NAPLAN

NAPLAN Test!

By Matthew D and Stephanie

Year 5 started a massive test called NAPLAN that was done by children all around Australia. Some of the types of NAPLAN styles are language conventions, writing, reading and numeracy. A child has to complete NAPLAN if they are in years 3,5,7 and 9.

You  get your results later on in the year (September). You get 40 to 50 minutes to finish the test. You have to be silent during the test so the other children can have full concentration at all times.

The full NAPLAN takes a few days to finish because you have to do different tasks on different days. You have to either color in a bubble to pick your answer or you have to write the answer in the box. We also got sweets in every test we did :-).  They were waiting on our desk when we came in to the classroom.

 

WRITING

During writing we had to write an exposition or you can do a narrative about the topic that the you are given. It should be about 2-3 pages. You had 30 minutes to finish the test. We also got about 5 minutes for planning and about 5 minutes for editing.

LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS

During language conventions we needed to answer 51 questions. We are not allowed to say what the questions were, but a majority of students from our class thought it was pretty easy. We had 40 minutes to complete the test and every one answered all the questions.    

READING

During reading we needed to answer 38 questions. We had another book that we needed to look at the stories and then answer the questions. The was an easy one and every single student answered the questions. We had 50 minutes to finish the test.

NUMERACY

During numeracy we needed to answer 45 questions we had 40 minutes to finish the test. There were lots of different types of question e.g. The were graphs on who voted more on the topic, addition, subtraction, minus and division, there were some very hard questions and some super easy ones. We were very lucky to get some blank paper to do our working out on.

What did you think about NAPLAN?