NAPLANYear 9
NAPLAN Year 9 practice tests
Year 9 is the last NAPLAN your child sits. Practise all four tests here: timed reading, numeracy and language conventions, and a typed writing task that comes back marked.
The tests
Every Year 9 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.
- 48 questions · 65 min
Numeracy
48 questions in 65 minutes across number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics and probability. The first 8 are without a calculator; after that, a calculator is allowed.
Start the test - 52 questions · 45 min
Conventions of Language
52 questions in 45 minutes: spelling first, then grammar and punctuation. Four options on the grammar half; the spelling half is typed.
Start the test - 48 questions · 65 min
Reading
48 questions in 65 minutes across seven texts: stories, a poem, information and opinion pieces.
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 9
The last NAPLAN
Year 9 is the final sitting. The tests are the same shape as Year 7's, with harder texts and more algebra in the maths.
A calculator for most of numeracy
Year 9 numeracy opens with a short part where calculators are not allowed, then a calculator is allowed for the rest. Our Year 9 papers open the same way.
Writing is typed
All four tests are on screen, and the writing task is typed. Planning the piece before typing it is the habit that pays most.
Past papers
Year 9 NAPLAN past papers
ACARA, the body that runs NAPLAN, has released real Year 9 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.
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.