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PATMaths

PAT Maths practice tests

PAT-style Maths for Years 1 to 10: number, patterns and algebra, measurement, shape and space, and data and chance, in three parts that get easier or harder as your child answers.

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What it covers

The maths strands

PAT Maths groups its questions into number and algebra, measurement and space, and statistics and probability. The report shows each of these strands:

  • Number

    Place value, the four operations, fractions, decimals, percentages and money.

  • Patterns and algebra

    Number patterns, rules, missing numbers and, in later years, equations.

  • Measurement

    Length, area, volume, mass, time and reading scales.

  • Shape and space

    2D shapes and 3D objects, position, angles, symmetry and turns.

  • Data and chance

    Reading tables and graphs, and how likely something is.

Every year

PAT-style Maths, Years 1 to 10

How it works

Three parts that adapt, like PAT Adaptive

  1. Part one, at their year

    The first part is set at your child's school year.

  2. Part two, easier or harder

    How the first part went sets the second part a little easier or harder.

  3. Part three, closer still

    The last part moves again, so most of the test sits near what your child can do.

Getting about half right is normal on a test like this: it means the questions found your child’s level. The real test lets a child go back inside a part; ours locks each answer once your child moves on, because the next question depends on it.

The report

How each strand went

Every PAT-style test ends with a report by strand and every question explained. It gives no scale score or stanine: those belong to ACER’s own test and its national results.

ACER says children need no special preparation for PAT, and that is true: it measures what they already know. Practice here is for meeting the question style and the clock before the day, and for seeing which strands are strong and which need work.

Free guidePAT scores explainedWhat the scale score, achievement band, percentile and stanine on your child’s school report mean, in plain words.Read the guide

Pricing

PAT-style practice comes with the NAPLAN pack

One NAPLAN pack opens the answers and explanations on every PAT-style Maths and Reading test, Years 1 to 10, and on every NAPLAN paper. 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
  • PAT-style Maths and Reading, Years 1 to 10
  • Answers and explanations on every NAPLAN-style paper and PAT-style test 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.

Questions

PAT Maths questions

PAT, the Progressive Achievement Tests, are tests ACER makes for Australian schools. Most schools use PAT Maths and PAT Reading once a year, often in Term 4 or Term 1, to see what each child can do and how much they have grown since last year. There is nothing to pass.

PAT (Progressive Achievement Tests) is ACER's. Scholar Tests is not connected with ACER, and our practice tests are our own questions in the PAT style. ACER’s PAT pages