The year your child is in when the test is sat. Years 3–4 sit AMC Middle Primary; Years 5–6 sit Upper Primary. The Melbourne Grammar test is sat in Year 4. ICAS Mathematics and English, Science and Digital Technologies: Years 4–6. NAPLAN: Years 3, 5 and 7. AMC Junior (Years 7–8) is being built: Year 7 can start NAPLAN today, and Year 8 joins the list.
The AMC is expected in the first week of August; entry is through the school. Years 3–4 sit Middle Primary, Years 5–6 Upper Primary.Sat in Year 4, three years before Year 7 entry. Invitation-only, April or May. The school publishes no paper, so the test is built from the public Year 3–5 assessments that test the same skills: numeracy, spelling, grammar and punctuation, reading, thinking skills and reasoning. Reading joins soon.ICAS is sat at school in August; entry is through the school. Year 4 sits Paper B, Year 5 Paper C and Year 6 Paper D. Mathematics: forty questions in one hour, no calculator, in the five categories on the official answer keys. English: reading passages with questions on comprehension, the writer's craft, syntax and vocabulary.ICAS Science is sat online in August; entry is through the school. Year 4 sits Paper B (30 questions, 45 minutes), Year 5 Paper C and Year 6 Paper D (40 questions, 55 minutes). Multiple choice, on tables, graphs, diagrams and experiments, in the five skills of the official framework.ICAS Digital Technologies is sat online in August; entry is through the school. Year 4 sits Paper B (30 questions, 30 minutes), Years 5 and 6 Papers C and D (35 questions, 35 minutes). Multiple choice across the six official areas: digital systems, word processing, graphics, internet and email, spreadsheets and databases, and programming.Sat online in March of Years 3, 5 and 7: choose the year your child sits it (a child in Year 4 now sits the Year 5 paper next March). Numeracy, reading, spelling, and grammar and punctuation as papers — the results on the student report — and a writing piece each week marked on the official ten-strand rubric.