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Task: Students decide whether six animals are insects or spiders and justify their answers. Assessment focus: Using evidence.

Task: Answer questions about a key for metals: Assessment focus: recognising the purpose of a specific key.

Task: Identify which car will be coolest and explain why. Assessment focus: air currents.

Students identify the angles of rotation that enable shapes to fit onto themselves.

Students complete a table to solve a number pattern increasing by a factor of five.

Students work out how many doses in a larger measure of medicine.

For this NEMP task students use cards with numbers and operations on them to create number sentences.

Students complete two spatial patterns and give the rule for each.

Students evaluate how many complete times a number divides into another when there is a remainder.

Students calculate increases in length, area, and volume, and relate this to the scale factor for an enlargement.

Students use a number line to show as a fraction, the probability of the outcomes of different coin throws.

This listening comprehension assessment is based on a short extract from a school journal on moving an old house. SJ-2-3-1995. Text not provided.

Students fill in the missing sequential numbers on a magic plant and write a rule for the pattern.

Students are provided with a narrative of two children who have gone back to the past at a time when dinosaurs existed. Students have a number of questions to answer during the narrative.

Students read an article on the marathon. They then answer a range of comprehension and vocabulary questions.

Assessment focus: ability to de-construct and interpret messages in advertising, so that students can understand meaning-making processes in the construction of imagery.

Task: Watch a video of two sofas burning, record the results, and use the evidence to make inferences about fire retardants. Assessment focus: using observations to provide evidence.

Students describe a functional rule for two spatial patterns.

Students answer questions based on multiplication or division by 25, and explain how they arrived at their answer.

Task: students investigate the rolling distance of marbles on different surfaces. Assessment focus: processing information to answer a question.

Students conduct a statistical investigation about their prediction of the most common words used in English. They make graphs, describe their shape, and compare their own graph with ones that other students produce.

Task: Match descriptions of kingfishers to their likely diet, and answer questions about food chains. Assessment focus: interpretation of text and pie graphs; conventions of food chains.

Task: Show the relationship of birds' beaks and feet to the food they eat. Assessment focus: adaptations.

Task: Students read a short written text to explain how the special features of wild ginger help it survive. Assessment focus: explanation of wild ginger's special features and why it is a pest plant.

In this task, students look for patterns in electron arrangement in the periodic table. They use their ideas to place missing elements in the table, answer some questions about the patterns, and use the patterns to predict the properties of some elements.