PrepNest
For parents

Everything your child’s tests tell you, in one place.

Each test your child sits builds a clearer picture: what they know, what they don’t yet, and how sure we are. Here is what we record, what we work out from it, the dashboard you get — and every tool you can use to help.

From one test to a clear picture

The score is the least of it. How your child answered says as much as what they answered.

  1. 1

    What we record

    • The answer given — or “I’m not sure”
    • How long each question took
    • Whether the answer was changed
    • Whether your child marked it “I guessed”
    • Which questions were follow-ups, chosen from earlier answers
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    What we work out

    • Each area’s level

      Focus areaDevelopingStrength
    • How sure we are

      A clear result, likely, or an early sign — with a percentage — from how many questions back it up.

    • Every skill

      Secure, a gap, mixed, or one slip — so you know exactly what to practice.

    • How the test went

      Rushed answers, running out of time, many skips or guesses are flagged, so a bad day is not read as a bad result.

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    What you get

    • A report, weakest area first, with every question explained
    • Three ways to help at home for each area, written for parents
    • Practice papers built only on the areas to work on
    • Progress over time, each time your child re-tests
    • One dashboard for every child and every test

Inside your dashboard

Every test and every paper lands in one place. Here is each view, drawn with the real dashboard for a made-up Grade 5 student, Mia.

The score, a summary in plain English, and every area of the subject with its level and how firm the result is. This is what you see first — and, with no account, straight after the test.

How to use it: Read the summary, then look for the orange areas: those are the ones to work on.

Sample · Grade 5 Maths

Mia’s results

Mia answered 17 of 32 questions correctly. Statistics & Probability is a strength. The area to focus on is Geometry & Measurement. Number & Operations may need work too, but there were too few questions to be sure.

  • Geometry & MeasurementFocus areaLikely

    1 of 8 correct

  • Number & OperationsMay need workEarly sign

    4 of 10 correct

  • Number PatternsDevelopingEarly sign

    5 of 7 correct

  • Statistics & ProbabilityStrengthLikely

    7 of 7 correct

Sample for a made-up Grade 5 student, drawn with the real dashboard.

How sure is a result?

A child can miss a question they know. So every area says how firm its result is, and a single wrong answer is never called a weakness.

Focus areaClear result

Clear result

Enough questions pointed the same way. Act on it.

Focus areaLikely

Likely

Most of the evidence agrees. Worth working on, and the next test will confirm it.

May need workEarly sign

Early sign

Too few questions to say. Never treated as a weakness — practice papers leave it out until a re-test firms it up.

The test itself adapts: after the first part it asks more where a result could still go either way, and asks again about any skill missed once. Answers marked as a guess, or tapped in two seconds, are not counted as evidence.

Tools to help your child learn

Start with what is free. Add more when you know what your child needs.

Free for everyone

  • Diagnostic test

    Free

    A short adaptive test on screen at your child’s year level, Grade 3 to Year 12. No account needed to start.

    Start the test →
  • Full report and home tips

    Free with an account

    Every area, every skill and every question explained, with three ways to help at home. Saved to your account.

    Create an account →
  • On-screen practice

    Free

    Short topic quizzes with points and streaks, marked as they go with every answer explained. Link your child’s account to see it on your dashboard.

    Try a quiz →
  • Mark a paper on screen

    Free

    Tap the questions your child got wrong on a printed paper and see how each topic went.

    Find a paper →
  • Re-tests and progress

    Free

    Sit the diagnostic again every few weeks. It never repeats a question, and each area shows how it has moved.

    Plan a re-test →
  • Link your child’s account

    Free

    Give your child an invite code from your dashboard, and their practice appears beside your tests.

    Open the dashboard →

With the plan, or per VCE paper

  • Practice papers on the weak areas

    In the plan · $20 each for VCE

    Generated from your child’s result, new every time, on screen or printed with an answer key. 3 a month in the plan.

    Start with the test →
  • Working-out pad

    Included

    A page beside every question to draw, sketch and do sums with a finger, stylus or mouse — in the diagnostic and in practice papers sat on screen.

    Try it in the test →
  • Exam paper library

    Plan from $9.92 a month

    68 NAPLAN-style and school papers for Grade 3 – Year 10, each with a separate answer key. The first half of every paper is free to flip through.

    Browse the papers →
  • Reading papers on screen

    In the plan · first half free

    Read each text and answer its questions on screen, the way NAPLAN Online works, with every answer explained at the end.

    See NAPLAN practice →
  • VCE exams

    $20 per paper · first half free

    Year 11 and 12 papers laid out like VCAA exams, with reading time, formula sheets where VCAA gives one, and full marking guides.

    See VCE papers →

See the plans

A routine that works

  1. Day 1Your child sits the diagnostic (20–35 minutes). You read the report together.
  2. Each weekOne practice paper on the weak areas — on screen, or printed and sat in one go. Go through every wrong answer.
  3. A few times a weekTen to fifteen minutes on one tip or one short quiz. Little and often does more than one long session.
  4. Every 3–6 weeksRe-test. Your dashboard shows each area improving, slipping or holding steady, and the next papers follow it.

Your child’s data

We record what a test needs to be useful, and nothing to sell: we do not sell personal data.

  • Only you see it

    Results are visible to the account they are saved to, and to a parent the child’s account is linked to.

  • Nothing is kept until you save

    Before a result is saved to an account, it stays only in your browser.

  • Delete it any time

    Delete a result from its report, or ask us for a copy of your data or to delete it all.

Read the privacy policy →

Start with one free test.

Twenty to thirty-five minutes, no account needed to start, and a report you can act on straight away.

Start the free test