NSW Selective High School Placement Test
Write your way into a selective school.
Coach Pen marks your child's writing against the selective rubric, then drills the exact skills holding the score back — one technique at a time.
- Marked
- Out of 25, six bands
- Two sets
- Set A (15) · Set B (10)
- Goal
- Band 6
What NSW Selective marks — and where you'll improve
Content & ideas
A focused, developed response to the prompt.
Form & organisation
Clear structure with strong openings and endings.
Style & vocabulary
Precise, ambitious word choice and a real voice.
Sentences
Varied, controlled sentence structure.
Punctuation & spelling
Accurate conventions under time pressure.
How Coach Pen gets you there
Mark it to the NSW Selective rubric
Paste your writing and get scored against the real criteria, with feedback on your own words — never vague.
Drill the weak spots
Every criterion holding you back links to short, stepped lessons that train exactly that skill until it sticks.
Rehearse under exam conditions
Sit full timed NSW Selective mock tests — prompt, plan, write, mark, revise — so test day feels familiar.
Who it's for: Year 5 & 6 students sitting the NSW selective test.
Start with one NSW Selective response. See your band.
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