ICP

Intensive Coaching Program

Preparation for the Year 9 Selective Entry High School exam — Melbourne High, Mac.Robertson Girls', Nossal High, Suzanne Cory High and John Monash Science School.

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The selective entry exam

All current Year 8 students who are Australian citizens or residents are eligible to register for the Year 9 selective entrance examination. Current Year 9 students can register for the Year 10 exam, whose date is set individually by each school.

The exam is conducted by ACER. Tests are not strictly curriculum-based, but do not go beyond the Year 8 syllabus.

Reading and Verbal Reasoning	55 minutes
Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning	60 minutes
Persuasive Writing	20 minutes
Creative Writing	20 minutes

Places available

Melbourne High School	308 boys
Mac.Robertson Girls' High	250 girls
Nossal High School	up to 200
Suzanne Cory High School	up to 200

Joining the program

Students currently in Years 7, 8 and 9 may attend. Before joining, every student sits the VIE entrance exam so they are placed in a group at their own level.

Results are sent by email, placing the student in a band from A to E. Classes run from the beginning of Term 2, commencing Saturday 2 May and Sunday 3 May 2026, at Clayton, Footscray or St Albans.

Entrance exam — when and where

Main sitting	Saturday 28 March 2026
Venue	Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne, Parkville
Getting there	By tram. Drop-off and pick-up via Gate 10, Grattan Street
Additional sittings	Sunday 26 April 2026 at St Albans — morning (9:30–12:30) or afternoon (1:30–4:30)

Being confirmed

The current site gives three different accounts of the Year 9 exam date: "confirmed" for Saturday 20 June 2026 on one page, "not yet published, we presume 20 June" on another, and "official" on the Vietnamese page. We are confirming which is correct.
The current site states the entrance exam runs "between 9.30PM and 12.30PM", which cannot be right. The intended time is almost certainly 9:30am to 12:30pm.