Year 7 English practice, done properly
Year 7 English is the year reading stops being about what a text says and starts being about what a writer is doing. The comprehension questions students met in primary school have a findable answer; from Year 7 the answer is increasingly assembled from two parts of a text, or from what the text stops just short of saying. Every passage in this bank was written for it — nothing is transcribed from a real exam.
This page gives you 525 Australian Curriculum English questions for Year 7, organised into 15 graded tests that climb from Foundation to Extension. Test 1 is free in full — no card, no account.
What Year 7 English covers
The 4 areas the Year 7 bank is built from, in the proportion the questions actually fall:
Year 7 English explained, topic by topic
1. Text comprehension
Nineteen of the thirty-five questions in each test. Students locate explicit detail, then infer from it: what a character's action implies about their state of mind, what a writer's choice of example suggests about their argument, what the text has established without stating. The distractors are the work here — each wrong option is a misreading a Year 7 student actually makes, most often the plausible detail from the wrong paragraph, and each says which misreading it is.
285 of the 525 Year 7 questions are on this topic.
2. Writer's craft
How a text is built and how it positions its reader: figurative language, tone, the effect of a structural choice, and the difference between what a writer states and what they imply. Year 7 is where students are first asked why an image was chosen rather than what it means — a comparison to roof tiles carries orderliness as well as closeness, and the question is which of those the writer wanted.
90 of the 525 Year 7 questions are on this topic.
3. Sentence structure and punctuation
Clause structure, the punctuation that joins and separates clauses, and the effect of sentence length on pace. Colons and semicolons are introduced properly at this level, and they are tested by their job in a sentence rather than by a rule recited — a colon pointing forward to an example that explains the claim before it, which is a different question from where a colon is allowed.
90 of the 525 Year 7 questions are on this topic.
4. Vocabulary
Word meaning established from context, morphology, and shades of difference between near-synonyms. Every vocabulary question in this bank asks about a word that appears in the passage on the same screen, which the builder verifies — a vocabulary question about a word the student cannot see is a guess, not a measurement.
60 of the 525 Year 7 questions are on this topic.
Try real questions — easy and hard
Tests are graded from a foundation confidence-builder (Test 1, free to try in full) up to genuine extension-level questions by Test 15. Here is one of each, straight from the bank.
Every spring, in the flat farming country of inland New South Wales, millions of Bogong moths lift off at dusk and fly south. They are heading for the Australian Alps, some of them travelling more than a thousand kilometres to reach a particular scatter of granite caves above the snowline. None of them has made the journey before. None of them will make it twice.
Inside those caves the moths pack themselves against the rock, wings overlapping like roof tiles, and wait out the summer in a slowed-down state called aestivation. It is the insect equivalent of hibernating through the heat rather than the cold. Mountain pygmy-possums, one of Australia's rarest mammals, depend almost entirely on the arriving moths to fatten up.
Researchers have shown that the moths steer by the Earth's magnetic field, checked against the pattern of stars overhead. Cloud does not stop them. What does stop them is light: a single floodlit sports ground can pull a whole column of moths out of the sky.
**Post-implementation review: the online booking system for parent-teacher nights**
The system replaced a paper sign-up sheet in 2025. We were asked whether it has been a success. It has, on the measures the project set for itself, and this report exists because we think those measures missed something.
On its own terms the result is clear. Bookings that previously took the office around eleven staff hours per round now take under one. Double bookings have gone from routine to zero. Parent satisfaction, surveyed at the end of the first round, was 84 per cent favourable against 61 per cent for the paper system.
The finding the project did not look for is in the attendance data. Overall attendance is unchanged at 78 per cent. But attendance among families whose enrolment record lists no email address has fallen from 64 per cent to 41 per cent across two rounds, and that group is 112 families. The system is not the only possible cause and we say so plainly; two rounds is a short series and other things changed in the same period.
We recommend the school keep the system and add one thing: a paper fallback, offered by default to those 112 families rather than on request. Requiring a family to identify itself as needing an exception is a barrier we have now measured, and it costs the school one printed page.
Frequently asked questions
Is this Year 7 English practice free?
Test 1 for Year 7 English is free in full — all 35 questions and 8 reading passages, with every answer explained. No credit card, no account. The remaining 14 tests are part of a subscription.
Where do the reading passages come from?
Every passage was written for this bank — 120 of them, 24,370 words in total. Nothing is transcribed or adapted from a real exam or textbook. Exam passages are copyright, and original prose is also the only way every question can be guaranteed answerable from what your child is shown.
How hard are the tests?
The 15 tests run across five tiers from Foundation to Extension. The passages themselves get longer and denser as the tiers climb, which is most of what makes reading harder — the builder checks that the median passage length actually rises from tier to tier rather than assuming it.
What does it test besides comprehension?
Each test is 35 questions: text comprehension, writer's craft, sentence structure and punctuation, and vocabulary. The mix is the same in every test, so a weak area shows up as a pattern across tests rather than as one bad result.
Does my child get told why an answer is wrong?
Every option is explained. Each wrong option names the specific misreading it represents — the detail from the wrong paragraph, the inference the text stops short of — because an option that only says 'incorrect' teaches nothing.