year 7 naplan practice

NAPLAN is a national test used to test your child’s fundamental skills in writing, reading, and language practices: grammar, punctuation and spelling and numeracy tests in Years 3,5,7 and 9. With that in mind, it would be best to emphasize solid building numeracy and literacy skills for your child while planning for NAPLAN Practice Tests in Year 7. Numeracy and literacy skills are the fundamentals for the NAPLAN test, as all other aspects of learning rely on such skills. 

What Makes The NAPLAN Test Exam Unique 

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy is an annual assessment that tests all students in Years 3, 5, 7, and 9. Each is tested in reading, writing, language conventions—spelling, grammar and punctuations, and numeracy.. NAPLAN is a measure through which education authorities, schools, teachers, and parents determine if young Australians have the literacy and numeracy skills that provide the critical foundation for other learning and their rewarding and productive participation in the community. It makes it a compulsory test to take. 

What Does The NAPLAN Program Look Like?

Reading

The Reading Test is used to assess your child’s reading and comprehension skills of varying difficulty. This test could cover poem features, articles, narratives and essays with related questions. The questions are mostly inferential and vocabulary type questions for Year 7 students, though there would be a few literal type questions. 

Writing

NAPLAN mainly assesses your child’s ability to craft sophisticated writing and respond to the questions and stimulus. These questions direct your child to compare a copy of one of the following; informative, imaginative, or persuasive writing. 

Language  Conventions

The Language Conventions test will test your child’s punctuation, grammar and spelling 

Spelling: it’s a section that provides your child with two possibilities prompts. They may be asked to identify words incorrectly spelt and to correct them 

Punctuation: here, your child is assessed on his/her punctuation skills like full stops, commas, and question marks, among others. Some questions can be tricky whereby the student is asked to choose the sentence that is correctly or incorrectly punctuated.

Grammer: The grammar section would test a few key features of the language, including correct forms, functions, and tenses. 

Numeracy

Numeracy in NAPLAN tests your child’s proficiency in three key areas in mathematics; 

  • Measurements and Geometry
  • Statistics and probability
  • Algebra and numbers

With these three test areas, your child will be assessed on proper mathematical understanding, reasoning abilities, problem-solving and fluency. 

After understanding the NAPLAN program overview, here are tips to help your child prepare for the year 7 NAPLAN practice;

  • Getting access to past NAPLAN tests structure and layout
  • Giving your child practice from related online tests, such as Test Champs
  • Ask your child how they feel about NAPLAN
  • Planning on time management
  • Ensure your child gets enough sleep leading towards the test