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This task assesses students' ability to give a book review to a small group.

Students present an instructive speech to the class or small group. Some topics are provided as examples and scoring guides for teachers are attached.

The context for this oral assessment is an informative speech about a famous historic person. ARB scoring guides A, B, and C are suitable for this task.

This task has an assessment focus on the presentation skills of clarity, reason, and justification. Students prepare a short speech presenting a prize. Oral Language Assessment Guides A, B, and C are suitable for this task.

The context for this oral assessment is an informative speech about a famous person or an historical event. ARB scoring guides A, B, and C are suitable for this task.

Students use substitution to calculate the cost and length of time taken to repair washing machines, and formulate and solve a related linear equation.

Students show a range of times on analogue and digital clocks.

Task: Identify patterns in a table and suggest ways to make a toy travel further. Assessment focus: interpreting data; energy; forces.

This oral assessment is designed to be given to a small group. The audience asks questions at the end of the speech. A selection of scoring guides is provided.

Students order small numbers written in standard form, and explain why they are ordered in that way. The numbers are the lengths of some microscopic animals.

For this practical task students create a sundial by marking observations and recording the time for each hour, and answer questions about shadows and sundials.

The assessment focus is on an informative speech to a small group about a famous historical person. Student directions, a checklist, and scoring guides are included.

This practical task requires students to plan and carry out a fair test to find out which paper type will soak up water the best.

Task: Describe and compare some physical properties of plastic objects and identify the properties scientists might use for classifying materials. Assessment focus: classifying using physical properties.

This practical task assesses students' ability to design and carry out a fair test on the relationship between slope and rates of erosion.

Students show, interpret, and do calculations on times in both analogue and digital forms.

Task: Answer two questions about variables in an investigation about insulation and complete a graph. Assessment focus: fair testing.

Students draw the next two triangles in a spatial pattern, calculate the areas of a range of triangles, work out the height of a triangle given its area, and write a rule for the pattern.

For this NEMP task students perform a range of practical measuring tasks including calculations involving time and selection of appropriate units of measuring.

Students choose a proverb from a list, then prepare and make a short speech explaining the proverb's message. The assessment focus is on explaining an idea, using an example and personal opinion. ARB scoring guides B and C are suitable for this task.

Students study a box-and-whisker graph and answer questions on median, quartile and outliers.

The assessment focus is on an informative speech to a small group about a famous person. Student directions, a checklist, and scoring guides are included.

Students read a poem, 'My Other Jandal', then answer inferential questions. The poem is provided with this resource. SJ-2-4-1994. Text not provided.

The context is a plea for a 'good cause' or an emotional statement of opinion on a controversial issue. Some topics are provided. The focus is on passion and forceful speaking. Assessment guides A, B and C are suitable for this task.

The task is to prepare and deliver a short speech on a proverb selected from a list. Assessment guides A and B are suitable for this task.