Year 9 maths, English and science practice for NSW
Learnest gives your Year 9 child up 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.
What your child works on in Year 9
- Maths
- Significant figures and scientific notation, wages, tax and net pay, simple interest and buying on credit, index laws, expanding brackets and binomial products, linear equations, gradient, midpoint and distance, graphing straight lines, the trigonometric ratios, surface area of prisms, similar figures, quartiles, bivariate data and independent events.
- English
- Spelling from word origins, harder suffix and prefix choices, commonly confused words, a word's meaning from context, connotation and register, sentence variety, agreement in long sentences, active and passive voice, theme and subtext, and point of view.
- Science
- Hypotheses, validity and reliability, trends and evaluating a conclusion, correlation and cause, energy efficiency, circuits and Ohm's law, homeostasis and disease, bonding and chemical formulas, balanced equations and rates of reaction, radioactivity, waves, sound and light, motion and Newton's laws, climate data and sustainability, and DNA, inheritance and evolution.
Years 9 and 10 share Stage 5 of the NSW syllabus, so Learnest works from one list of Stage 5 skills. The first day in each subject is a check that finds where your child is.
Tests around Year 9
- NAPLAN-style practice for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9Children sit NAPLAN in Year 9. From your parent page you can set a timed NAPLAN-style paper in numeracy, reading or language conventions.
- AMC-style maths competition practice for Years 3 to 10AMC Intermediate is for Years 9 and 10. On maths days the stretch question is problem solving.
Sample questions
Questions from Learnest's own Stage 5 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: index laws
a5 × a3 = a^k. What is k?
Your child types the answer.
See the worked answer
Answer: 8
The product has 5 factors of a and then 3 more, so the indices add. Here 5 + 3 = 8, so a5 × a3 = a8 and k = 8.
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Maths: simple interest
$2000 is invested at 4% per year simple interest for 3 years. How much interest does it earn?
Your child types the answer.
See the worked answer
Answer: $240.00
Simple interest is I = Prn: the principal times the yearly rate as a decimal times the time in years. Here $2000 × 0.04 = $80 a year, and $80 × 3 = $240.00.
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English: active and passive voice
A report must focus on the gate and leave out who opened it. Which sentence fits?
- Option A: The gate was left open overnight.
- Option B: Jack left the gate open overnight.
- Option C: The gate was left open overnight by Jack.
- Option D: Someone left the gate open.
See the worked answer
Answer: A, The gate was left open overnight.
A passive sentence makes the receiver, the gate, the subject, and it can leave the actor out altogether.
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Science: Ohm's law
A current of 2 A flows through a 6 Ω resistor. What is the voltage across the resistor, in volts?
Your child types the answer.
See the worked answer
Answer: 12
Ohm's law says V = IR. Multiply the current, 2 A, by the resistance, 6 Ω.
Questions parents ask
How long does Learnest take each day in Year 9?
Up 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 9?
Yes. Learnest works from the Stage 5 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.
Up 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.