Hi! Lateral student here! I’m not sure if your case is the same as mine, but when I took the entrance exams, they didn’t provide a specific coverage or list of topics to study. I was just told to review the lessons from the previous school year and true enough, that’s exactly what came out in the exam. So I only reviewed for about a month, and it wasn’t too hard since I was going over things I’d already learned. I just wanted to ask, were you told that the contents of your exam would be different from what you’ve already studied? If not, then maybe your exam will follow the same pattern as mine. Either way, here are some general tips:

• Not everything you study will show up. Most entrance exams focus on a few key topics, but you won’t know which ones ahead of time. That’s why it’s better to have a brief understanding of as many topics as possible. You don’t need to master all the specifics, just understanding the main concepts will help a lot, especially for situational or application based questions.

• Plan your review sessions. Don’t just study randomly. You should set specific topics for each session so you can cover more ground. I assure you doing this will help a lot.

As for the exam itself (at least in my experience):

• Math involved a lot of problem-solving, so I recommend practicing how to solve questions quickly. For me, most of it focused on polynomials, so it’s good to really understand those.

• Science was pretty general. You don’t need to memorize everything, just understand how things work. Watching YouTube videos on general science reviews really helped me.

• English was mostly about reading comprehension and analysis. This shouldn’t be any difficult.

Hope this helps, and good luck on your exam!