Primary Scholarship Program (PSP)

The Primary Scholarship Program (PSP) has been developed by ACER for use by those schools that wish to offer scholarships at upper primary levels.

The PSP consists of three papers, taken on the same day. The PSP can also be administered as part of entry placement procedures or as a scholarship test at any time convenient to the school wishing to use it.

The PSP is available as a cooperative main date test or as a non-cooperative alternate date test (schools select their own test date). Parents are advised to check the list of participating PSP schools to find out a school's test date.

When the PSP is conducted on the main date, candidates may register at other schools testing on the same date, sit the test once, and have their results passed onto each main date school they've registered with. If the test is conducted on another date, the candidate must sit the test on that date.

Candidates, through their parents, register to sit for the Primary Scholarship Program and make all their arrangements through the school to which they are applying for the scholarship. ACER produces the tests, supplies them to the schools, marks the papers, analyses and reports these results to the schools.

ACER does NOT report candidate results directly to parents.