvington · Melbourne Grammar · Caulfield Grammar
New South Wales
ACER, AAS and EduTest formats
Queensland
ACER, AAS and EduTest formats
Western Australia
ACER, AAS and EduTest formats
South Australia
ACER, AAS and EduTest formats
Tasmania
ACER, AAS and EduTest formats
Australian Capital Territory
ACER, AAS and EduTest formats
Northern Territory
ACER, AAS and EduTest formats
What’s covered
Every board, every section
ACER
Mathematics
34 questions in 40 minutes — about 70 seconds each. Four options, no calculator.
Humanities
42 questions in 40 minutes across five texts, one of them a poem.
Mathematics
16 questions in 20 minutes — the mathematics half of the Level 3 quantitative paper. Four options, no calculator. Science reasoning is coming.
Humanities
Level 3 Humanities for Year 11 entry — not ready yet.
AAS
Mathematics
40 questions in 40 minutes. Up to five options, no calculator.
General Reasoning
60 questions in 40 minutes — verbal, figural and spatial. Fast: about 40 seconds each.
Reading Comprehension
40 questions in 40 minutes — six texts, including poetry and advertising.
Question counts are estimates. AAS publishes a 40–50 minute limit for each test and no per-section question count, so the counts above — and the mix within each section — come from sample papers rather than from AAS.
EduTest
Mathematics
40 questions in 30 minutes — about 45 seconds each. Up to five options.
Verbal Reasoning
60 questions in 30 minutes — about 30 seconds each. Up to five options.
Numerical Reasoning
50 questions in 30 minutes — about 35 seconds each. Up to five options, including "none of these".
Reading Comprehension
40 questions in 30 minutes across reading passages and sentence questions — spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Question counts are estimates. EduTest publishes 40–60 questions per test with no per-section breakdown, so the counts above — and the mix within each section — come from sample papers rather than from EduTest.
Every section above is free to sit. See the list.
Pricing
The tests are free. The answers come with a plan.
Every paper is free to sit — built the moment they start it, same format, same difficulty, questions they have never seen — and the score comes back straight away. A plan unlocks what happens after Finish: which questions were missed, the correct answer and worked solution for each, and revision built from the papers they sit.
ACER Scholarship
$129+ GST for 6 months
What’s included
3 exam-style sections · 92 questions · 6 months access
- Mathematics — 34 questions, 40 min
- Humanities — 42 questions, 40 min
- Mathematics — 16 questions, 20 min
- Answers, explanations and worked solutions on every paper they sit
- Quick Revision and Favourites across papers, plus the printable formula sheet
- Detailed progress by question type, difficulty and pacing
- One payment, 6 months of access, no auto-renewal
That's $141.90 for one scholarship board and $328.90 for all 3 scholarship boards, GST included, one payment in Australian dollars for 6 months of access. No auto-renewal; when the 6 months end, access stops unless you buy again.