The questions are the real ones: released by New York State from the 2023, 2024 and 2025 tests, each with the share of New York kids who got it right. We place your child on the curve of New York City students, with the Level 3 line and the Hunter line drawn in.
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Released question from the 2025 New York State Grade 5 Mathematics Test (NYSED).
Every state standard sits on a map of what it leans on. Each grade below is a shelf of standards: solid, missed, or not checked yet. Tap one to see the fundamentals one step underneath it and how strong they are.
Middle school applications in New York run on fourth-grade grades and fifth-grade state scores. Sprout keeps this result, retests each season so the band tightens, and turns the weak domains into ten-minute practice your kid will actually do.
The questions. New York State releases at least 75 percent of each spring Grades 3 to 8 math test. This check uses the multiple-choice questions from the 2023, 2024 and 2025 grade 3, 4 and 5 releases, exactly as printed, with the answer key and the standard each one measures taken from the NYSED item maps. Questions that need a drawing the page cannot make are left out.
Twins. Some released questions have a twin: the same structure, the same wrong-answer traps, different numbers or names. A twin is scored with its original's statewide percent correct, the way test publishers treat cloned items. The first check on a browser uses only real released questions; twins appear when the real ones for a grade have all been seen on this browser, and in the fundamentals rounds when a standard has no unseen released question left. A twin says so under the question.
Difficulty. Each released question comes with its statewide P-value, the share of New York students who answered it correctly. On the 2025 tests those run from 84 percent (an easy grade 4 fraction question) to 28 percent (a grade 5 mixed-number multiplication). We turn each P-value into a difficulty on a logit scale: b = −k · logit(p), with k correcting for the spread of students in the grade.
Choosing questions. The first questions cover each domain of the state blueprint (fractions, base ten, measurement, geometry, and operations in grade 4). After that, each next question is the one that tells us the most about your child at their current estimate, the rule computer-adaptive tests use. Fifteen questions are asked.
The estimate. A one-parameter (Rasch) model with a normal prior over the grade. After each answer the posterior over ability is updated; the reported position is its mean, and the band is one standard deviation each way (about 68 percent). This is the same family of model behind NWEA MAP Growth, i-Ready and Star Math, which report a RIT, a scale score or a Rasch unit with a standard error.
The curve and the lines. The grey hill is the distribution of ability in the grade, cut into Levels 1 to 4 so that the share of students in each band matches New York City's 2025 results (grade 5: 22, 21, 34 and 23 percent; grade 4: 18, 22, 37 and 24 percent). The Hunter line is placed at roughly the top 8 percent of fifth graders, which is where the school's math cutoff of 497 on the grade 5 test falls; it is an approximation, not a published percentile.
The map. Each standard is a point on the Student Achievement Partners coherence map, read through the Learning Commons, which links every standard to the ones it builds on. The standards your kid missed are marked, their prerequisites are pulled in two hops back, and a prerequisite that was never asked is flagged as the first place to look. The "smaller skills" are the Learning Commons learning components for the standard; the "common traps" are drawn from its misconception sets and kept only where they fit the standard.
The fundamentals check. After the first fifteen, the page offers a second round: released questions on the standards one step underneath each miss on the coherence map, from the same grade or the grades before, two per standard at most. That round changes nothing in the level or the percentile; it only fills in the shelves, so the result says whether a miss is about the new idea or about the groundwork under it. Grade 3 questions come from the 2025 grade 3 released set (ten of its sixteen multiple-choice items; the six that need a drawing are not in yet).
Your data. There is no account and no server of ours. Every answer is encoded in the result link (the part after the #, which browsers never send to any website) and, when a check is finished on this device, kept in this browser's own storage so it shows up under "Kept on this browser". Nothing about your child is uploaded, logged or sent to us; the only copy is the link in your hands and the one in your browser. Anyone you send the link to can see the answers, so share it as you would a report card. The "Forget" buttons on the front page remove the browser copy.
What it is not. It is not a state test score and it does not predict one. Fifteen multiple-choice questions on one afternoon give a wide band; the real test has 44 questions over two days. We never print a scale score, a RIT or a NAEP number, because those belong to the organizations that built them. Treat the result as where to look next, not a verdict.
Middle School Ready is an independent tool. Released test questions are the property of the New York State Education Department and are reproduced under its release for review and use. Not affiliated with NYSED, NYC Public Schools or Hunter College High School.