NAPLAN-style Practice Test 1 — Numeracy (Year 5)
A free NAPLAN (Years 3, 5, 7 and 9) practice paper for Year 5 in the format of the real test: 42 questions in 50 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 forty-six thousand and eight?
Q2. What is the value of the digit 7 in the number 372 519?
Q3. Round 48 652 to the nearest thousand.
Q4. A school raised $1 248 for a bushfire appeal on Monday and $2 675 on Tuesday. How much did it raise altogether?
Q5. Work out 4 005 − 1 678.
Q6. Mandarins are packed 24 to a box. How many mandarins are in 38 boxes?
Q7. Mia shares 156 stickers equally among 6 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?
Q8. A bus can carry 45 people. What is the smallest number of buses needed to take 200 people to a footy carnival?
Q9. Which number is a factor of 48 and a factor of 60?
Q10. Which list contains only multiples of 6?
Q11. What fraction of this grid is shaded?
Q12. Which list is in order from smallest to largest?
Q13. Jack has a $20 note. He buys a sandwich for $6.45 and a juice for $3.80. How much change, in dollars, should he get? dollars
Q14. There are 80 students in Year 5. 25% of them walk to school. How many students walk to school?
Q15. A number pattern starts 3, 7, 11, 15, ... and keeps adding the same amount. What is the 10th number in the pattern?
Q16. What number goes in the box to make this number sentence true?
7 × ☐ = 84 − 21
Q17. What is the value of 30 − 4 × 5 + 2 ?
Q18. Zoo entry costs $34 for each adult and $19 for each child. A family of 2 adults and 3 children pays with two $100 notes. How much change should they get?
Q19. A train leaves Central Station at 14:35. What is this time in 12-hour time?
Q20. Here is part of a bus timetable. How many minutes does the bus take to travel from Park Street to Harbour?
Answer: minutes
Q21. A jug holds 1.5 litres of water. How many 250 mL cups can be filled from the full jug?
Q22. Which length is the same as 3.2 km?
Q23. All the corners of this shape are right angles. What is the perimeter of the shape?
Answer: cm
Q24. A garden bed has the shape shown. All corners are right angles. What is the area of the garden bed?
Q25. This solid rectangular prism is made from identical small cubes, with no gaps inside. How many small cubes are used to make it?
Q26. Four angles are marked in red. Which angle is an obtuse angle?
Q27. The two marked angles sit on a straight line. What is the size of angle x?
Answer: degrees
Q28. Which 3D shape has 5 faces, 9 edges and 6 vertices?
Q29. This net is folded along the lines. Which 3D shape does it make?
Q30. Which single move takes Shape A onto Shape B?
Q31. This is a map of a school. What is in square C4?
Q32. The thick line shows the road from Hilltop to Bay. Use the scale to find how long the road is.
Answer: km
Q33. A movie starts at 7:40 pm and runs for 2 hours 35 minutes. What time does it finish, in 24-hour time?
Q34. The column graph shows the favourite sports of a Year 5 class. How many more students chose soccer than cricket?
Q35. Use the same column graph. How many students in the class voted altogether?
Answer: students
Q36. The picture graph shows how many library books Class 5K borrowed each day. How many books were borrowed on Friday?
Q37. The line graph shows the temperature in a desert town one day. Between which two times did the temperature rise the most?
Q38. The table shows two items sold at the school canteen. On which day were the most of these two items sold altogether?
Q39. A bag holds 3 red, 5 blue and 4 green marbles. Tom takes one marble without looking. What is the chance that it is blue?
Q40. The arrow on this spinner is spun once. The 8 parts are equal in size. What is the chance that the arrow does not land on yellow?
Q41. Priya rolls a normal six-sided dice 120 times. About how many times would you expect it to show a number greater than 4? times
Q42. Jake took a counter from a bag without looking, recorded its colour and put it back. He did this 40 times. His results were: red 21, blue 10, yellow 9. Which bag was he most likely using?
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