Free Grade 3 NY State Test Practice Questions
Third grade is the first year New York children sit the State Tests in ELA and math. These questions come from our grade 3 practice exams and are written at a third grader's reading level.
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Read this, then answer the questions about it.
Somebody had lost a mitten. It was red and small. Somebody had pushed it onto the top of the fence post outside the school, so its owner would see it.
Priya noticed it on Monday.
On Tuesday it was still there. On Wednesday it snowed, and the mitten wore a little white hat of snow all day.
By Friday, Priya had started to feel responsible for it.
"It is not your mitten," said her friend Ada.
"I know."
"You do not even know whose it is."
"I know that too."
On Monday of the next week, the mitten was gone. Priya stopped at the empty post and felt something she could not name — not quite sad, but close to it.
Then she saw the kindergarteners crossing the yard, and near the back, a small boy in a blue coat. He was holding his teacher's hand with one hand. On the other hand, bright against the gray morning, was a red mitten.
Priya watched them all the way to the door. Then she went to find Ada, so she could tell her, even though Ada would say it was not a very good story.
Question 1
- A. She has started to care what happens to it
- B. She wants to keep it
- C. She thinks it is hers
- D. Ada asked her to watch it for a little while
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The answer is A. The story says she had started to feel responsible for it, even though it is not hers.
- B is wrong: She never picks it up or takes it.
- C is wrong: She tells Ada plainly that she does not know whose it is.
- D is wrong: Ada thinks she should stop, not start.
Read this, then answer the questions about it.
Somebody had lost a mitten. It was red and small. Somebody had pushed it onto the top of the fence post outside the school, so its owner would see it.
Priya noticed it on Monday.
On Tuesday it was still there. On Wednesday it snowed, and the mitten wore a little white hat of snow all day.
By Friday, Priya had started to feel responsible for it.
"It is not your mitten," said her friend Ada.
"I know."
"You do not even know whose it is."
"I know that too."
On Monday of the next week, the mitten was gone. Priya stopped at the empty post and felt something she could not name — not quite sad, but close to it.
Then she saw the kindergarteners crossing the yard, and near the back, a small boy in a blue coat. He was holding his teacher's hand with one hand. On the other hand, bright against the gray morning, was a red mitten.
Priya watched them all the way to the door. Then she went to find Ada, so she could tell her, even though Ada would say it was not a very good story.
Question 2
- A. Relieved
- B. Angry with Ada about it
- C. Something close to sad
- D. Excited
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The answer is C. The story says it was not quite sad, but close to it.
- A is wrong: Relief would not be described as something she could not name.
- B is wrong: Ada is not there at that moment, and Priya is not cross with her.
- D is wrong: Excited comes later, when she sees the boy.
Read this, then answer the questions about it.
Somebody had lost a mitten. It was red and small. Somebody had pushed it onto the top of the fence post outside the school, so its owner would see it.
Priya noticed it on Monday.
On Tuesday it was still there. On Wednesday it snowed, and the mitten wore a little white hat of snow all day.
By Friday, Priya had started to feel responsible for it.
"It is not your mitten," said her friend Ada.
"I know."
"You do not even know whose it is."
"I know that too."
On Monday of the next week, the mitten was gone. Priya stopped at the empty post and felt something she could not name — not quite sad, but close to it.
Then she saw the kindergarteners crossing the yard, and near the back, a small boy in a blue coat. He was holding his teacher's hand with one hand. On the other hand, bright against the gray morning, was a red mitten.
Priya watched them all the way to the door. Then she went to find Ada, so she could tell her, even though Ada would say it was not a very good story.
Question 3
- A. To prove Ada wrong
- B. Because Ada was the one who lost the mitten out in the snow
- C. To ask Ada for a mitten
- D. Because the story ended well and she wants to share it
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The answer is D. She watches them all the way to the door and then goes to find Ada, expecting Ada to be unimpressed.
- A is wrong: She knows Ada will say it is not much of a story, and she goes anyway.
- B is wrong: The mitten belongs to a small boy in a blue coat.
- C is wrong: Nobody in the story needs a mitten.
Question 5
- A. 13
- B. 42
- C. 36
- D. 67
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The answer is B. 6 rows of 7 is 6 x 7 = 42 chairs.
- A is wrong: This is 6 + 7. The rows are equal groups, so this is multiplication, not addition.
- C is wrong: This is 6 x 6. One of the numbers was used twice.
- D is wrong: The two numbers were written next to each other instead of multiplied.
Question 6
- A. 470
- B. 500
- C. 400
- D. 480
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The answer is D. The ones digit is 6, so 476 rounds up to 480.
- A is wrong: This rounds down. The ones digit is 6, which is 5 or more, so it rounds up.
- B is wrong: This is rounded to the nearest hundred, not the nearest ten.
- C is wrong: This is rounded to the nearest hundred, and rounded down.
Question 7
- A. 505
- B. 595
- C. 605
- D. 705
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The answer is C. 358 + 247 = 605.
- A is wrong: The ten from 8 + 7 was not carried into the tens column.
- B is wrong: The hundred from the tens column was not carried.
- D is wrong: An extra hundred was carried.
Question 8
- A. 964
- B. 444
- C. 436
- D. 546
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The answer is C. 700 - 264 = 436.
- A is wrong: This is 700 + 264. The word "minus" means take away.
- B is wrong: The tens column was not regrouped correctly.
- D is wrong: Only one hundred was regrouped when two were needed.
Question 9
- A. 5/8
- B. 3/8
- C. 8/3
- D. 3/5
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The answer is B. 3 slices out of 8 equal slices is 3/8.
- A is wrong: This is the fraction Ben did NOT eat.
- C is wrong: The numbers are the wrong way around. The whole goes on the bottom.
- D is wrong: This uses the slices left over as the bottom number. The bottom number is the whole pizza, 8.
Question 10
- A. 2/3
- B. 1/4
- C. 3/6
- D. 2/5
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The answer is C. 3 is half of 6, so 3/6 = 1/2.
- A is wrong: 2/3 is more than a half, because 2 is more than half of 3.
- B is wrong: 1/4 is half of a half, so it is smaller than 1/2. Look for a fraction where the top number is exactly half the bottom one.
- D is wrong: 2/5 is less than a half, because half of 5 is 2 and a half.
One more question on this sample asks for a written answer. Try it on the interactive page, where it is marked.