Writing Workshop for Scholarship, Selective Entry & NAPLAN

The workshop covers four tracks: Scholarship & Selective Entry Persuasive Writing, Scholarship & Selective Entry Narrative Writing, NAPLAN Persuasive Writing, and NAPLAN Narrative Writing. Each track has 5 structured lessons covering skills from prompt analysis and story planning to writing powerful conclusions and crafting tension. Students also have access to over 800 practice prompts with AI-powered feedback.

After a writing exercise, students submit their work to the AI tutor. It marks the essay against the same criteria a real assessor uses - seven for scholarship and selective entry writing, or ten for NAPLAN - and gives a score for each. It points out grammar, spelling and punctuation to fix, spots tired clichés, comments on the opening, and shows an improved version to learn from. The feedback is warm and written in plain language, and it coaches the writing rather than writing the essay for the student. Each feedback report uses 1 AI credit.

Writing Workshop access is included with SubjectCoach Premium membership. Premium includes AI credits that can be used for feedback submissions, and each Writing Workshop report uses 1 AI credit. Included subscription credits reset when the subscription renews. If the account runs out, extra AI credit packs can be purchased for more submissions.

Absolutely. The NAPLAN tracks are specifically designed around the official NAPLAN marking criteria: Audience, Text Structure, Ideas, Persuasive Devices (or Character and Setting for narrative), Vocabulary, Cohesion, Paragraphing, Sentence Structure, Punctuation, and Spelling. The AI scores essays using the same criteria NAPLAN markers use, and provides band estimates.

Based on analysis of successful scholarship and selective entry writing, strong essays share common traits: they start with a strong hook (an anecdote, story, or intriguing fact), avoid clichés (like "I want to change the world"), focus on reflection and personal growth rather than just describing events, and strictly follow word count and formatting guidelines. Our AI specifically analyses these traits and gives actionable feedback to help students improve.

The Writing Workshop is included with Premium membership. Basic and Advanced members need to upgrade to Premium to unlock it. It is not sold as a separate product right now.

The workshop is designed for Australian Year 3 - 10 students (roughly ages 8-16) preparing for NAPLAN, scholarship and selective entry writing. NAPLAN writing begins in Year 3, so younger students can start early and build up. The language, examples and prompts are age-appropriate and aligned with the Australian Curriculum.

First pick the track that matches the exam - NAPLAN, or Scholarship & Selective Entry. Within each track, every prompt is tagged by how demanding it is: scholarship prompts are marked Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced, and NAPLAN prompts are marked Standard or Challenging. These describe the challenge of the prompt, not a year level. A younger student, or anyone new to a task, should start at the easier level and build up; a student close to an exam can push into the harder prompts. On the writing page, students also set their year level, so the word targets and the AI marking standard match their stage - a Year 3 and a Year 9 writing the same topic are each marked at their own level.

Students receive their feedback immediately after submitting a practice response, including scores, corrections, and a personalised rewrite example. The workshop currently focuses on guided practice and instant feedback rather than a separate parent or teacher progress dashboard.