Full-length, section-by-section practice for the NSW Selective High School Placement Test and the Victorian Selective Entry High School exam. Real exam length, real exam timing, questions templates written by real teachers with worked solutions on every answer.
Each drill below matches the official section format — same question count, same time limit, same number of answer options — so students rehearse the pacing decisions the real exam asks them to make.
The NSW Selective High School Placement Test is the state-administered exam the NSW Department of Education uses to allocate places at fully and partially selective public high schools. For Year 9 entry, students compete against their cohort across three marked sections plus a separate writing task.
The Victorian Selective Entry High School exam is the centralised entry test run by the four selective high schools: Melbourne High, Mac.Robertson Girls' High, Nossal High and Suzanne Cory High. Year 9 entry students sit Reading, Mathematics, Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning multiple-choice sections plus a writing task. SubjectCoach's VIC drills are in active content review and will appear on this page as each batch finishes.
Every drill uses the official question count and time limit — no short warm-ups, no topic sub-drills — so pacing decisions are rehearsed, not guessed.
Almost every question is independently reviewed by one of our reviewers and only released when it clears a six-gate quality pipeline. Ambiguous distractors don't make it to students.
Retakes pull a different set from the reviewed bank and parameterised templates regenerate visuals and numbers, so students learn the pattern — not the answer.
A deliberate, four-step loop — practise the way you'll actually sit the exam.
Choose NSW Reading, Mathematical Reasoning or Thinking Skills. VIC sections arrive next.
The countdown timer uses the official section length. Flag, skip and come back — exactly like the real exam.
The result page shows every stem, your answer, the correct answer, a worked explanation and a topic breakdown so you can see where to improve.
Retakes pull fresh items from the reviewed bank. Repeat until timing, accuracy and pattern recognition all click into place.
Quick answers about the NSW and VIC Year 9 selective tests and how SubjectCoach's practice works.
The NSW Selective High School Placement Test is a state-administered exam used to allocate places at fully selective and partially selective public high schools in New South Wales. Year 9 entry into selective and contains four sections: Reading, Mathematical Reasoning, Thinking Skills and Writing.
For Year 9 entry, the NSW Selective test runs roughly 2 hours 50 minutes of actual test time across four sections: Reading (45 minutes, 17 question sets / 38 marks), Mathematical Reasoning (40 minutes, 35 multiple-choice), Thinking Skills (40 minutes, 40 multiple-choice) and Writing (30 minutes). Students receive short breaks between sections.
Thinking Skills is a 40-question, 40-minute multiple-choice section that tests critical reasoning: identifying assumptions, strengthening and weakening arguments, spotting logical flaws, evaluating evidence, ordering and sequencing, deductive and inductive reasoning and mathematical-logic puzzles. It is not about subject knowledge — it is about how you reason.
NSW Year 9 Mathematical Reasoning covers the Australian Curriculum up to Year 8: number and operations, fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion, algebra and linear equations, geometry, measurement (perimeter, area, volume), statistics (mean, median, mode, charts) and probability. Calculators are not permitted and most items are multi-step word problems.
The Victorian SEHS exam is the centralised entry test used by the four Victorian selective high schools (Melbourne High, Mac.Robertson Girls', Nossal and Suzanne Cory). It contains four sections: Reading, Mathematics, Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning, plus a separate Writing task.
Effective preparation combines three things: practise full-length section drills at real exam timing (not short warm-ups), rehearse every question type the exam uses and review every wrong answer while the question is still fresh in your head. SubjectCoach's selective drills mirror the real section format exactly and mark every question with an explanation and worked solution so students build accuracy, speed and pattern recognition together.
No — full-length NSW Year 9 Selective drills (Reading, Mathematical Reasoning, Thinking Skills) are not free to try. You need a SubjectCoach account with valid subscription to sit a drill so your progress, answers and explanations can be saved to your result page.
SubjectCoach currently has 525 Mathematical Reasoning questions, 600 Thinking Skills questions and 255 Reading question sets in the live bank, all written and then independently reviewed by a second pass to catch ambiguous distractors and flawed visuals before students see them. Retakes pull different items each time and parameterised templates produce fresh-looking variants.
Yes. Every retake draws a fresh set of items from the reviewed question bank and parameterised templates regenerate visuals and numbers so you don't memorise the answer — you learn the pattern. Your answers, score and time used are saved for every attempt so you can track improvement.
VIC Year 9 drills (Reading, Mathematics, Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning) are in active development and will be added to this catalogue as each content batch finishes review. NSW Year 9 drills are live today.
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