Golden Key’s ‘Brain-It-On’ Adolescent Mental Development program was created to help local students meet their learning needs as well as the educational standards of South Australia. It is a series of classes designed specifically to help students from years 3-6 to broaden their cognitive training and improve independent thinking skills.

Taking into account the differences in English skills and age, the classes are divided into two levels, Level 1 (Basic) and Level 2 (Advanced). This is designed to address the various kinds of problems faced by young students at different stages in their education whilst also laying down a solid foundation to increase their independent thinking capabilities.

Golden Key Education have established the Golden Key teaching team in order to help students cultivate important skills such as logical thinking, creative thinking, focus, memory recall, communication, calculation and rapid reading levels. Integrating the South Australian Education Departments ‘Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority’ (ACARA) standards for years 3-7, the team have designed 4 exciting classes filled with fun activities as well as a course booklet for students. Also included are mathematics and English lessons in accordance to the South Australian syllabus as well as UMAT (Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test) related training. Students will be able to have an enjoyable learning experience whilst also improving their skills and emotional intelligence.

The Brain-It-On program has prepared 4 different classes for both difficulty levels. These four lessons include the Detective Lessons, Patterns & Problem-Solving lessons, Pictorial Memory Lessons and Attention & Time Management Lessons. These lessons include fun and exciting activities like puzzle solving, role playing, memory recall and ‘truth or lie’ games, with a focus on logical & deductive thinking, reading and writing as well as memory association and other activities designed to nurture and encourage learning.

The Detective Lesson portion will present to students a hypothetical scenario, allowing them to take on the role of a detective and improve their focus, observational skills and logical analysis abilities in a fun and exciting setting. Different scenarios will provide different experiences related to observation and reasoning skills. Student will also experience different levels of logical analysis through the presentation of information in a variety of ways to help promote intellectual development as well as logical analysis methods. This is particularly useful for students participating in the AMC Maths Competition during the logical analysis portion of the competition.

The Patterns & Problem-Solving segment of the course combines local ACER Scholarship mathematics courses with the Standard Curriculum to help children develop mathematical pattern recognition and analysis capabilities. This not only benefits students by improving their all-round learning capabilities but also helps students attempting ACER scholarships to attain excellent results.

The Pictorial Memory section will provide students with English paragraphs, flow charts and other different English text and image materials. Through reading and capturing key information within a short period of time and strengthening associative memory to improve rapid memory recall, students will improve their written and logical analysis skills whilst laying a strong foundation for students attempting ACER scholarships and future UMAT tests.

The Truth and Lies section teaches students through games and the use of descriptive language to improve their language analysis and communication skills as well as improving their emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills. This will help students in their future development in both society and the workplace.

The Brain-It-On course will provide a booklet to students to aid them in their study. The booklet each student receives will be based on the educational background of the students and which class they attend (Level 1 or Level 2). After participating in the fun class activities, students can use the booklet to help them review and summarize each lesson.

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The ACER Scholarship Tests consist of a series of academic ability tests used to select students for the award of a scholarship. Independent schools around Australia choose a testing date which best suits their school needs.

Schools can choose to take part in a cooperative program where results are shared and the applicant sits at their first preference school. Preference order is very important as some schools will only consider students who list their school as the first preference - check the schools' websites for further details. Alternatively, schools can choose to hold the test on a date of their choice where applicants must sit at the school on that date.

The tests require students to demonstrate a range of skills such as the ability to interpret, infer, deduce and think critically. They are not curriculum based and do not test the ability to retrieve learned knowledge.

Applicant results are usually made available to parents online. For alternative date schools this will be approximately 3 weeks after the test date, or on a nominated date for the cooperative schools.

The Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) was introduced in Australia in 1978 as the first Australia-wide mathematics competition for students. It has since spread internationally, with students in more than 30 countries attempting the same problems. In recent years the competition has been available in two formats (online and paper), allowing even more students to participate worldwide.

The AMC is for students of all standards. Students are asked to solve 30 problems in 60 minutes (Years 3–6) or 75 minutes (Years 7–12). The problems are designed to test mathematical thinking and questions are designed so that they can be answered just as quickly without a calculator as with one. The problems get more difficult through the competition, so that at the end they are challenging to the most gifted students. Students of all standards will make progress through the problems, and also be challenged along the way.

It’s a 50-minute, multiple choice competition testing critical thinking and problem-solving skills, not just factual recall, so you can find out what’s really going on inside their heads. Questions are set in real-life, contemporary contexts, making them relatable (and interesting).

Competition questions in the Big Science Competition are aligned with the Australian Curriculum – Science. • Science inquiry skills: including identifying and formulating questions and hypotheses for testing; making predictions, collecting, analysing and evaluating data and drawing valid conclusions; interpreting and communicating information through appropriate representations and media.

• Science as a human endeavour: including the development of science knowledge and processes across cultures and over time; its application in areas of human endeavour; its significance in informing personal and societal decisions and actions; and the influence society has on science.

• Science understanding: core concepts relating to Biological, Chemical, Earth and Space Sciences, and Physical Sciences that are designated at each stage.

Golden Key provides specialized elite courses for students of both primary school year 3-7 and secondary school year 8-9. Our teaching objective is aimed at enhancing course content in school and providing specialized teaching contents ahead of school based on specific requirements of students. By maintaining interests at the same time, we can enable students to acquire knowledge of higher level, and improve the competitiveness of students in both examination and ACER scholarship competition.

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UMAT is developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) on behalf of the UMAT Consortium universities. The test is used specifically to assist with the selection of students into the medicine, dentistry and health science degree programs at undergraduate level at the universities listed on this website. UMAT is designed to assess general attributes and abilities gained through prior experience and learning; specifically, the acquisition of skills in critical thinking and problem solving, understanding people and abstract non-verbal reasoning. These abilities are considered important to the study, and later practice, of professions in the health sciences. UMAT is an aptitude test; it is not a personality or IQ test. The test is not curriculum-based and presupposes no particular subjects at secondary level. UMAT does not require any knowledge or skills in mathematics or sciences, or in any other area of the curriculum. It is designed to complement your academic results, not to replicate them.

There are a million paths to your future. By giving you the opportunity to explore what interests you the most, AP courses help you find and pursue your unique direction.

There are more than 30 AP courses, each one of which connects directly to a wide variety of college majors and careers. For example, if you’re thinking about law enforcement, did you know that it might help to take AP Psychology? Or that, if you want to be a sociologist, AP Statistics could be a good first step?

AP courses also help you transform the subjects you’re enthusiastic about into a fulfilling future. If you’re into studying languages, taking one in AP could help you in everything from a college major in languages to a career in Anthropology, Ethnic Studies, or Fashion Design.

First administered in 1926, the SAT was created to democratize access to higher education for all students and to ensure that all students had a chance to go to college. Today, the SAT serves as both a measure of students’ college readiness and as a valid and reliable predictor of college outcomes.

When used in combination with high school GPA, SAT scores are shown to be the best predictor of a student’s likelihood to succeed in college. The SAT is among the most rigorously researched and designed tests in the world. It provides colleges and universities with valuable information about college readiness.

The SAT is part of the SAT Suite of Assessments and over 1.6 million students take the SAT annually. It is accepted or required at nearly all four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. Developed with input from high school teachers, college faculty, and enrollment professionals, the SAT covers core content areas deemed essential for success in college—critical reading, mathematics, and writing.

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