NAPLANYear 5
NAPLAN Year 5 practice tests
Practise for Year 5 NAPLAN in the format your child will sit: timed reading, numeracy and language conventions on screen, and a typed writing task that comes back marked against ACARA's criteria.
The tests
Every Year 5 test
The real test adapts as your child answers, giving each student a different pathway. These papers do not: everyone sits the same one, at the difficulty of an average pathway. Everything else follows ACARA’s published shape. A free account includes 3 practice tests. A plan opens unlimited tests and the answers.
- 42 questions · 50 min
Numeracy
42 questions in 50 minutes across number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics and probability. Four options, no calculator.
Start the test - 52 questions · 45 min
Conventions of Language
52 questions in 45 minutes: spelling, then grammar and punctuation. Four options on the grammar half; the spelling half is typed. The real test also dictates most spelling words aloud, which this paper does not do yet. Every word here is shown, not read out.
Start the test - 39 questions · 50 min
Reading
39 questions in 50 minutes across six or seven texts: stories, a poem, information and persuasive writing.
Start the test - 1 prompt · 42 min · marked
Writing
One prompt, marked against ACARA’s ten published criteria. ACARA sets either a narrative or a persuasive task and does not say which in advance, so both are here.
Write a piece
What to expect
What is different about Year 5
Everything is on screen
All four tests are sat on a computer or tablet at Year 5, including writing, which is typed rather than handwritten.
No calculator
Year 5 numeracy is worked out without a calculator, so mental and written methods carry the whole test.
Often the year before scholarship tests
Many families sit scholarship or selective entry tests a year or so after Year 5 NAPLAN. The skills overlap, but the papers are not the same shape.
Past papers
Year 5 NAPLAN past papers
ACARA, the body that runs NAPLAN, has released real Year 5 papers from 2012 to 2016 only. They were written for the old paper test, and nothing later is released. Its demonstration site shows the on-screen format, but gives no answers.
Use them to see the style of question, then use timed papers with answers to practise.
- GuideNAPLAN Past Papers: What's Free, What's Missing, What to UseACARA publishes real NAPLAN papers for 2012 to 2016 only, and its demo site gives no answers. Here is what to use next, with timed Year 3 to 9 practice.
- GuideNAPLAN Numeracy vs Scholarship Test Maths: What's the Difference?How NAPLAN numeracy differs from scholarship exam maths, what each one is really checking, and which skills carry from one to the other.
Pricing
NAPLAN practice, on its own
Numeracy, reading, language conventions and the marked writing task. One payment covers 6 months, with no auto-renewal.
NAPLAN
$99+ GST for 6 months
What’s included
3 NAPLAN-style domains · 6 months access
- Numeracy — Years 3, 5, 7 and 9
- Conventions of Language — Years 3, 5, 7 and 9
- Reading — Years 3, 5, 7 and 9
- Answers and explanations on every NAPLAN-style paper they sit
- The writing task at every year, marked against the NAPLAN criteria
- Quick Revision and Favourites across papers
- Detailed progress by question type
- One payment, 6 months of access, no auto-renewal
That's $108.90 for NAPLAN, GST included, one payment in Australian dollars for 6 months of access. No auto-renewal; when the 6 months end, access stops unless you buy again.