Free Edutest scholarship practice test

Five short tests: four multiple-choice tests and one piece of writing. Edutest sorts them into Ability tests and Achievement tests. The Ability tests measure thinking, reasoning and problem solving, without necessarily relying on prior knowledge; the Achievement tests measure actual achievement in Reading Comprehension, Mathematics and Written Expression.

Written Expression has no separate planning or reading time, so your child plans and writes in the same short window.

The multiple-choice tests are answered on paper: children shade bubbles on a paper answer sheet. Edutest doesn't publish exact question counts. Its practice page gives a range: 20 practice questions per test; real tests have 40 to 60.

Everything the real test has, in the same order and on the same clock, plus the working for every question. Results by section and by skill then show which test cost the most marks.

The writing feedback is practice feedback written by AI, which can be wrong or incomplete and is not a mark from Edutest, ACER or any school, so treat it as a guide for practice. Our questions are our own, written in Edutest's style, and none is taken from an Edutest paper.

You make a free parent account first and pick Edutest Scholarship. After that your child can begin Practice test 1; we never ask for a card. Answers and results are saved under your login.

Hard, and on purpose. Edutest calls its tests quite demanding, designed to identify the highest achieving students, and it says most students get only half the questions right.

It also says many students will not finish every question. Tell your child this before the first practice test: hard questions and running out of time are part of the design, not a sign of failing.

There are no marks lost for wrong or blank answers, so a quick guess beats a blank.

Edutest sells its own practice sets, and they're the place to see its own question style. They're shorter than the real tests and untimed, and they leave out the writing.

Use Edutest's sets for its style, and a full timed test for pacing and the writing.

Start a term or two before the school's test date, and practise at your child's current year level. Children are tested at their current year level, and Edutest says to practise at the current school year level with its own sets. Our Practice tests are written for children in Years 6–7 applying for Year 7 or 8.

That leaves time for a first full test, a few weeks on what it shows, and a second test to check what moved. If your child is in Year 5, treat early scores as a starting point, not a forecast.

Treat the first one as a rehearsal: one sitting, the real times, no help. That gives you an honest starting point, and test day will feel familiar.

Spend more time on the review than on the test. How to prepare for Edutest sets out a plan, and Edutest dates explains how each school sets its own date.

What is a good Edutest score?

It depends on the school. Results are compared with thousands of students in the same year level across Australia, and each school sets its own criteria and alone decides who gets a place. A practice score is most useful for showing which test to work on next.

Are there Edutest past papers?

What Edutest describes on its site is its practice sets, with 20 practice questions per test; real tests have 40 to 60. Those sets are untimed, while the real test is timed. If a pack is sold as an Edutest past paper, check who wrote it, and that it matches the tests above, before your child relies on it.

Does my child need an account?

Yes. The free test lives in the app, so results are kept and the writing gets feedback. There's no card and nothing to pay for Practice test 1.