Edutest practice tests
There are no Edutest past papers. Edutest does not release used papers, and schools do not either, so every "past paper" sold online is somebody's reconstruction. What does exist is official sample material from Edutest and practice papers built to the published section timings.
That distinction matters when you are spending money. A pack that claims to be real past papers is telling you something untrue on the first line.
What practice material actually exists?
Three tiers, and they are not interchangeable. Official samples show you the question style. Timed practice papers train the clock. Marked writing gives you the only feedback you will get.
Edutest publish their own practice tests and a separate FAQ about them. Start there, because it is the only material written by the people who write the real paper.
How many practice tests should my child sit?
Enough that the format stops costing marks, and no more. For most families that is six to ten full timed sittings spread across the final six months, with far more single-section drills in between.
The reason to cap it is that Edutest sections are ability-weighted. Verbal Reasoning and Numerical Reasoning measure how quickly a child reasons, not how much they have memorised, so grinding hundreds of papers produces diminishing returns fast. What does keep paying off is the mechanical layer: pacing, skipping and returning, and tracking the answer sheet.
Two of those five sections are the ones families under-practise, and it is always the same two. Numerical Reasoning, because it looks like maths and is not. And the calculator-free Mathematics section, because calculators are prohibited and most Year 5 and 6 students have not done sustained mental arithmetic under time pressure since they were allowed a device.
One thing became obvious running practice papers with the same students over and over: improvement follows the teaching, not the papers. Students who had been taught reading comprehension got better at reading comprehension. Students who had done mathematical work got faster at the maths. The papers themselves did not lift anything that had not been taught first.
That sounds obvious written down, and it is the single most common mistake we see families make. Sitting paper after paper feels like preparation because it produces a score that moves around. What it actually does is show you which area needs teaching. The teaching is the part that moves the score, and the paper is the diagnostic that tells you where to point it.
So use practice papers to find the weak section, then go and work on that section properly, then come back and sit another paper to check. A family sitting a paper every weekend with no teaching in between is measuring the same thing repeatedly and calling it progress.
How should we practise the 15-minute writing task?
Practise it at 15 minutes with no planning time, every time. Written Expression on the Edutest allows no planning or reading time, so any routine that begins with a five-minute plan is training a habit your child will have to abandon on the day.
What is actually being marked, in Edutest's own words, is punctuation, creativity, construction, grammar, spelling and relevance to the task. Relevance is the one that sinks strong writers. Any of creative, descriptive, narrative, persuasive, expository or informative modes may be set, so a child who has rehearsed one beautiful narrative and is handed a persuasive stimulus has nowhere to go.
A workable weekly routine:
1. One stimulus, 15 minutes, pen down at 15 minutes with no exceptions. 2. Rotate the mode. Narrative one week, persuasive the next, expository after that. 3. Mark against the six criteria above, not against how nice it sounds. 4. Rewrite only the opening paragraph, not the whole piece. Openings are where the 15 minutes is won or lost.
Should we practise on paper or on screen?
Match the delivery your child's school uses, and ask the school directly rather than assuming. Edutest sittings are delivered both on paper and on computer depending on the school and the intake.
If the sitting is on paper, the answer sheet is a skill in its own right. Edutest warn that if a student loses their place and enters answers out of order, the test cannot be manually rescored or realigned. Practise with a real multiple-choice answer sheet, not by circling answers in the booklet, or you are not practising the thing that can cost an entire section.
Are free Edutest practice questions any good?
The official free samples are worth doing and worth doing early, because they set expectations about question style. Most other free material online is repurposed general reasoning content with an Edutest label on it.
A quick test before you use anything free: does it run Verbal Reasoning and Numerical Reasoning as separate 30-minute sections, and does it run Written Expression at 15 minutes with no planning time? If it does not, it was not built from the published format and it will train the wrong pacing.
When should we start?
For QASMT Year 7 entry, the application is made in Year 5, so most families begin structured work in Year 4 or early Year 5. For scholarship rounds at independent schools, start once the school confirms it uses Edutest, which is usually a year ahead of the sitting.
Working backwards from the sitting is more useful than a fixed runway:
point of doing it early.
answer between them.
- Six months out: single-section drills, no full papers yet. Build accuracy.
- Three months out: first full timed sitting. Expect it to go badly. That is the
- Six weeks out: full sittings fortnightly, with a full review of every wrong
- Final week: no new material. One short section to keep the rhythm, then rest.
The review between papers is where the gain is. A paper sat and not reviewed is an afternoon spent confirming what your child already could not do.
Where to next
Academies sitting specifically
do include an abstract reasoning section
- Edutest exam format: the five sections, timings and prohibited items
- QASMT entrance test format: the Queensland
- Abstract reasoning practice: for HAST schools, which
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FAQ block for schema
Are there Edutest past papers? No. Edutest does not release used papers. Official sample material is available from edutest.com.au, and everything else is a reconstruction.
How many Edutest practice tests should my child do? Six to ten full timed sittings across the final six months, with single-section drills in between and a full review of wrong answers after each paper.
Can you use a calculator in Edutest practice? No, and practising with one builds a habit that will cost marks. Calculators are prohibited in the real sitting.
How long is the Edutest writing task? Fifteen minutes with no planning or reading time. Practise it at exactly that.
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Written by the teaching team at Practice Tests and Exams. We have taught Year 3 to 12 English and Year 3 to 6 maths in small group classes to our own syllabus since 2008, and prepare Queensland students for selective entry and scholarship exams.
Format and prohibited-items detail verified against edutest.com.au on 10 September 2026.