NAPLAN practice · Year 3 numeracy
20 free NAPLAN-style questions across every strand, marked as soon as you finish, with a worked solution for every question. The official demonstration tests don’t show answers. This one does.
Answer as many as you can, then press Mark my test at the bottom. Use paper for working, no calculator.
What is the value of the digit 4 in the number 347?
There are 5 players in each basketball team. How many players are there altogether in 6 teams?
Mia starts swimming lessons at half past 2 in the afternoon. Which clock time shows when her lessons start?
A shape has 4 straight sides that are all the same length and 4 square corners. What is the name of this shape?
A bag contains 10 red marbles and no marbles of any other colour. Lily picks one marble without looking. Which word best describes the chance that she picks a red marble?
There are 47 students in the school library. Then 35 more students walk in. How many students are in the library altogether?
Look at this number pattern.
What is the missing number?
Lena has a piece of ribbon that is 1 metre long. She cuts off 35 centimetres. How many centimetres of ribbon are left?
(Hint: 1 metre = 100 centimetres)
An equilateral triangle has all three sides the same length and all three angles the same size. How many lines of symmetry does an equilateral triangle have?
A teacher has 24 pencils to share equally among 3 groups. How many pencils does each group get?
The school canteen made 253 sandwiches on Monday. By lunchtime, 128 sandwiches had been sold. How many sandwiches were left?
Look at this number pattern.
What is the missing number?
The picture graph below shows how many goals four students kicked at soccer training. Each ⚽ stands for 2 goals.
| Student | Goals |
|---|---|
| Aiden | ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ |
| Bridie | ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ |
| Carlo | ⚽ ⚽ |
| Dana | ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ ⚽ |
How many goals did Bridie kick?
Zara's soccer training starts at quarter past 3 in the afternoon and finishes at half past 4 in the afternoon. How long is soccer training?
A farmer plants 3 rows of corn. Each row has 9 plants. How many corn plants are there altogether?
Look at this number pattern.
What is the missing number?
A school collected 364 cans of food in Week 1 and 258 cans in Week 2. How many cans did the school collect altogether?
A shape has 6 flat faces, 12 edges and 8 corners (vertices). All faces are rectangles. What is the name of this shape?
The table below shows the number of books four students read during the school holidays.
| Student | Books read |
|---|---|
| Chloe | 7 |
| Marcus | 4 |
| Priya | 9 |
| Liam | 5 |
How many books did Chloe and Priya read altogether?
Jake's birthday is on the third Wednesday of March. The 1st of March is a Sunday. On what date is Jake's birthday?
(Hint: write out the Wednesdays in March.)
These are Tuterly’s own NAPLAN-style questions, not official NAPLAN questions. NAPLAN is run by ACARA. For the official practice tests, see the NAPLAN public demonstration site.
About the test
Sources: NAP: key dates, NAP: numeracy, NAP: tailored tests, NAPLAN 2026 information for parents and carers (SCSA WA), NAP: public demonstration site. Checked October 2026.
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NAPLAN 2027 runs from 10 to 22 March 2027. Schools choose the exact days within the national test window. Ask your child’s school for their timetable.
45 minutes. No calculator. Students work questions out mentally or on paper.
Maths from the Australian Curriculum across number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics and probability. Questions are multiple choice, typed answers and on-screen tasks such as drag and drop.
Yes. Most schools sit NAPLAN online, and the numeracy test is tailored: everyone starts with the same set of questions, and how a student goes decides whether the next sets are easier or harder.
Results are reported against four proficiency levels: Exceeding, Strong, Developing, Needs additional support. Schools give families an individual student report later in the year.
No. These are Tuterly’s own NAPLAN-style practice questions, written to match the style and content of the numeracy test, with a worked solution for each. NAPLAN is run by ACARA, and its public demonstration site has official sample tests (without answers).
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