Build the EduTest foundations
before the exam year. Foundations.
EduTest sits behind scholarship and entrance rounds at independent schools across Australia. Five short, fast papers, each one unforgiving of hesitation. EduTest Foundations builds the speed and accuracy early, two classes a week, so your child arrives at the exam year with the pace already trained rather than scrambling to find it.
EduTest rewards speed and accuracy, and speed has to be built.
EduTest is used for scholarship and entrance selection at independent schools across Australia. It runs as five short papers: reading comprehension, written expression, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning and mathematics. Most sections give roughly 30 questions in 30 minutes, and the written expression task is a 15-minute sprint. The content is curriculum-aligned, which lulls families into thinking it can be revised quickly. The difficulty is not the content, it is doing it correctly at pace, and pace is trained over terms.
Wednesday covers the literacy side: reading comprehension, written expression and verbal reasoning. Friday covers the quantitative side: numerical reasoning and mathematics. Every EduTest paper is taught explicitly, with timed conditions introduced gradually so that speed becomes natural rather than panicked.
The four gaps we see every exam year.
By the time families arrive in the exam year, the same gaps show up again and again. Foundations exists to close them while there is still time.
Reading Comprehension
Accurate readers who are simply too slow. EduTest gives roughly a minute per question, so comprehension has to be fast and first-pass correct, with no time for a second read.
Written Expression
A 15-minute writing task where one weak paragraph sinks the score. Students need a frame they can execute automatically, not one they have to invent under pressure.
Verbal Reasoning
Synonyms, antonyms, analogies and odd-one-out tasks that rest entirely on vocabulary breadth. Vocabulary cannot be crammed, it is accumulated through months of reading and deliberate exposure.
Numerical Reasoning & Maths
Students who know the maths but lose marks to the clock. Mental fluency, estimation and knowing when to skip a question are the difference between a good score and a scholarship score.
The trap with EduTest is that it looks familiar. The content is curriculum-aligned, so families assume a short preparation block will do it. Then the paper starts and the clock takes over. Foundations exists to build the pace, the vocabulary and the automatic writing frame in the year before, so the exam year is about polish rather than panic.
Two classes. Every component covered.
One class on the literacy and reasoning side, one on the quantitative side. Each 60 minutes, each with a clear remit, running every week of the course.
Reading Comprehension, Written Expression & Verbal Reasoning
One hour on the three literacy papers. Comprehension trained for speed as well as accuracy, a repeatable 15-minute writing frame, and the vocabulary work that verbal reasoning quietly depends on.
- Reading comprehension under pace, first-pass accuracy at roughly a minute per question
- Question-type recognition, literal, inferential and vocabulary-in-context items
- The 15-minute writing frame, rehearsed until it runs automatically
- Marked writing every week, with model responses and improvement targets
- Verbal reasoning, synonyms, antonyms, analogies and odd-one-out
- Vocabulary in context, built through reading rather than word lists
Numerical Reasoning & Maths
One hour on the two quantitative papers. Mathematical fluency built to exam pace, plus the numerical reasoning patterns that sit outside the school curriculum entirely.
- Numerical reasoning, number patterns, sequences and quantitative logic
- Mental maths fluency, the speed that buys thinking time later in the paper
- Curriculum mathematics, extended to EduTest difficulty and pacing
- Word problems, translating language into operations quickly and correctly
- Data and graph interpretation, reading tables and charts under time pressure
- Pacing strategy, when to commit, when to estimate and when to skip
Everything in. No upsells.
Two live classes a week, all materials, all feedback, all reports.
Top-ATAR graduate tutors
Every class taught live by tutors with elite academic records and specific training in EduTest question shapes and marking criteria.
Marked writing every week
Written expression comes back annotated with specific coaching on structure, vocabulary and control, plus model responses to work from.
Progress reports with percentile rankings
See exactly where your child sits against the wider Scholarly cohort, component by component, so you know what is strong and what needs work.
Weekly homework with feedback
Targeted practice aligned to each week’s focus, tracked through the Scholarly Learning Platform so nothing quietly slips.
Catch-up recordings
Every class has a catch-up recording. If your child misses a session or wants to revisit a concept, they can watch the lesson back.
7-day Success Coach support
Questions answered outside class time via WhatsApp, WeChat and Scholarly Ask, with a dedicated coach monitoring homework and progress.
What the week looks like
Weekly homework aligned with each class, tracked through the Scholarly Learning Platform. Catch-up recordings available for every session. 7-day Success Coach support via WhatsApp and WeChat for questions outside class time.
Foundations built early, not crammed late.
20 sessions across Term 4 2026. Two classes a week, 10 weeks, every component taught explicitly. Semester enrolment (Term 4 2026 plus Term 1 2027) is also available for families who want the longer runway.
- 20 live online sessions (2 per week)
- Wednesday 5-6pm and Friday 5-6pm
- All five EduTest components covered explicitly
- Marked writing every week with model responses
- Weekly homework with detailed feedback
- Progress reports with percentile rankings
- Catch-up recordings for every class
- 7-day Success Coach support
- Term 1 2027 continuation available
Common Questions
Build the pace before the clock matters.
EduTest punishes hesitation, and speed is built over terms rather than weeks. Two classes a week across all five papers, taught in the year before the pressure arrives.