Prepare your child for NAPLAN Year 3 with free practice test. Designed for Year 2 students preparing for Year 3 NAPLAN.
Brightstar's NAPLAN Prep Hub gives Year 2 students a complete, free preparation experience for the Year 3 NAPLAN assessment. With 950+ practice questions across Reading, Language Conventions and Numeracy, plus separate Writing tips and strategies, children can build confidence and familiarity with the test format before the real thing.
Comprehension practice with narrative, informational, procedural, and persuasive texts. Passages feature Australian themes including Indigenous culture, native animals, the Great Barrier Reef, bushfires, cricket, and more. Questions test factual recall, inference, vocabulary in context, and main idea identification.
Spelling (80 questions): Common Year 2/3 words, homophones (their/there/they're, to/too/two), silent letters, double consonants, and tricky patterns. Grammar (91 questions): Verb tense, subject-verb agreement, pronouns, apostrophes, commas, direct speech, conjunctions, contractions, sentence types, and more.
Covers 24 topic areas including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, place value, money, time, measurement, data and graphs, 2D and 3D shapes, patterns, symmetry, area, capacity, chance, and multi-step word problems.
Guidance on planning, structuring, and checking written responses, including how to start with a hook, use descriptive language, vary sentence starters, and organise paragraphs.
Brightstar includes 80 interactive questions in NAPLAN-style interactive formats. These include drag-and-drop (reorder sentences, sequence events, sort numbers), hot text (tap the spelling or punctuation error), inline choice (select the correct word from options within a sentence), and multi-select (choose all correct answers).
The Shortened Timed Practice is a NAPLAN-style practice run — deliberately shorter than the official assessment — with 3 separately timed sections (Reading, Language Conventions, Numeracy), question flagging for review, a review screen showing answered, unanswered, and flagged questions, and per-section results with a detailed breakdown. Questions are randomly selected each time for fresh practice.
The NAPLAN Year 3 test takes place in March, just weeks into the school year. That means the content is based on what students learned in Year 2. Starting preparation early gives children time to build confidence, identify areas for improvement, and become familiar with the online test format — all without the pressure of last-minute cramming.
Yes, completely free. No subscriptions, no sign-ups, no hidden costs. Built by a parent for Australian families.
Designed for students preparing for Year 3 NAPLAN. It builds on skills developed in earlier primary years.
No — it is a shortened practice version. It is deliberately shorter than the official assessment and covers Reading, Language Conventions and Numeracy only; Writing practice is separate. It does include timed sections, question navigation, flagging, review screens, and interactive question types (drag-and-drop, hot text, inline choice, multi-select) designed to build familiarity with online-style question interactions.
More than 950 distinct questions in the source banks: 721 practice-bank questions — 180 reading, 80 spelling, 91 grammar, 290 numeracy and 80 interactive — plus 264 further stored questions used by the three shortened timed practices. Each shortened timed practice delivers 108 questions, because some numeracy questions are generated fresh each time.
Yes, your best scores are saved automatically in your browser. You can track progress across Reading, Spelling, Grammar and Numeracy over time. Writing is practised separately and is not part of the score.
Free Year 3 NAPLAN practice designed to help Year 2 students build familiarity and confidence before Year 3. Brightstar is an independent resource and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by ACARA.
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