OC Mastery Holiday Class | Test Academy
2026 100%

of our OC Mastery students received an opportunity class place.

Our best OC result yet, well clear of any previous year. A smaller cohort meant more attention on every student, and every one of them got in.

OC Mastery Holiday ClassYear 3 and 4 Every OC question type, mastered over the holidays.

Year 3 and 4 students sitting timed OC mock tests at Test Academy Parramatta

Full days at our Parramatta centre. Every morning is timed mock tests across Mathematical Reasoning, Reading and Thinking Skills. Every afternoon is a teacher at the whiteboard working through the questions your child got wrong that morning, from a booklet printed for them at lunch.

Classes of eight. Three full days in person at Parramatta, all three OC sections every day, pizza lunch and a personalised booklet included.

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What happened for the last families.

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I am happy to share that my daughter got an opportunity class offer from Wollongong Public School and my son got an offer from a selective school (Karabar high school).
OC offer, Wollongong Noor Milon Google review
He really enjoyed doing the mock tests and found the platform easy to use, with good-quality questions. It helped him get familiar with the OC test format, question types and time management, while also building his confidence.
OC offer Kamini Garg Google review
So many places have qualified teachers but his teacher here has the fancy resume and can actually teach complex topics very clearly. Great culture and always feel updated as a parent.
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Dates and spots

Every intake runs in person at Parramatta, in the school holidays. A $10 deposit holds the spot.

Class times for this course are being finalised. Contact us and we will let you know the moment they are live.

Already with us? Re-enrol here.

How a day runs

Test all morning, taught all afternoon.

Each day covers all three parts of the OC test. Your child sits them under the clock first, so the afternoon can be spent on the exact questions that cost them marks rather than on a general lesson.

  • Reading40 minutes, 14 questions
  • Mathematical Reasoning40 minutes, 35 questions
  • Thinking Skills30 minutes, 30 questions
Morning, arrival
Log in and settle

Students take a computer in the testing lab and log into their Test Academy account. Everything they need is on the desk, so bring a pencil case, a water bottle and a snack.

The rest of the morning, timed
Mock tests across all three OC sections

Full length papers in Mathematical Reasoning, Reading and Thinking Skills, sat under exam conditions with the clock running. The questions are written fresh for each intake, so a student who has been with us before never sits the same paper twice.

For most Year 3 and 4 students this is the first time the OC test has felt real. By the third morning it does not.

Lunch
Pizza, and a booklet printed for each student

Lunch is provided. While the students eat, the teacher reads that morning's analytics: which questions went wrong most often, which ones ate the clock, and what keeps repeating for each child.

Then a booklet is printed for every student. It holds their own paper across the three sections, the answer they chose, the right one, the time they spent on each question, and a blank space underneath to work it again at home.

All afternoon
Interactive whiteboard review, taught from those booklets

The teacher works through the morning on the interactive whiteboard, one section at a time: how to read the question, which method is fastest, what the trap was, and how to keep the technique when the clock is running.

With eight students in the room, every child is asked about their own answers. Nobody sits quietly through a question they already understood.

Home time
The booklet goes home, and so does the feedback

Students keep the day's booklet with the blank working spaces still in it. The teacher is there at pickup, and the day's analytics and notes are on your parent dashboard that evening.

In the price

What the days come with.

One fee for the intake, paid once. Everything below is part of it.

Three full days in a small groupIn person at Parramatta, eight students to a room, all three OC sections on every one of them.
A printed booklet each dayTheir own paper, their own answers and their own timings, with space under every question to redo it. Kept by the student.
Pizza lunch every dayLunch is on us, so you only need to pack a snack and a water bottle.
Performance analyticsAccuracy and timing by section after every day, and a summary at the end of the course.
LearningHub practiceTargeted drills on any skill or question type in the three OC sections, so the weak spots found in class can be worked on at home.
The parent dashboardYour own login, with the notes the teacher leaves and every score as it lands.
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All the details

The OC test holiday intensive, explained properly.

For parents weighing up an opportunity class holiday course. Facts about the test come from the NSW Department of Education and are current as at September 2026.

What is in an OC mock test

The real Opportunity Class Placement Test is 110 minutes on one day, on a computer, with no calculator: Reading (40 minutes, 14 questions), Mathematical Reasoning (40 minutes, 35 questions) and Thinking Skills (30 minutes, 30 questions), all multiple choice and each a third of the result. There is no writing section. The department says the questions do not measure knowledge of the school curriculum and are pitched to challenge students already at the top of their grade, and half of all candidates land in the lowest band for a section with no pass or fail mark. That is why a child who is comfortable at school can come home from a first mock test rattled, and why sitting the thing three mornings in a row under real conditions, with the afternoon spent on what went wrong, changes how the May test feels. The department publishes free OC practice tests and the placement procedures, and does not endorse any course, ours included.

Which holidays, for which child

Applications open in early November of Year 3 and close in February; the test is in May of Year 4. The autumn break (7 to 17 April in 2026) is the last holiday before the test, so the April intake is the final rehearsal for a Year 4 student. For a Year 3 child, 12 to 18 months out, the July, September and January intakes are about exposure: meeting every question type, learning what 30 questions in 30 minutes feels like, and going back to the weekly class with a list of what to work on. The day is the same for both years; what changes is what the afternoon review dwells on. Outcomes for 2027 entry were released on 9 September 2026, and reserve list offers keep moving until the end of Term 1 in Year 6.

What a practice score can tell you

The department states that practice test results do not show how a student will perform and are not considered by selection committees, and that there are no minimum entry scores. So the number on a mock test is not the product here. The pattern is: which of the three sections loses marks, whether it is speed or understanding, and which question types keep coming back. The personalised booklet printed at lunch lays that out for each child, and it is what the afternoon is taught from. On the real test you will only ever see four bands per section (top 10 per cent, next 15 per cent, next 25 per cent, lowest 50 per cent), never a score, so learning your child's pattern now is worth more than any single mark.

How a day runs

Students arrive at the Parramatta centre and log in at the testing lab. The morning is timed tests across Reading, Mathematical Reasoning and Thinking Skills, written fresh for each intake. Lunch is pizza, provided, and while the students eat the tutors read the analytics and print each child a booklet covering the three sections: their answers, the right answers, the time spent on each question and space to rework it. The afternoon is an interactive whiteboard review of all three sections taught from those booklets, so the teaching lands on the marks that were actually lost that morning. Students take the booklets home and the teacher leaves notes on the parent dashboard. Some centres sell this as an OC trial test course; the difference here is that the review is most of the day, not an hour tacked on the end.

Price and practicalities

Dates, class size and the price for each intake sit on the tiles above; a $10 deposit holds the spot and comes off the fee, and a small materials fee for the printed booklets is shown before you pay. The course runs in person at Suite 107, 18-20 Ross Street, Parramatta, near the station, for families from Harris Park, Westmead, Granville, Rosehill, North Parramatta and across Western Sydney. Bring a pencil case, a water bottle and a mid-morning snack; computers, paper and lunch are provided. Between intakes the student keeps LearningHub practice and the parent dashboard. The weekly OC Mastery Class is the term-time version of the same method, and in 2026 every one of its students received an opportunity class place.

Three days that change the next term.

Small classes, real exam practice, and teachers who sat in your child's seat not long ago.

$10 today holds the spot. Everything else is on this page.

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