ICAS is an independent skill-based assessment test of six competitions for primary and secondary school students. The test assesses basic skills and learning abilities. Students preparing the ICAS can download the sample papers for practice.
Students in over 20 countries including Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa and the United States participate in ICAS each year. Each test is sat at the student’s school and is invigilated by teachers under normal examination conditions.
Download ICAS Math Paper to know about different levels of the Mathematics assessment test. Download ICAS English Test Papers for online study. Download ICAS Writing exams to learn how to write this paper.
The papers contain ICAS questions with answer sheets. Both the papers are printable. Students can practice solving ICAS questions in answer sheets.
ICAS Digital Technologies test covers the following areas:
ICAS English is an assessment of reading and language skills of students.
Following are the contents of English test-
The test includes a variety of text related to narration, description, explanation, arguments and review. The text is collected from books, short stories, poems and novels. Also, it could be in any format like diagrams, tables and maps.
Note: The level of questions increases from Introductory test to Paper J.
ICAS Mathematics test has five parts:
Note: Papers A, B, C, D and E are given without calculators but calculators are allowed for papers F, G, H, I and J.
ICAS Science stream assesses the skills in:
The science questions involve physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, earth science and astronomy.
ICAS Spelling test is developed in conjunction with Macquarie Dictionary and the assessment is done in four different levels:
Frequently used words with simple spelling patterns and less common words with difficult spelling patterns are used to check spelling knowledge of students.
ICAS Writing skill test assesses writing craft of students. Students are given tasks and the results are prepared on the response given to the tasks.
ICAS is an international assessment of skills and learning abilities of students. It is an annual test quite beneficial for student, parents and schools.
Advantage of ICAS Exam:
Freedom of Information: All of the ICAS tests published on the eaa.unsw.edu.auwebsite have previously been released under the Freedom of Information Act 1982(Cth) (FOI Act). The FOI Act gives you the right to use these ICAS tests. It does not give anyone any rights in relation to these tests.For more information, see the eaa.unsw.edu.auwebsite information sheet – ICAS tests.
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