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Letters from a NSW Selective parent.

Short, honest notes for the parents going through this with us. One every Sunday, sometimes fortnightly.

I'm Hao. My son sat the NSW Selective High School Placement Test in 2025 and made it into a selective school. Along the way I learned a lot, mostly the hard way, about what helps and what doesn't. EurekaWrite is the tool I built afterwards. This newsletter is the other half: the bits that don't fit in a scoring rubric.

No ads. No tutoring upsells. No "this one trick" promises. Just notes from one Sydney parent to another. If a letter is useful, share it with a friend in the same boat.

Past letters

• Letter #1 · June 2026

  Waiting for NSW Selective results: what helps, what doesn't

  The 4 to 6 weeks between exam and result are, in some ways, harder than the prep. Three things that helped us, three things that did not, and what to do if you are bracing for a no.

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