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Year 7 maths, English and science practice for NSW

Follows Stage 4 of the NSW syllabus.

Learnest gives your Year 7 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.

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A$10 a month for one child, A$5 for each extra child.

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Ten questions, marked as soon as you finish. No sign-up.

Parent guide: NAPLAN.

What your child works on in Year 7

Maths
Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing integers, equivalent fractions, operations with fractions and decimals, fractions, decimals and percentages, angles on parallel lines and in triangles, area, substituting into expressions, collecting like terms and one-step equations.
English
Commonly misspelt words, suffix rules, near synonyms, working out a word from a literary excerpt, main and subordinate clauses, agreement, apostrophes and speech punctuation, and retrieving and inferring from a passage.
Science
Variables and data, forces and weight, cells and classification keys, mixtures and how to separate them, density, body systems, ecosystems and populations, atoms and the periodic table, energy, physical and chemical change, and plate tectonics, rocks and fossils.

Years 7 and 8 share Stage 4 of the NSW syllabus, so Learnest works from one list of Stage 4 skills. The first day in each subject is a check that finds where your child is.

Tests around Year 7

Sample questions

Questions from Learnest's own Stage 4 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.

  1. Maths: one-step equations

    Solve x + 6 = 20. What is x?

    Your child types the answer.

    See the worked answer

    Answer: 14

    Adding 6 was done to x, so undo it by subtracting 6 from both sides. 20 - 6 is 14.

  2. Maths: multiply integers

    What is -12 × 3?

    Your child types the answer.

    See the worked answer

    Answer: -36

    Multiply the numbers without their signs first: 12 × 3 is 36. The signs are different, so the answer is negative.

  3. English: a word in context

    In this line, what does 'dismal' mean? 'The dismal weather, grey and wet all week, kept everyone inside.'

    1. Option A: gloomy and dull
    2. Option B: bright and sunny
    3. Option C: hot and dry
    4. Option D: windy and wild
    See the worked answer

    Answer: A, gloomy and dull

    The weather was 'grey and wet all week' and kept everyone inside, so 'dismal' means gloomy and dull.

  4. Science: variables

    Zara heats water to different temperatures and times how long a sugar cube takes to dissolve. What is the independent variable?

    1. Option A: The water temperature
    2. Option B: The time to dissolve
    3. Option C: The amount of sugar
    4. Option D: The cup used each time
    See the worked answer

    Answer: A, The water temperature

    The independent variable is the one thing changed on purpose. Zara changes the water temperature.

Questions parents ask

How long does Learnest take each day in Year 7?

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 7?

Yes. Learnest works from the Stage 4 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.

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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.