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Years 3 – 10

PAT practice for New Zealand students

PAT-style Maths and Reading for every New Zealand year from Year 3 to Year 10. Each test adapts in three parts as your child answers, and the report shows how each strand went. The pack is priced in New Zealand dollars.

Find your child’s yearSee the price in NZ dollars

PAT in New Zealand

NZCER’s PATs, and what we practise

Most New Zealand schools use NZCER’s Progressive Achievement Tests to see where each child is and how they have grown. PAT Pāngarau covers Mathematics from Year 3 to Year 10, and PAT Pānui covers Reading Comprehension from Year 4. Schools sit them on paper or online, and NZCER marks them.

Our practice covers those two. The questions are our own, in the PAT style, so your child meets the kinds of question, the timing and the adaptive parts before the day.

Which test

Your child’s New Zealand year

New Zealand children start Year 1 a year earlier, so each New Zealand year opens our test for the Australian year one below. Pick your child’s year and open a subject.

Reading a PAT report from school? Our guide to PAT scores explains scale scores, stanines and percentiles in plain words; NZCER’s reports work the same way, with their own scales.

Questions parents ask

Are these NZCER's PAT tests?
No. In New Zealand, PAT is run by NZCER, and its tests are its own. Scholar Tests is not connected with NZCER or ACER. Our tests are our own questions in the PAT style, so the kinds of question and the way the test adapts will feel familiar.
Which of NZCER's PATs can my child practise here?
PAT Pāngarau (Mathematics) and PAT Pānui (Reading Comprehension). NZCER also runs PATs in Punctuation and Grammar, Reading Vocabulary, Listening Comprehension and Writing (PAT Tuhituhi), which are not covered here.
Why does the app show a different year?
New Zealand children start Year 1 a year earlier than Australian children, so each New Zealand year opens our test for the Australian year one below. A Year 5 student in New Zealand sits our Year 4 tests. The links on this page open the right one.
Will we get a PAT scale score or stanine?
No. NZCER reports a scale score (patm units for Mathematics, patc for Reading Comprehension), a stanine for your child's year and the curriculum progress it maps to. Those come only from NZCER's own tests. Our report shows how each strand went and every question explained.
Is it free?
A free account includes 3 practice tests. The pack (NZ$109 for 6 months) opens unlimited tests and the answers to every question.

PAT in New Zealand is NZCER’s. NZCER’s PAT pages

Pricing

3 free practice tests. Every answer explained for NZ$109.

A free account includes 3 practice tests. The pack opens unlimited PAT-style tests and shows your child the right answers and how to reach them. It is the same pack Australian families buy for NAPLAN practice, so those papers come with it too.

PAT-style pack

NZ$109

for 6 months

  • Answers and explanations on every PAT-style Maths and Reading test
  • Unlimited adaptive tests at every year
  • A report by strand after every test
  • One payment, 6 months of access, no auto-renewal

One payment in New Zealand dollars, with no GST added. No auto-renewal: when the 6 months end, access stops unless you buy again.