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NAPLAN-style practice for Years 3, 5 and 7

Test facts checked on 3 October 2026.

Learnest gives your child fifteen to twenty minutes of maths, English and science a day, pitched at the skill they are on. When NAPLAN is coming, you can also set a timed NAPLAN-style paper in numeracy, reading or language conventions.

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Parent guide: NAPLAN.

What NAPLAN is

Who sits it
Students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9, every year.
What it tests
Writing, reading, conventions of language (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy.
How it runs
Online, and tailored: the questions a student sees later in a test depend on their answers earlier in it.
How long
Reading and numeracy take 45 minutes in Year 3, 50 in Year 5 and 65 in Years 7 and 9. Conventions of language takes 45 minutes in every year. Writing takes 40 minutes in Year 3 and 42 in the other years.

Sources: NAPLAN overview, tailored tests and test lengths on nap.edu.au, checked 3 October 2026.

When NAPLAN runs

NAPLAN 2027 runs from Wednesday 10 March to Monday 22 March 2027. In 2028 it runs from Wednesday 15 March to Monday 27 March.

Source: NAPLAN key dates on nap.edu.au, checked 3 October 2026.

How Learnest helps

  • Every day: fifteen to twenty minutes of the NSW syllabus. The app finds the exact skill your child is stuck on, teaches it again and checks it holds.
  • NAPLAN-style papers: from your parent page, set a timed paper in numeracy (30 questions), language conventions (35 questions) or reading (20 questions on whole passages). The clock matches the real test for your child's year: numeracy and reading run 45 minutes in Years 3 and 4, 50 in Years 5 and 6 and 65 in Years 7 and 8.
  • No help during a paper, as in the real test: no hints and no marks until the end. Then your child looks back over each question, what they wrote and the right answer. A paper changes no points and no daily work.
  • Years 3 to 8 on one plan: the Year 3, 5 and 7 tests, and the years between.

What Learnest does not do: it does not set or mark writing tasks, and its papers are not tailored the way NAPLAN online is. Each paper is fixed when it starts and runs from easier to harder questions.

Each year has a page with what your child works on and sample questions: Year 3, Year 5 and Year 7.

Sample questions

One question for each kind of paper, from Years 3, 5 and 7. They come from Learnest's own question bank. Try each one, then open the worked answer.

  1. Year 3 numeracy

    55 children go on a trip. Each car holds 6 children. How many cars are needed?

    Your child types the answer.

    See the worked answer

    Answer: 10

    6 × 9 = 54, and the last child still needs a ride, so 10 are needed.

  2. Year 3 language conventions

    Which sentence uses the past tense correctly?

    1. Option A: Leila brought her lunch to school.
    2. Option B: Leila bringed her lunch to school.
    3. Option C: Leila brang her lunch to school.
    4. Option D: Leila brings her lunch to school.
    See the worked answer

    Answer: A, Leila brought her lunch to school.

    Bring is irregular. Its past tense is brought, not bringed.

  3. Year 5 numeracy

    Which is the largest: 0.3, 1⁄4 or 28%?

    1. Option A: They are all equal
    2. Option B: 28%
    3. Option C: 1⁄4
    4. Option D: 0.3
    See the worked answer

    Answer: D, 0.3

    Change them all to percentages: 0.3 is 30%, 1⁄4 is 25%, and 28% stays 28%.

  4. Year 5 language conventions

    Which sentence punctuates the speech correctly?

    1. Option A: Mum said, Dinner is ready.
    2. Option B: "Mum said, Dinner is ready."
    3. Option C: Mum said, "dinner is ready."
    4. Option D: Mum said, "Dinner is ready."
    See the worked answer

    Answer: D, Mum said, "Dinner is ready."

    Quotation marks go around only the words someone says. The spoken words start with a capital letter.

  5. Year 7 numeracy

    What is 2 1⁄2 + 1 3⁄4 - 5⁄8?

    1. Option A: 39⁄8
    2. Option B: 34⁄8
    3. Option C: 5⁄8
    4. Option D: 29⁄8
    See the worked answer

    Answer: D, 29⁄8

    2 1⁄2 is 20⁄8 and 1 3⁄4 is 14⁄8, so the sum is 34/8. Taking 5⁄8 leaves 29⁄8, or 3 5/8.

Questions parents ask

When is NAPLAN in 2027?

From Wednesday 10 March to Monday 22 March 2027, for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. In 2028 it runs from 15 to 27 March.

What does a Learnest NAPLAN-style paper cover?

Numeracy (30 questions), language conventions (35 questions) or reading (20 questions on whole passages). Each paper is timed like the real test for your child's year, and you start it from your parent page.

Does Learnest practise NAPLAN writing?

No. Learnest does not set or mark writing tasks. Its NAPLAN-style papers cover numeracy, reading and language conventions.

Is Learnest part of NAPLAN?

No. Learnest is not affiliated with ACARA, NESA or the NSW Department of Education. NAPLAN-style means the papers follow the published shape and timing of the tests. Every question is Learnest's own.

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Learnest is not affiliated with ACARA, NESA, the NSW Department of Education or the Australian Maths Trust. Every question on this page is Learnest's own, written for practice. None comes from a past paper.