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Reading Year 9 — Practice Paper 1

This is the free sample paper for this year level.

50 questions

65 min allowed

Texts in the magazine

  • The keeper’s daughter — page 2 of the magazine8 Q
  • Why forgetting is good for you — page 3 of the magazine7 Q
  • The case for handwriting — page 4 of the magazine7 Q
  • Migration — page 5 of the magazine6 Q
  • The wire that shrank the world — page 6 of the magazine7 Q
  • Local family discovers “outside” — page 7 of the magazine5 Q
  • The Glass Orchard — page 8 of the magazine5 Q
  • Food waste in Westvale — page 9 of the magazine5 Q

Comes with a colour Reading Magazine and a separate answer key.

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NAPLAN Reading is sat online. Read each text and answer its questions side by side, then see every answer explained.

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Getting the most from it

  1. Print the magazine and the question paper. Keep the answer key somewhere else.
  2. Sit it in one go, timed, without notes — the way the real test runs.
  3. Mark it together afterwards using the answer key.
  4. Enter the marks below to see which topics to practice next.

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