10 questions on physical science, pitched at Year 1, marked instantly with an explanation for every item. The set is chosen from 15 curriculum-aligned questions on this topic, one slice of the 3,261 free practice questions on this site, and you can get a fresh set with one click.
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A short orientation first. Year 1 physical science covers light and sound: how they are produced by a range of sources and sensed by us.
Our tutors wrote and checked these questions against the Victorian Curriculum, which is why the wording and the difficulty match what a Year 1 student meets at school.
If your child gets a question wrong here, it is worth checking whether one of these is behind it. They are the physical science misconceptions RHZ tutors correct most often with Year 1 students:
Spotting which one applies is the useful part; the fix is usually quick once the misunderstanding is out in the open.
Practice works when it is short, regular and specific. For physical science, our tutors suggest:
Young children do science by exploring. Give them time outdoors, simple materials and your questions, and record what they find in drawings.
Every set on this page is a seeded selection of 10 from the 15 physical science questions that pass our quality gate. A different seed gives a different set, and there are many more combinations than any one student will need. The correct answers never appear in the page source; the browser asks our server for them after you press Mark my answers.
Because every question here is on physical science, a low score is a clear signal and a high score is genuinely reassuring for this topic. What it cannot tell you is whether the other Year 1 science topics are equally secure, or how far above the year level the student can go; the free Skills Check covers both.
Choose one answer for each question, then press Mark my answers. Set 1 · New set of questions →
The free Skills Check takes about 15 minutes, covers every Year 1 topic including stretch and challenge questions, and sends a same-day topic-by-topic report. A tutor calls to walk you through it, no obligation.
Our Year 1 practice papers are full-length, curriculum-aligned and come with worked answers, so a student can practise on paper the way the real test is sat.
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Yes, completely: no sign-up, no email, no payment, and you can take it as many times as you like. It is one of 3,261 free practice questions RHZ Tutoring publishes across Prep to Year 12. Press New set of questions, or add ?seed= to the address, for a different selection from the same topic.
Because a single-topic set is the most precise free check available: if the score is low, the gap is in physical science and nowhere else. There are 15 eligible questions on this topic in our Year 1 Science bank, so several different sets are available before any repeat.
From RHZ Tutoring's own Year 1 Science question bank, written to the Victorian Curriculum, checked by a tutor and passed through an automated quality gate. The same bank feeds our tutoring sessions and the free Skills Check. The questions on this page sit at the easy and at-level tiers.
Read the explanation for each incorrect answer first; most gaps in physical science are one of the misconceptions listed on this page. Then try a second set a few days later. If it is still low, the free Skills Check will show whether the gap is confined to this topic, and a tutor can build a short catch-up plan.
Yes. The Year 1 Science quiz spreads ten questions across every topic for the year, and the hub lists topic quizzes for every year level from Prep to Year 12.
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