One practice class test for every topic of the programme.
Fifty minutes, 15 questions drawn at random from a bank of 25 and no penalty: answer even when you are not sure, as you would on paper. At the end you receive by email your score, the correct answer to every question and your weak topics — with an account you see them straight away here on the page. The step-by-step solution unlocks with your first lesson.
A class test is the written test an Italian high-school class sits after each block of the programme; these practice versions are multiple choice.
These are in-year tests on one block of the programme at a time, not the September catch-up exam: for that there is the practice test for the maths catch-up exam.
Test in ItalianThe questions of this simulator are in Italian, as in the real exam.
Year 1
Year 1 is all about calculation: expressions, powers, algebra. In physics you start from measurement.
- Maths · October
Numbers, fractions, powers, sets and logic
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · November-December
Monomials, polynomials and special products
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · January
Factorising and algebraic fractions
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · March
Linear equations and problems
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · April
Linear inequalities and systems
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · May
Euclidean geometry: triangles and congruence
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · September-November
Measurements, significant figures and errors
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · December-January
Vectors, forces and equilibrium of a point
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · February-March
Equilibrium of a rigid body, moments and levers
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · April-May
Geometrical optics
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · December-January
Mixed end-of-term test
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
Year 2
Systems in September, radicals before Christmas, quadratic equations in January; in physics, fluids open the year.
- Maths · September-October
Linear systems (substitution, comparison, elimination, Cramer)
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · October-November
The line in the coordinate plane (gradient, families of lines, distance)
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · November-December
Radicals: domain restrictions, invariance property, rationalising
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · January
Quadratic equations and the parabola as a graph
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · March-April
Quadratic inequalities, with fractions, systems; absolute value and radicals
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · May
Geometry: Euclid, Pythagoras, similarity; classical probability
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · September-October
Statics of fluids: Pascal, Stevin, Archimedes
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · November-December
Heat and temperature: scales, expansion, specific heat, latent heat
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · January-March
Kinematics in one dimension: uniform and accelerated motion, graphs, free fall
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · April-May
The laws of dynamics and their applications
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · January
Mixed end-of-term test
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
Year 3
The year of the leap: functions and conics in maths, and physics moving to three hours with motion in the plane.
- Maths · September-October
Functions: domain, composition, inverse, transformations of graphs
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · November-December
The parabola: families, tangents, problems with a parameter
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · January-February
The circle in the coordinate plane (line and circle, families)
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · March-April
Ellipse, hyperbola, homographic function
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · May
Trigonometric functions: unit circle, associated angles, graphs
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · September-October
Motion in the plane: projectile, circular, harmonic; Galilean relativity
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · November-December
Work, energy, conservation; momentum and collisions
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · January-February
Gravitation: Kepler, Newton, field, satellites
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · March-May
Ideal gases and thermodynamics (1st and 2nd law, Carnot)
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · January
Mixed end-of-term test
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Fluid dynamics: flow rate, continuity and Bernoulli’s theorem — practice test coming soon
Year 4
Two heavy tests in the same term — trigonometry in December and logarithms in January — plus the trigonometric functions of September.
- Maths · September-October
Trigonometric formulas and trigonometric equations and inequalities
dedicated quiz, already online
- Maths · November-December
Trigonometry: right-angled triangles, chord theorem, law of sines, law of cosines
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · January-February
Exponentials and logarithms
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · March-April
Complex numbers; solid geometry
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · May
Combinatorics and probability (conditional, Bayes)
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · September-October
Mechanical waves and sound (interference, standing waves, dB, Doppler)
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · November-December
Wave optics: Young, diffraction, gratings
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · January-March
Electrostatics and direct current: Coulomb, field, potential, Ohm, circuits
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · April-May
Magnetostatics: B field, Lorentz, Ampere
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · January
Mixed end-of-term test
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
Year 5
Class tests run in parallel with the maturità: limits, derivatives and, in physics, electromagnetic induction.
- Maths · September-October
Limits, indeterminate forms, continuity, asymptotes
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · November-December
Derivatives: rules, composite functions, points that are not differentiable, theorems
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · January-February
Full curve sketching and optimisation
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · March-April
Indefinite and definite integrals, areas and volumes
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · May
Probability, distributions, analytic geometry in space
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · September-November
Electromagnetic induction, self-induction, alternator, transformer
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · December-January
Maxwell’s equations, e.m. waves, spectrum, polarisation
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · March-April
Special relativity
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Physics · April-May
Quantum physics: blackbody, photoelectric effect, Bohr, de Broglie
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
- Maths · January
Mixed end-of-term test
50 minutes · 15 questions · score out of 15
How these tests work.
How are the questions made?
Each test draws 15 questions at random from a bank of 25, with 4 options each: two attempts never give you the same test, so you can retake it a few days later without remembering the answers. The topics are the ones that weigh most in the test on that block of the programme, at textbook difficulty — no olympiad questions.
Why is there no penalty for wrong answers?
Because this is a simulated class test, not an admission test. With a penalty it pays to leave a question blank when you are unsure; here it always pays to try, exactly as in front of the teacher’s sheet of paper, where a reasoned attempt can earn marks and an empty box cannot. The score is +1 for a correct answer, 0 for a wrong one and 0 for a blank.
My teacher sets exercises to work out, not multiple-choice questions: is it still worth it?
Yes, but for one specific thing. The part of a test that almost always goes wrong is not the set-up, it is the mechanical piece in the middle: a sign, a property applied badly, a domain restriction forgotten. A multiple-choice question measures that well too, and in 50 minutes it measures 15 of them. It does not replace practice on the written paper — writing out the working has to be practised separately — but it quickly tells you which topics are worth doing it on.
Are there physics tests too?
Yes, six: measurement and errors, fluid statics, motion in the plane, work and energy, electrostatics and circuits, electromagnetic induction. They are placed according to the calendar of the liceo scientifico, where physics starts in Year 1; at the classical, languages and human-sciences high schools the same sequence begins in Year 3, so the right test is almost always the one two years earlier.
Is the test next week?
Take the practice test and then we look at the results together in a free diagnostic: I tell you which two or three topics are worth working on before the test. See also maths tutoring, the physics tutoring and, if the goal is the September exam, the maths catch-up exam.