Why does Year 7 NAPLAN feel harder?

Partly the content, mostly the timing. It is sat early in the first year of high school, when a student is still adjusting to a completely new environment, and it tests primary-school skills that have not been used for a couple of months.

What does Year 7 numeracy cover?

Number and algebra, measurement, geometry, and statistics and probability — with more of the reasoning left to the student to work out. See the numeracy page for the topics broken down with sample questions.

Is it worth practising over the summer holidays?

A little, close to the end. Two or three sessions in the last fortnight of the break restores what has gone quiet without turning the holidays into schoolwork.

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Year 7 NAPLAN practice tests

Year 7 NAPLAN arrives a few weeks into high school, which is its real difficulty. A child is sitting a test that draws on six years of primary schooling while learning a new timetable, a new building and seven new teachers. The material is rarely the problem. What helps is having met the format before term started, so the test is the one familiar thing in a month where nothing else is.

The 3 sections, with questions you can try now

Each one explains what it asks of a child at this year level and gives you real questions from our papers with worked answers. No account needed.

Numeracy

Nineteen Year 7 numeracy papers, 399 questions, single-topic and full-length.

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Conventions of language

Twenty-three Year 7 papers, 628 questions.

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Reading

Six Year 7 reading papers, 123 questions.

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Writing is the fourth section — all freeIt has no answer key, so it is marked against ten criteria. Here is what they are.Open it →

Worth knowing at this level

The numeracy questions now reward knowing when an estimate is enough. Students who compute every question in full run out of time on the ones that actually needed the working.

Common questions

Why does Year 7 NAPLAN feel harder?: Partly the content, mostly the timing. It is sat early in the first year of high school, when a student is still adjusting to a completely new environment, and it tests primary-school skills that have not been used for a couple of months.
What does Year 7 numeracy cover?: Number and algebra, measurement, geometry, and statistics and probability — with more of the reasoning left to the student to work out. See the numeracy page for the topics broken down with sample questions.
Is it worth practising over the summer holidays?: A little, close to the end. Two or three sessions in the last fortnight of the break restores what has gone quiet without turning the holidays into schoolwork.

Practise the whole thing

A free account opens the full Year 7 papers — single-topic sets for working on one weakness at a time, and full-length papers for a timed run. Everything is marked, and every question has a worked solution.

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