NAPLAN-style Practice Test 1 — Numeracy (Year 3)
A free NAPLAN (Years 3, 5, 7 and 9) practice paper for Year 3 in the format of the real test: 36 questions in 45 minutes, covering Section A — Number and algebra; Section B — Measurement and space; Section C — Statistics and probability. No calculator. Choose or type your answer. Try every question. Attempt it online — every question is marked instantly and the correct answers are shown at the end.
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Q1. Which number is four thousand, three hundred and six?
Q2. At the school fete, 38 sausages were sold in the morning and 25 were sold in the afternoon. How many sausages were sold altogether?
Q3. What is the value of the 7 in 2758?
Q4. Mia had 52 stickers. She gave 17 stickers to her friend. How many stickers does Mia have left?
Q5. There are 5 packets of muffins. Each packet has 6 muffins. How many muffins are there altogether?
Q6. 24 apples are shared equally into 4 baskets. How many apples are in each basket?
Q7. Which of these numbers is odd?
Q8. A number pattern starts 7, 11, 15, 19, … and keeps adding the same amount. What is the 7th number in the pattern?
Q9. Jai has these coins in his pocket. How much money does he have?
Q10. At the canteen a pie costs $3.50 and a juice costs $2.20. Sam buys one pie and one juice and pays with a $10 note. How much change should Sam get? $
Q11. Which shape has exactly one quarter shaded?
Q12. Ruby has 20 marbles. One quarter of her marbles are blue. How many blue marbles does Ruby have?
Q13. What number goes in the box to make this number sentence true?
14 + ☐ = 30
Q14. Leo has 3 bags. There are 8 oranges in each bag. Which number sentence shows how many oranges Leo has?
Q15. Which list shows these numbers in order from smallest to largest?
1089, 1809, 1890, 1098
Q16. What number is 100 more than 3950?
Q17. What time does this clock show?
Q18. The school cross-country race is on the second Thursday of May. What is the date of the race?
Answer: May
Q19. How long is the pencil?
Q20. How much water is in this jug?
Q21. Ella wants to find out how much water a bucket can hold. Which unit should she use?
Q22. These scales are balanced. 2 apples have the same mass as 8 blocks. How many blocks would balance 5 apples?
Q23. This object is a square-based pyramid. How many faces does it have?
Answer:
Q24. Which shape is a pentagon?
Q25. In which picture is the dashed line a line of symmetry?
Q26. This is a map of a school. Which place is in square D2?
Q27. Zoe starts at the Gate. She walks 3 squares north, then 2 squares east. Where is Zoe now?
Q28. Netball training starts at 3:45 pm and finishes at 5:15 pm. How long is training? minutes
Q29. The table shows the favourite sport of each student in class 3K. How many more students chose netball than swimming?
Answer:
Q30. Every student in 3K chose one sport. How many students are in 3K?
Q31. The picture graph shows the pets owned by Year 3 students. How many birds are there?
Q32. How many more dogs are there than fish?
Q33. The column graph shows the animals a class saw on a bush walk. Which animal was seen twice as many times as the wombats?
Q34. How many animals did the class see altogether on the bush walk?
Answer:
Q35. This spinner has 8 equal parts. Which colour is the arrow least likely to stop on?
Q36. A bag has 10 blue marbles and nothing else in it. Tom takes out one marble without looking. Which word best describes the chance that the marble is blue?
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