Both day students and boarders may apply for Scholarships at Barker
- boys entering Year 7 - day places only. Students must be in Year 6 at the time of the examination.
- boys and girls entering Year 10 - day and boarding places. Students must be in Year 9 at the time of the examination.
All Scholarships are subject to annual review but are normally tenable until Year 12, subject to continuing satisfactory performance and conduct.
The purpose of the scholarship program is to identify students of outstanding academic potential.
Students undertake four tests as part of this process. The first three parts are multiple choice formats.
1. An aptitude test which is predominately verbal and numeric in nature.
2. A reading comprehension task which focuses on inference, analysis and reasoning.
3. A mathematics task which asses reasoning and analytical skills.
4. A writing / essay task assessing the student's facility for written language
Different tests are targeted at different year levels and are designed to differentiate ability levels of higher performing students.
The School uses the test information, school reports, questionnaires and a variety of other criteria in its decisions regarding the awarding of scholarships.
Individual scholarship results are NOT available to parents.
Barker is pleased to offer the following Scholarships
Year 7 - Academic and Music scholarships for all candidates; E.W.Copeland Scholarship available only to current Year 6 Barker Junior School boys.
Year 10 - Academic and Music Scholarships open to all candidates; The Old Barker Association Scholarship open to any student who is a descendent of a former student of Barker; Boarding Scholarships are available to boys and girls entering Year 10, with preference given to country students.
The Barker Foundation Limited has, from time to time, the ability to offer a scholarship to a candidate who is ecommended to them by the Scholarship panel.
