Unique scholarship tests, managed end-to-end.
We’ll find students with exceptional higher-order thinking skills for your scholarship programs, and handle every part of the process for you.
Our scholarship tests are both unique and broad for every student, giving you the most accurate insights designed to help you identify academic talent with future potential.
Identify strong students with our quality scholarship tests
Uncover the highest performers with the most potential
Discern between the brightest critical thinkers among your applicants and confidently select the best.
Test students on a
wide variety of skills
Set unique,
non-commercial tests
“Tara Anglican School for Girls has developed a strong and effective partnership with Academic Assessment Services and their staff since 2015. This partnership extends across various aspects of the school’s assessment process, but for enrolments specifically, the team have ensured that our school and the enrolment team are able to navigate peak scholarships seasons with ease.”
Marion Malouf
Tara Anglican School For Girls
Tested skills and subjects for our Year 3 to 11 scholarship exams
Writing
Learning areas tested:
- Genre/structure
- Arguments
- Vocabulary
- Sentence structure and cohesion
- Syntax/tense
- Punctuation
- Spelling
Reading comprehension
Learning areas tested:
- Remembering info
- Locating details
- Analysing text
- Evaluating info
- Deriving/drawing conclusions
- Combining info
Mathematics
Learning areas tested:
- Numbers
- Measurements
- Space and geometry
- Data
- Patterns and algebra
- Working mathematically
Reasoning
Learning areas tested:
- Verbal reasoning
- Mathematical reasoning
- Figural reasoning
- Spatial reasoning
Key details for our flexible, fully managed scholarship tests
Exam length
Each scholarship exam is 40-50 minutes long and includes two test sessions with a 20-minute recess break in-between.
The exception is the written expression exam, which is 25-30 minutes.
Test format & location
You can choose to complete the test on paper or through our user-friendly online platform.
Most schools deliver paper tests onsite and online tests at students’ homes, but you’re free to select whichever location works best for you.
Question types
Most tests are multiple-choice, offering four or five response options per question.
The only exception is the written expression test, which requires a long-form response.
Invigilation
Both paper and online tests are supervised either by our invigilation team or by your own staff, if you prefer.
For online tests completed at students’ homes, we use webcam monitoring to ensure exam integrity.
Exam dates
You can run your scholarship tests on whichever dates work best for your school.
This includes when you choose to open registrations for students.
Results
We typically deliver results 10 days after the last day of testing.
Results are provided through your online reporting system, and we’ll guide you through it to ensure you understand all key reports.
Fully managed school scholarship tests
Have families self enrol through a dedicated portal, branded with your school logo and customised for different scholarship areas.
Leave all student and parent communications for the testing program to us, including payment collection.
Reduce absentees by sending automated email and SMS reminders for test day. We also remind students to finish their half-completed applications.
Provide parents with a landing page that promotes your school’s scholarship program.
Customise the information and documents collected from registering students. Paper-free process!
Easily track student entries, requested documents and test results in your school’s portal.
Our step-by-step process for scholarship testing
Here’s how our scholarship testing process works from start to finish:
Registration and communication
We’ll set up the scholarship registration site, where families can submit and pay for their application and upload all supporting documentation.
Test setup and delivery
We’ll arrange testing days, including parent/student communications (with reminders).
We’ll then deliver and invigilate your scholarship tests for you or provide clear instructions on how to do so.
Marking
We’ll mark every scholarship test against its success criteria.
This includes automated marking for multiple choice tests, and manual marking for Writing and other question types.
Reporting
We’ll populate your reporting system and provide you with one-on-one training on how to understand the results and get additional insights.
Our unique scholarship exams are created by experienced educators
Our scholarship assessments are created by professionals with extensive experience in K-12 education. Their background and knowledge helps us maintain the highest quality for our scholarship tests, which go through a rigorous validation process before being set for students.
Question taken from one of our online practice tests for Year 10
What do our scholarship tests look like?
Our question types vary depending on the subject but are usually multiple-choice.
We can deliver them online or paper-based – whichever you prefer. You can see an example of how online tests look on the left.
Our scholarship assessments tend to run for around 50 minutes.
Reports that simplify the selection process
We provide automatic composite rankings for students as well as granular data to help you select the very best students for your scholarships.
Clearly identify top-tier students
See raw scores, stanines, automatic rankings and more for every student. Select the very best for further consideration.
Precisely analyse student results
Delve into the specifics of the results for students or the full cohort, to inform the selection process. Refine and analyse with essential data such as skill area.
Compare results to previous years
Directly compare students’ scholarship results from year-to-year, to identify trends and possible improvements to your scholarship program.
Send automated reports to parents
Generate automated reports to parents that break down their child’s performance and keep them in the loop.
Frequently asked questions
Our pricing varies depending on volume and the services you need. Please contact us to chat about your requirements.
We created a full comparison table that shows the biggest differences between our scholarship and GSAM tests.
You can find on our school tests page.
Our tests are strictly confidential and not able to be purchased separately by schools. We also refresh the assessments annually, so students are highly unlikely to have sat our tests before.
You can export both the results data to CSV as well as student/parent personal information, such as their email addresses for mail merges.
We adhere to strict data privacy laws for student information, which is never used for purposes other than our scholarship tests, and never shared.
For students who complete our scholarship tests at their homes, academic honesty is achieved in two ways:
- Our locked-down exam application, which students must download and complete the tests on. This prevents them from accessing any other websites or apps during their scholarship tests.
- Our proctoring team, who monitor students as they complete their tests and flag any instances of academic misconduct.
These are the full device requirements:
| Category | Windows | Mac |
| Supported devices | • Laptop / Notebook • Desktop Note: Chromebooks, iPads or other tablet devices are not supported. | • Laptop / Notebook • Desktop Note: Chromebooks, iPads or other tablet devices are not supported. |
| Supported operating systems | • Version 10 • Version 11 | • macOS 10.14 Mojave • macOS 10.15 Catalina • macOS 11 Big Sur • macOS 12 Monterey • macOS 13 Ventura • macOS 14 Sonoma |
| Supported web browsers | • Google Chrome (recommended) • Microsoft Edge • Firefox | • Google Chrome (recommended) • Microsoft Edge |
| Minimum hardware requirements | • A minimum screen resolution of 1,024 px width × 768 px height • Internet connection with minimum bandwidth of 512 kbps • Web camera | • A minimum screen resolution of 1,024 px width × 768 px height • Internet connection with minimum bandwidth of 512 kbps • Web camera |
We ask that any special accommodations (like the need for extra equipment or accessibility adjustments) are provided to us ahead of exam day, so that we can plan for them and ensure that every student has a fair, equitable opportunity to complete their scholarship tests.
You can set clear guidelines around what to do for late arrivals or absentees, which our test supervisors will follow on exam day. This includes whether you want us to arrange make-up tests for students.
Yes – we provide online scholarship practice tests, which allow students to become familiar with the tested skills and question style of our exams.
Get in touch to learn more about our unique scholarship testing services and how we can help you discover the very best candidates for your scholarship program.