The ACER Scholarship Tests are used across Australia to identify academically able sstudents for the award of a scholarship. The tests are designed to rank applicants, finely differentiating the top end of performance

Applicants are required to demonstrate a range of skills such as the ability to interpret, infer, deduce, and think critically. The tests are not curriculum based and do not test the ability to retrieve learned knowledge, nor are they diagnostic

Components of the ACER Scholarship Test

Component	Minutes	Questions	Type
Written Expression	25 mins	1	Written response
Humanities (Comprehension and Interpretation)	40 mins	40 - 45	Multiple choice
Mathematics	40 mins	32 - 36	Multiple choice
Written Expression II	25 mins	1	Written Response