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PATYear 8

PAT Year 8 practice tests

PAT-style Maths and Reading for Year 8, adaptive like the tests secondary schools use for streaming and tracking growth. The report shows how each strand went, with every question explained.

Start Year 8 MathsStart Year 8 Reading

The tests

Both Year 8 tests

What to expect

What PAT looks like in Year 8

  • More algebra and data

    Algebra, ratios, negative numbers and statistics take a larger share, and more questions ask for two or three steps of working.

  • Longer, harder texts

    Stories, poems, information and opinion pieces, with more questions about what a text suggests and how the writer does it.

  • Timed, in three parts

    Maths is 42 questions in 40 minutes and reading 35 in 45, each in three parts. How one part goes sets the next easier or harder, as PAT Adaptive does.

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

Year 8 PAT 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.

By year

Other years

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