1. A line passes through the points in this table — x: 0, 1, 2 → y: 5, 7, 9. Which is its rule?
Free Year 7 NAPLAN practice tests
Year 7 is the first NAPLAN after the move to high school, and the first with a calculator — but not for the whole paper. The opening section is non-calculator; the rest allows one. Children who practise only with a calculator to hand get caught by the first eight questions.
Last updated: 5 October 2026
The Year 7 papers
- Numeracy — 48 questions, 65 minutes; questions 1 to 8 without a calculator, then the on-screen calculator from question 9, after which the first eight can't be changed; an on-screen ruler and protractor throughout
- Reading — 48 questions, 65 minutes, across around nine text sets
- Conventions of Language — 52 questions, 45 minutes: 25 spelling, 27 grammar and punctuation
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More on each paper: Numeracy · Reading · Conventions of Language
What changes from Year 5
Algebra becomes real: pronumerals, substitution, simple equations, and patterns expressed as rules rather than pictures. Integers go negative. Ratio, proportion and percentage arrive together and account for a lot of the middle of the paper. Geometry moves to angle reasoning with parallel lines and to properties of shapes rather than naming them. Statistics moves to mean, median and range, and to reading a graph critically rather than just reading it.
Where Year 7 children most often lose marks: percentage increase and decrease, negative number arithmetic under time pressure, and angle problems that need a reason rather than a measurement.
What Year 7 Reading asks
Longer and more varied texts — informative, imaginative and persuasive in roughly equal measure — with questions about purpose, audience and technique, not just content. Text pairs and comparison questions become common.
After the paper
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What to do with a weak result
Year 7 is where "I get it in class" stops being enough. If the marks went on percentages, ratio or negative numbers, that's ordinary content and drilling works. If they went on the non-calculator opening, the problem is arithmetic fluency rather than understanding — short daily bursts fix it faster than long sessions. If they went on angle questions that ask for a reason, practise saying the reason out loud: the marks are for the justification, not the number.
Sample questions
Try each one first, then open the answer and worked solution under it.
NAPLAN Year 7 Numeracy
Answer and worked solution
Correct answer: D
The y values climb by 2 each step — gradient 2.
At x = 0, y = 5 — intercept 5.
Rule: y = 2x + 5. Check x = 2: 2(2) + 5 = 9. ✓
y = 2x + 5.
NAPLAN Year 7 Conventions of Language
2.
The wind blank on the barn roof spun all night.
Press play and listen for the missing word.
The recording plays when your child practises.
Answer and worked solution
Correct answer: vane
Vain means having too high an opinion of yourself.
A vane is the blade that turns to show wind direction.
The sentence is about the barn roof, so it needs vane.
'vane' is the correct word.
NAPLAN Year 7 Numeracy
3. Match each expression to its FULLY factorised form. Two of the forms are not used.
Question 3 — match each one to its pair
Answer and worked solution
Correct answer:
- 15x + 10 → 5(3x + 2)
- 8x − 12 → 4(2x − 3)
- 9x + 6 → 3(3x + 2)
15x + 10: the highest common factor is 5, so 15x + 10 = 5(3x + 2).
8x − 12: the highest common factor is 4, so 8x − 12 = 4(2x − 3). 9x + 6: it is 3, so 9x + 6 = 3(3x + 2).
2(4x − 6) equals 8x − 12 but is not fully factorised; 5(3x + 10) expands to 15x + 50.
15x + 10 → 5(3x + 2) · 8x − 12 → 4(2x − 3) · 9x + 6 → 3(3x + 2)
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