Year 5 NAPLAN is significantly harder than Year 3. Longer reading passages, more complex grammar (passive voice, reported speech, relative clauses), decimal numbers, angles, and percentages. Finding quality free practice at this level is even harder — most free platforms focus on Year 3.
Brightstar's NAPLAN Year 5 Prep Hub is built specifically for Year 4 students preparing for the Year 5 NAPLAN assessment. All content was developed by studying official ACARA Year 5 example papers to ensure the difficulty level matches the real test.
What's Included
📖 Reading: 10 passages (60 questions) covering narrative, informative, procedural, discussion, persuasive, biography, and poetry. Questions test inference, author's craft, figurative language, word etymology, and text structure — matching the complexity of real Year 5 NAPLAN.
📝 Language Conventions: 30 spelling questions (harder words: architecture, perseverance, environment) and 29 grammar questions including past perfect tense, passive voice, reported speech, semicolons, relative clauses, and colons.
🔢 Numeracy: 39 static questions plus 15 generators. Covers decimals, percentages, angles, speed, algebraic thinking, pie charts, scale drawings, and multi-step reasoning.
✍️ AI Writing Feedback: 19 NAPLAN-style prompts (10 narrative + 9 persuasive). Your child writes their response and receives instant AI feedback scored against all 10 NAPLAN writing criteria. This is the only free NAPLAN platform in Australia offering AI writing feedback.
3 Full Practice Tests
Each test matches the real Year 5 NAPLAN format: Reading (50 min), Language Conventions (40 min), Numeracy (50 min). Each test contains approximately 114 questions across 6 dedicated reading passages plus spelling, grammar, and numeracy sections. All three tests use unique question banks with zero overlap.
What Makes Year 5 Different from Year 3?
The NAPLAN Year 5 test is more demanding in every domain. Reading passages are longer and require deeper analysis — identifying author's craft, understanding tension in fiction, interpreting figurative language. Grammar includes concepts like passive voice and reported speech. Numeracy introduces decimals, percentages, angles, and multi-step problems with larger numbers. Our content reflects all of these differences.
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Open NAPLAN Year 5 →Aligned to Official ACARA Papers
Every aspect of the Year 5 content was developed by studying the official ACARA Year 5 example papers for Reading, Language Conventions, and Numeracy. This includes matching the specific question types, difficulty levels, and format that students will encounter in the real test.
For example, ACARA's Year 5 numeracy paper includes questions like "Which decimal is greater than 0.08?" and "Kim divided 342 by a number and got 34.2. What number did she divide by?" Our question bank includes equivalent questions at the same difficulty level.