Year 6 maths, English and science practice for NSW
Learnest gives your Year 6 child fifteen to twenty minutes of maths, English and science a day, pitched at the skill they are on, and tells you that night which skill is slipping.
A$10 a month for one child, A$5 for each extra child.
Ten questions, marked as soon as you finish. No sign-up.
Parent guides: the selective test, times tables, spelling and reading comprehension.
Free practice papers, timed like the real section: selective-style thinking skills (40 questions in 40 minutes) and selective-style mathematical reasoning (35 questions in 40 minutes).
Free spelling practice: the Year 6 words, read aloud, grouped by pattern.
What your child works on in Year 6
- Maths
- Brackets and the order of operations, rate problems, adding fractions with related denominators, discounts and sale prices, negative numbers, area of triangles and composite shapes, volume, angles on a line and at a point, coordinates in all four quadrants, mode and range, and chance as a fraction.
- English
- Word roots and letter patterns from other languages, idiom, simile and metaphor, clauses that tell how, when or which one, modality, brackets and hyphens, text structure and connectives, character and imagery, and point of view, fact and opinion.
- Science
- Variables and fair tests, adaptations, how plants reproduce, food webs, body systems and exercise, dissolving, circuits and electrical safety, weather and climate, the solar system, and algorithms with branches and loops.
Years 5 and 6 share Stage 3 of the NSW syllabus, so Learnest works from one list of Stage 3 skills. The first day in each subject is a check, so a Year 6 child who is ready starts on the later skills.
Free tool: a times tables test your child can take now, with a grid of the facts to practise next.
Tests around Year 6
- Selective-style practice for Years 5 and 6Children sit the selective high school placement test in Year 6. From your parent page you can set timed selective-style papers.
- OC and selective test applications for 2028 entryThe last round's selective application and test dates, and where the next ones will appear.
- Thinking skills practice for Years 3 to 6On maths days the stretch question can be a thinking skills question in the style of the selective test.
- AMC-style maths competition practice for Years 3 to 8AMC Upper Primary is for Years 5 and 6.
Sample questions
Questions from Learnest's own Stage 3 question bank. Try each one, then open the worked answer.
Or hand the device over: let your child try seven questions on the real screens, about five minutes, no sign-up.
Pick an answer to check it. Try a wrong one too: you see the mistake that usually leads to it.
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Maths: discounts
A $40 cap and a $30 scarf are both 50% off. What is the total sale price, in dollars?
Your child types the answer.
See the worked answer
Answer: 35
Find each discount from its own price, take it off that price, then do what the question asks with the sale prices.
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Maths: rebuild the whole
A tank has had 1⁄4 of its water used, and 30 L is left. How many litres does the full tank hold?
Your child types the answer.
See the worked answer
Answer: 40
Match the amount you know to its fraction, find one part, then build the whole or the part the question asks for.
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English: complex sentences
Choose the joining word that makes this a complex sentence: Omar will go to training ___ he finishes his homework.
- Option A: and
- Option B: but
- Option C: yet
- Option D: if
See the worked answer
Answer: D, if
Words such as if, when and because start a dependent clause, which makes a complex sentence. And, but and yet join equal clauses.
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Science: a fair test
Ravi wants to test if the amount of water changes how tall bean plants grow. Which plan is fair?
- Option A: 50, 100 and 150 mL a day, with the same soil, pot and light
- Option B: 50, 100 and 150 mL a day, each plant at a different window
- Option C: 100 mL a day for every plant, with the same soil, pot and light
- Option D: 50, 100 and 150 mL a day, each plant in a different soil
See the worked answer
Answer: A, 50, 100 and 150 mL a day, with the same soil, pot and light
A fair plan changes only the amount of water and keeps soil, pot and light the same for every plant.
Questions parents ask
How long does Learnest take each day in Year 6?
Fifteen to twenty minutes. Each session starts with reviews, then new work at your child's level. In Settings you can make a child's sessions shorter or longer.
What do I get each night?
An email each school night naming the skill that slipped, at 9:30 pm or a time you pick, and a weekly email with the week and a note for the tutor. Your dashboard shows each child's day, their gaps and whether a fix has held.
Does it follow the NSW syllabus for Year 6?
Yes. Learnest works from the Stage 3 maths, English and science skills of the NSW syllabus. The first day in each subject is a check that finds your child's level, and the app plans each day from their answers.
What does it cost?
A$10 a month for one child and A$5 a month for each extra child. It starts with 14 days free: you add a card on Stripe's page and pay A$0 today. Cancel online before day 14 and you pay nothing.
Who runs Learnest?
Learnest is a small Australian business run by a sole trader, ABN 82 503 370 076. Email hello@learnest.com.au with any question about it.
Fifteen to twenty minutes a day, planned for your child.
Learnest finds the level, teaches the gap and tells you that night which skill is slipping.
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.