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Free Year 8 Percentages & rates Quiz — 10 Questions, Instant Results

This free Year 8 percentages and rates quiz asks 10 multiple-choice questions on one topic only, drawn from 10 tutor-checked items, and marks them the moment you press submit. It is part of RHZ Tutoring's bank of 3,261 free practice questions: no sign-up, no email, no download.

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Percentages & rates at Year 8: what the curriculum expects

Year 8 percentage work covers increase and decrease, profit and loss, discounts, GST and finding the original amount, together with rates such as speed and unit prices and conversions between units.

This topic sits inside the Victorian Curriculum for Year 8 maths; the questions stay at the easy and at-level tiers so the result is a fair check of the foundations.

Common percentages and rates misconceptions tutors see

The distractors in this quiz are built from real misconceptions rather than random wrong numbers, so a specific wrong answer usually points to a specific gap. The ones we see most at Year 8:

Each of these is fixable in a session or two once it has been named, which is why the results panel below shows the correct answer and an explanation rather than just a score.

Practising percentages and rates with a Year 8 student

The habits that move percentages and rates from shaky to secure at Year 8:

  1. Use multipliers (1.1 for a 10% increase) rather than two separate steps.
  2. Work backwards from a sale price to find the original.
  3. Calculate the GST on real receipts.

In secondary school the lift comes from regular independent practice with worked solutions to check against, and from fixing errors the same day. Twenty minutes, four times a week, is enough.

How this percentages and rates quiz works

We keep 10 percentages and rates questions for Year 8 that meet our standard, at the easy and at-level tiers, and this page serves 10 of them at a time. The default set is stable, so a teacher or parent can share the link; a fresh set is one click away. Marking happens on our server so the answer key cannot be read from the page.

Use this page to answer one question well: is percentages and rates secure at Year 8 level? For the broader picture across every topic and every difficulty tier, the free Skills Check takes about fifteen minutes and produces a report a tutor walks you through.

The quiz: 10 questions

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Question 1
Percentages & rates

A car goes 180 km in 3 hours. Its speed is?

Question 2
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A $80 item has 25% off. The sale price is?

Question 3
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Find 10% of 250.

Question 4
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Find 50% of 84.

Question 5
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Find 15% of 200.

Question 6
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A car travels 210 km on 14 litres of fuel. Petrol costs $2.10 per litre. What is the fuel cost per 100 km?

Question 7
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A $560 television is on sale with a 15% discount. What is the sale price?

Question 8
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A television is advertised at 25% off its original price. After the discount, the store then adds a 10% GST to the sale price. If the original price was $800, what is the final price the customer pays?

Question 9
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A factory produces 1 200 items per day. Due to a machine upgrade, production increases by 15%. How many extra items does the factory now produce each week (7 days) compared to before the upgrade?

Question 10
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A $40 price rises 10%. The new price is?

How to read a score out of 10

9 or 10 out of 10
The easy and at-level content is secure. The useful question now is how far above the year level the student can go, which a ten-item quiz cannot show. The free Skills Check adds stretch and challenge questions on every topic so you can see the ceiling as well as the floor.
7 or 8 out of 10
Solid, with one or two specific gaps. Look at which topic the incorrect answers came from (the results panel names the weakest topic) and spend a week on that topic before re-testing with a different seed.
5 or 6 out of 10
Some core ideas are shaky. The pattern matters more than the score: two misses in the same topic is a gap; misses scattered across topics usually means reading the question too fast. Either way, the Skills Check will tell you which.
4 or fewer out of 10
Foundations from an earlier year are probably missing, which is common and fixable. Try the quiz one year level down to confirm, then talk to a tutor about a short catch-up plan rather than more of the same practice.

What to do with the result

1. Want the full picture?

The free Skills Check takes about 15 minutes, covers every Year 8 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.

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2. Printable practice with answers

Our Year 8 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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3. Tutoring in Melbourne's west or online

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Frequently asked questions

Is this Year 8 percentages and rates quiz free?

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.

Why only 10 questions on one topic?

Because a single-topic set is the most precise free check available: if the score is low, the gap is in percentages and rates and nowhere else. There are 10 eligible questions on this topic in our Year 8 Maths bank, so several different sets are available before any repeat.

Where do the percentages and rates questions come from?

From RHZ Tutoring's own Year 8 Maths 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.

What should I do if the score is low?

Read the explanation for each incorrect answer first; most gaps in percentages and rates 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.

Is there a mixed Year 8 Maths quiz?

Yes. The Year 8 Maths 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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