NWEA MAP Growth practice, by grade

MAP Growth practice tests

MAP Growth is the test many US schools give in the fall, winter and spring to see how a child is growing in math, reading and language. It is made by NWEA. It has no time limit, and it adapts: a right answer brings a harder question, a miss brings an easier one. Some districts also use MAP scores when they choose children for gifted programs.

Our MAP Growth practice tests come in Math, Reading and Language, each with 43 questions like the real test and no clock. Math covers the four goal areas of Math 2-5 in the same proportions. Reading has stories, poems, plays and nonfiction to read, and word questions, across the three goal areas of Reading 2-5. Language asks about writing, grammar and usage, and capitals, punctuation and spelling, the three goal areas of Language 2+. Math and Reading adapt like the real test: a right answer brings a harder question and a miss an easier one, and the report shows the Level your child reached in each goal area. Each answer is final once your child moves on, as on test day. Every test is new, and the score shows straight away.

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Questions in the NWEA MAP Growth style

Written by us in the style of the published NWEA MAP Growth question types.

Grade 2: arrays and adding
Which addition matches the rows of balloons in the array?
1. A2 + 2
2. B3 + 3
3. C3 + 2
4. D3 + 3 + 3
Grade 3: comparing fractions
Which fraction is the greatest?
1. A4/6
2. B3/6
3. C1/6
4. D5/6
Grade 4: reading a table
How many members joined Astronomy altogether over the two weeks?
1. A18
2. B62
3. C44
4. D72
Grade 5: two patterns
Pattern A starts at 0 and follows the rule "add 6." Pattern B starts at 0 and follows the rule "add 24." Which statement about the matching numbers in the two patterns is true?
1. AEach number in Pattern B is 5 times the matching number in Pattern A.
2. BEach number in Pattern A is 4 times the matching number in Pattern B.
3. CEach number in Pattern B is 4 times the matching number in Pattern A.
4. DEach number in Pattern B is 18 more than the matching number in Pattern A.
Grade 3 Reading: the big idea of a poem
Puddle Day
After the rain, the sidewalk is a map of tiny lakes. I jump in one. It splashes up and shivers when it shakes. One puddle holds a piece of sky, one holds a passing cloud, one holds a robin taking a bath and singing very loud. I float a leaf across a lake, a boat without a mast. I blow, and off it goes to sea, so slowly, then so fast! I lean above the biggest one. A face looks up at me, with muddy boots and messy hair, as happy as can be. My mother calls me in at last. My socks are soaking through. But if the rain comes back tomorrow, I'll know just what to do.
Which idea best fits the poem?
1. ARain spoils a day of play.
2. BWet socks are the worst part of the day.
3. CRobins sing only after it rains.
4. DA rainy day can be full of fun and wonder.
Grade 5 Reading: figurative language
A blanket of snow covered the whole town.
What does the phrase in bold mean?
1. Aa quilt made of snow
2. Ba thick layer of snow over everything
3. Ca pile of warm blankets
4. Da little bit of snow
Grade 4 Language: the right linking word
The Pony Express carried mail across the West faster than ever before. Riders galloped from Missouri to California in about ten days. ______, the Pony Express ran for only about eighteen months. The new telegraph could send messages across the country in minutes. Even so, the Pony Express became a famous part of the history of the West.
Which word or phrase best fills the blank?
1. AFirst
2. BFinally
3. CHowever
4. DFor instance

The test

Levels by grade

Level	Grades	Questions	Time	What is on it
Math 2-5	Grades 2 to 5	43	No time limit	Number and operations, measurement and data, operations and algebraic thinking, and geometry.
Reading 2-5	Grades 2 to 5	43	No time limit	Literary text (stories, poems and plays), informational text (science, history and how-to texts), and vocabulary.
Language 2+	Grades 2 to 5	43	No time limit	Writing (topic sentences, details, order and linking words), grammar and usage, and capitals, punctuation and spelling.

The 43 questions and the goal areas of Math 2-5, Reading 2-5 and Language 2+, with their share of each test, are NWEA's published figures. NWEA does not publish which questions a test draws within a goal area, so that choice is ours, from the Common Core standards for each grade, and every reading passage and paragraph is written by us.

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Pricing

Sitting is free. The answers are US$99.

Every practice test is free to sit, as often as you like. The US bundle shows your child what they got right, the right answers and how to reach them, on every US test we offer.

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for 6 months

Everything in the gifted pack, the private school pack, the math contest pack and the MAP Growth pack
CogAT, NNAT and OLSAT, for gifted and talented programs
ISEE and SSAT, for private school entry
Math contest practice, Grades 1 to 8
MAP Growth practice, by grade and subject

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Questions

What parents ask

Are these real MAP Growth questions?: No. MAP Growth questions are secure. We write our own questions and reading passages from the Common Core standards MAP Growth follows, with the same length, goal areas and kinds of question.
Is this test adaptive like the real one?: Yes, for Math and Reading. Like MAP Growth, our test picks each question from your child's last answer: a right answer brings a harder one and a miss an easier one, from two grades below to two grades above. The report shows the Level your child reached, overall and in each goal area. Language is a fixed test for now, and Math and Reading also come as a fixed Practice test that reaches a grade below and a grade above.
Which test should my child practice?: The ones for their grade now. Most children in Grades 2 to 5 sit Math 2-5 and Reading 2-5, and some schools also give Language 2+. Some Grade 2 children sit the K-2 tests instead. Your child's school can tell you which.
What is on the Reading test?: Eight texts to read, each with three to five questions: stories, poems and plays, and science, history and how-to texts. Questions on word meanings come in between. Some questions ask for two answers. NWEA's Reading 2-5 has three goal areas, literary text, informational text and vocabulary, and each gets about a third of our test.
What is on the Language test?: Most writing questions show a short paragraph and ask for the best topic sentence, linking word or ending, or the sentence that does not belong. The rest ask which word or sentence is correct: grammar and usage, and capitals, punctuation and spelling. Each of the three gets about a third of the test, as on NWEA's Language 2+, which some score reports call Language Usage. Every question has four choices.
Is it free?: Sitting is free: make a free account and your child can sit as many MAP tests as you like. The US bundle (US$99 for six months) covers MAP Growth and every other US test we offer, and shows which questions were right, the right answers and a worked solution or explanation for each.
Does a practice score predict my child's RIT score?: No. A RIT score comes from NWEA's own questions and scale, which only the real test can give. Our Level is our own scale: the grade times 3, plus 1, 2 or 3 for the start, middle or end of that grade, so Level 14 means questions from the middle of Grade 4. The report shows it for each goal area, with the number of questions answered correctly.

NWEA, MAP and MAP Growth are registered trademarks of HMH Education Company. Scholar Tests is not affiliated with or endorsed by NWEA, HMH or any school district. Our practice questions are written by us from the Common Core standards that MAP Growth's goal areas follow; they are not real MAP Growth questions, and a practice score is not a RIT score.