Know your Year 9 learners in week 1, not in May. SMART doesn’t run until Term 2, so this test gives you a common picture of every student on entry: one period, two matched versions, and a strand-by-strand profile on the five progress descriptors. What’s included: • Version A and Version B, 45 minutes each: Part A without a calculator (20 minutes) and Part B with one (25 minutes). 41 core marks on the end-of-Year-8 expectations of the New Zealand Curriculum, plus 8 optional challenge marks beyond Year 8. Word files to add your school logo and name, and print-ready PDFs. • Answers and marking notes for both versions, with what to accept, and common wrong answers with what each one suggests. • A profile for Number, Algebra, Measurement, Geometry, Statistics and Probability, judged against end-of-Year-8 expectations, with flags for who to check for support or extension, and a reading check that separates literacy from maths. • A class spreadsheet (Excel; it also opens in Google Sheets): type in the marks and it gives each student’s profile and flags, plus a class overview. • A teacher guide with five-minute follow-up prompts for flagged students. Colour and black-and-white editions. Reusable every year, with no per-student fees. Curriculum-referenced, not standardised: there are no norms or stanines, and it doesn’t replace SMART. The cut scores are a first version, and the spreadsheet lets you adjust them. School licence: every teacher and student at one school may use and copy these files, including on your school’s learning platform. Please don’t share them outside your school.

Everything Year 9 students need to revise for end-of-year maths exams: a one-page mind map for each of seven units, and a self-assessment checklist for six of them. What’s included: • Seven mind maps, one A4 page each: Number, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Measurement, Geometry, Statistics and Probability. Each sorts the unit by type of question, with the steps, a worked example and the common mistake to avoid. • Six self-assessment checklists, 11 to 18 pages each: Number, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Measurement, Geometry and Probability. 35 objectives, each with an example question and a worked answer at every level from Emerging to Exceeding, so students can check themselves honestly. Each checklist also has a vocabulary page with pictures, a progress tracker and a unit reflection. • A one-page Start here guide for teachers. Every file comes in colour and in black and white for photocopying. The checklists are Word files you can edit, with PDFs to print; the mind maps are PDFs. Pairs with Year 9 Maths Practice Exams A and B, which use the same five levels. School licence: every teacher and student at one school may use and copy these files, including on your school’s learning platform. Please don’t share them outside your school.

Two full Year 9 maths practice exams for the New Zealand Curriculum, with answers, marking notes and a simple way to turn the marks into a progress descriptor. Each exam covers Number, Algebra, Measurement, Geometry and Probability. Every strand has three sections. Sections 1 and 2 test the Year 9 expectations, from quick questions to multi-step problems. Section 3 goes beyond Year 9 for students working towards Exceeding. What’s included: • Practice Exam A and Practice Exam B: 2 hours, 125 marks and 16 pages each. Word files with a box for your school logo, your school name and a date line, plus print-ready PDFs. • Answers and marking notes for both versions, with the marks for every question. • A resource sheet with measurement formulae and angle rules. • A 3-page judgement guide in colour and in black and white: cut scores from Emerging to Exceeding, worked examples, and how they fit the Ministry of Education’s guidance on progress descriptors. Simple judgement: Sections 1 and 2 (out of 103) give the descriptor, and Section 3 (out of 22) decides between Proficient and Exceeding. Near a boundary, the guide shows how to weigh other evidence. School licence: every teacher and student at one school may use and copy these files, including on your school’s learning platform. Please don’t share them outside your school.

See one example of every piece in the Year 9 Electricity Assessment Pack before you buy. The full pack judges each student from every angle: • practical observation checklists and a six-station skills check • conversation prompt cards and a self-assessment checklist • exit tickets, homework, an investigation and a research task, with rubrics • a practice test, end-of-unit tests A and B with marking schedules, and an evidence tracker Every piece is marked against the same five progress descriptors, so the evidence adds up to one best-fit judgement for each student. The sample comes in colour and in black and white. The full pack is available now in the shop.

A complete assessment package for Year 9 Electricity in the New Zealand Curriculum (Science, Phase 4, Matter Interactions and Energy). It judges each student from every angle: what you see at the bench, what they say, what they write and what they score. All of it is marked against the same five progress descriptors, Emerging to Exceeding. What’s included: • Teacher guide: what each descriptor looks like for every knowledge and practice statement, an evidence map, when to use each piece through the unit, and how to make a best-fit judgement. • Observation: three practicals, each with teacher notes, a safety briefing to read out and an observation checklist, and a six-station practical skills check with a student booklet and station signs. • Conversation: four prompt cards of questions to ask at the bench, and a self-assessment checklist with an example question and worked answer at every level for all eight sections. • Student work: eight exit tickets (two to a sheet) with teacher keys; four homework tasks with answers; a resistance investigation with teacher notes, a student sheet and a rubric; and a research task, Powering Aotearoa, with a planning sheet, a source log, a rubric and teacher notes. • Tests: a practice test and end-of-unit tests A and B, 50 minutes each, as Word files with a box for your school logo, your school name and a date line, plus print-ready PDFs. The marking schedules give the descriptor for every mark, with cut scores on the last page. • Evidence tracker: a worked example, a sheet for each student and a class overview. Every document comes as an editable Word file and a print-ready PDF, in a colour edition and a black-and-white edition for photocopying: 22 documents and 126 pages in each. Free updates: if the Ministry publishes science progress descriptors, you’ll get the updated pack free. Want a look first? The free sample pages show one example of every piece. School licence: every teacher and student at one school may use and copy these files, including on your school’s learning platform. Please don’t share them outside your school.