Year 3 Basic Skills Tests

"This series provides teachers with a comprehensive and authoritative assessment and practice tool to use as they prepare students for mandatory external tests such as the NSW Basic Skills Test and the Victorian AIM tests"--Back cover.

Excel Basic Skills English and Mathematics Year 3 aims to bu ild basic skills in reading, comprehension and maths for Year 3 students, in line with Australian Curriculum outcomes. It supports schoolwork by having students practise key basic skills on a regular basis, allowing them to learn new concepts while revising program work. In this b ook students will find: thirty carefully graded double-page units a wide variety of interesting exercises four te rm reviews to test work covered each term arking grids to ident ify strengths and weaknesses a lift-out answer section

Excel Test Skills - General Ability Tests Year 3 is the firs t in a four-book series for Years 3-6 which help students with the skills they need to excel in general ability tests. General ability tes ting covers areas such as logic, general knowledge and reasoning, and fo rms part of many primary school tests used throughout Australia. The book contains: sample questions covering all the main q uestion types found in Year 3 general ability tests a section o f practice questions with hints on how to answer each different type of question twelve practice tests to measure progress hel pful advice for sitting general ability tests answers to all qu estions, plus explanations when required An amount of myst ery surrounds general ability testing. This is probably because it is no t an actual subject such as Science or Mathematics. General ability test ing is based upon the student's ability to think and reason, but most of the questions are based on normal classroom subject matter. This practi ce book is intended to demystify GA tests, thereby giving the student th e confidence to respond positively to the test and maximise his/her scor e.

Excel Basic Skills: Multiplication and Division Year 3&ndash ;4 is designed to make students feel confident in the basic processes of multiplication and division of whole numbers. It will help to satisfy t he needs of slow learners, and provide enrichment opportunity for quicke r learners. Mathematics is a highly important subject in our scho ol syllabus. It is the study of numbers - which surround us everywhere i n our lives. Although computers and calculators have become the order of the day and are quite handy, the human mind controls it all. Whatever w e put into the mind during the initial stages and the formative years of the child is extremely important and most significant for the years to come. This book concentrates on the core concepts involved in div iding and multiplying numbers up to 100. Students are shown how to set o ut problems, how to round numbers and how to work with remainders. The a ctivities give a solid revision in the times tables, and reinforce the c orrect order of operations to follow in longer problems. Features of this book include: Eight self-contained, carefully grad ed units Hundreds of practice exercises Quick question s and revision pages to stay in touch with previous work Diagno stic and mastery tests to measure student's knowledge A life-ou t answer section.