Black Friday: 25% off every pack

See packs

PATReading

PAT Reading practice tests

PAT-style Reading for Years 1 to 10: stories, poems, information and opinion texts, each with its own questions, in three parts that get easier or harder as your child answers.

Start PAT-style Reading

What it covers

The reading skills

PAT Reading asks four kinds of question about every text. The report shows each one:

  • Finding information

    Spotting a fact the text states, word for word or nearly.

  • Understanding what is said

    Linking, summing up or explaining what the text says, and what a word means there.

  • Reading between the lines

    Working out what the text suggests but does not say.

  • Thinking about the text

    Why the writer wrote it, how it is built, and the words they chose.

Every year

PAT-style Reading, 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 Reading 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