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NAPLAN Preparation and Tutoring on
Sydney's Northern Beaches & North Shore
Students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9
Preparing for NAPLAN
NAPLAN is sat by every student in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9, and it is the one assessment on this list that nobody opts into. That changes what preparation should look like: the goal is a student who is not thrown by the format, not a student who has spent a term cramming for a test that reports a band rather than a mark.
BTA tutors work on the underlying reading, writing and numeracy the test samples, and use practice papers to make the timing and the question types familiar rather than to drill. Lessons run one-on-one at any of our academies, online, or at home.
For what the test itself contains, read naplan practice tests and preparation.
How BTA prepares students for it
The skills, not the paper
Reading comprehension, sentence-level grammar, spelling and the numeracy the test samples are ordinary classroom skills. A tutor works on those, so the gains outlast the test rather than expiring the day after it.
Familiar by the time it counts
Most of what unsettles a student in NAPLAN is the format: the clock, the screen, the way the online tests adapt. Practice under those conditions removes the surprise without turning the year into exam preparation.
Honest about what it measures
NAPLAN reports a proficiency standard, not a rank or a place. We tell families what a result does and does not say, and we do not sell preparation for it as though a place depended on it.
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Our guides to NAPLAN
Written by BTA’s tutors, free, and no sign-up.
NAPLAN practice tests and preparation
What NAPLAN is, how the online adaptive tests work, how proficiency standards are reported, and how to prepare without cramming.
NAPLAN Year 3
The paper writing test, online reading and numeracy, and term-by-term preparation.
NAPLAN Year 5
Online adaptive tests, typed writing, timings, and the mistakes parents make.
NAPLAN Year 7
Longer tests, calculator and non-calculator numeracy, and what changes from Year 5.
NAPLAN Year 9
The final NAPLAN: writing genres, calculator use, and preparing across the year.
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Common questions
What families ask about NAPLAN
NAPLAN runs over a two-week window each March, so a term of steady work in the lead-up is plenty. It is not an exam that rewards a long campaign, and we would rather a student arrived rested than drilled.
NAPLAN is a point-in-time snapshot rather than a pass-or-fail exam, and we say so plainly. What tutoring is worth doing for is the underlying reading, writing and numeracy - which is what the test samples, and what matters long after it.
Preparation is charged at our ordinary one-on-one rates, starting at $95 an hour, with no enrolment or admin fees and no lock-in contract. Every rate is on the pricing page, and packages save up to 7.5% against pay-as-you-go. The 50-hour package requires 1-hour (60-minute) lessons, so it isn't available for primary students, whose lessons are 45 minutes - their packages save up to 5%.
Yes, and at the same rate. Lessons run at any of our eight academies across Belrose, Brookvale, Forestville, Mona Vale and Gordon, online, or at home, and you can switch format from one week to the next.
The first session is an informal assessment rather than a lesson. A tutor works out where the marks are actually going, and the plan follows from that instead of from a fixed course every student is put through.
Everything else is on our frequently asked questions page.
Why we publish
We give a lot of it away
Our tutors write for their own lessons: a breakdown of a set text, a maths paper pitched at one year group, the explanation that finally landed with a student on a Tuesday afternoon. Rather than leave that in a folder at one academy, we publish it.
The English half is free and has been for years. Around 15,000 students a year use those guides, most of them sitting the HSC, and you do not have to be a BTA student to open one. No account, no email address, no payment.
It is not a sideline either. These are the same pages our tutors build lessons from, which is why they are specific about a text or a module rather than general advice about how to study.
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