About

Since 1999 Brainworks has assisted students with their preparation for competitive examinations including scholarship and selective school examinations and fundamental skills to assist their schoolwork. Prior to that it traded as Melbourne Scholarship Service and has been teaching students for scholarship and selective tests since 1995. Our experience at helping a large number of students for the past 16 years, over 4000, enables us to provide accurate assessment of their needs and effective guidance to successfully complete these tests.

The staff at Brainworks have many years of experience teaching within schools, tutoring for competitive tests and tutoring for remediation and extension. Staff also have a significant amount of experience with the NAPLAN (formerly AIM) test and VCE examinations, including writing, assessing and marking.

Teaching philosophy:

  • All students can achieve
  • Students have high and reasonable expectations placed on them
  • An appropriate amount of homework is encouraged
  • Time is used effectively and productively


Brainworks is able to achieve significant improvements for students within a reasonable amount of time.