Year 4 is the year your child builds the foundations for Selective success.
WEMT, Trial Tests, and timed writing demand entirely different skills from Year 4 school work. Three live online classes per week building English, Writing, Maths, and Thinking Skills before Year 5 begins.
Starting in Year 4 gives your child a 12 month head start over Year 5 beginners.
The NSW Selective test is May 2028 for current Year 4 students. Most families wait until Year 5 to begin serious preparation, then spend Term 1 of Year 5 just learning the format. By starting in Term 3 of Year 4, your child arrives at Year 5 already familiar with WEMT, Trial Test conditions, and the four core Selective skill areas.
Year 4 Selective Fundamentals covers everything systematically: English & Writing, Maths, and Thinking Skills. Three live classes per week across 20 weeks, plus weekly Trial Tests under exam conditions.
The gap between “talented but underprepared” and “genuinely capable” is built in Year 4. Students who walk into Year 5 already comfortable with Cambridge-style comprehension, the Scholarly Writing Formula, and Thinking Skills frameworks score higher and learn faster than those starting from scratch.
Sound familiar?
“They got top of the class but couldn’t finish a Trial Test”
Year 4 Selective is not Year 4 school. The questions are harder, the time pressure is real, and the format is unfamiliar. We teach the format explicitly: Cambridge-style comprehension, summary sentences, evaluation passages, cloze, and timed writing. Once your child knows the format, the marks come.
“They’re great at school Maths but struggle with Thinking Skills”
School Maths and Selective Thinking Skills are different subjects. Logical reasoning, spatial reasoning, verbal and non-verbal reasoning are all teachable, but they have to be taught. We teach pattern recognition, elimination strategies, and the time discipline that turn smart kids into Selective candidates.
“Their writing is fine for school but flat for exams”
Most Year 4 writing is descriptive. Selective writing is structured, persuasive, and analytical. The Scholarly Writing Formula teaches your child how to plan, structure, and execute creative and persuasive essays under time pressure. The same formula scales into Year 5 and Year 6.
“They’ve never sat a real Trial Test”
Trial Tests under exam conditions are the single fastest way to build exam stamina. Every Saturday, students sit a full Trial Test, then walk through detailed feedback and personalised strategies the same session. By the end of the semester, exam day feels like just another Saturday.
Trial tests alone don’t build skills. Doing more questions at a level your child can’t access doesn’t build the ability to access that level. The Semester program builds the foundations first, then drills them under exam conditions.
Three sessions per week. Every Selective skill area.
English & Writing
English: Summary sentences, evaluation passages, poetry, cloze passages, comparative analysis, fiction and non-fiction. Cambridge-style questions throughout. Writing: Students learn to adapt the Scholarly Writing Formula across creative and persuasive essays, the same framework that scales into Year 5 and Year 6 Selective.
Maths & Thinking Skills
Maths: Algebra, Geometry, Fractions, Decimals, Ratio and Proportion, Rate, Probability, and exam-style problem solving. Thinking Skills: Logical Reasoning, Problem Solving, Spatial Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, and Non-Verbal Reasoning. The full Selective Thinking Skills syllabus covered systematically.
Full Trial Tests & Personalised Analysis
Weekly full-length Trial Tests under real exam conditions. Detailed feedback and percentile rankings after every test. Error pattern analysis: which question types cost marks, which techniques were forgotten. Building exam stamina so the real exam day feels like just another Saturday session.
Materials, support, and everything your child needs
200+ Weekly Questions
Mirroring Selective exam style and complexity
Detailed Solutions
For most questions, with methodology explained
Weekly Trial Tests
Timed exam conditions every Saturday
Progress Reports
Percentile rankings across all subjects
7 Day Support
WhatsApp, WeChat, Scholarly Ask, phone
7am Club
Discipline, challenges, and awards
The preparation your child deserves.
20 weeks of live instruction across Term 3 and Term 4. Three classes per week. All Selective skill areas covered.
- 3 live classes per week (60 sessions total)
- English & Writing, Maths & Thinking Skills, Trial Test Review
- 200+ practice questions every week
- Weekly Trial Tests under exam conditions
- Detailed solutions and percentile rankings
- Detailed progress reports
- 7 day support across WhatsApp, WeChat, phone
- Recordings library, 2 week replay
- The 7am Club, challenges, and awards
Common Questions
The Selective race starts in Year 4.
Make sure your child has a head start. Term 3 begins July 20. Spaces are limited to keep class sizes small and feedback personalised.
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