Reach student benchmarking and progression monitoring

Identify gaps in your students’ knowledge and fine-tune your teaching to fill them

From the creators of ICAS, Reach is a suite of annual online benchmarking assessments for Year 2 to Year 10 students. It gives you accurate, objective data on your students’ progression year on year, allowing you to tailor your teaching and help them fulfil their learning potential.

Reach covers six literacy and STEM subjects. Its questions are created by seasoned teachers, psychometricians and test developers, drawing on decades of rigour and expertise.

Reach assessments are run simultaneously across Australia, New Zealand and other countries across the world, with unique test dates for each subject across three flexible windows.

Accurate benchmarking assessments with clear, actionable data

Get rich data on your students’ strengths and weaknesses, and improve lesson planning and programming, and class allocations.

Assess single classes, groups or entire year levels easily, across key curriculum subjects.

Access a clear, usable reporting dashboard on student performance to help determine the best actions.

Engage students with curriculum-aligned, scenario-based questions to test a variety of higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills.

Get direct support from our assessment consultants, including how to interpret data and act on results.

About Reach

Subjects

Reach encompasses seven literacy and STEM subjects, from English to Science.

Next dates

Check out the upcoming test dates for Australia, New Zealand and Pacific and international.

Pricing

Reach subjects are priced individually so you can pick and choose what works for you.

Year levels

Find out which subjects and exam papers are available for each year level.

Support

Access resources to get the most from Reach.

How are Reach and ICAS different?

Reach is an annual benchmarking assessment and ICAS is a competition.

Objective performance data to improve your teaching

Get data to help with report writing and parent interviews

Get a detailed breakdown of student performance by subject skill area, and how they compared against their class and the rest of the school. Perfect for reports and parent interviews.

See student performance by grade / band

See each student’s grade / band to help with class groupings, or the creation of new classes like Gifted and Talented or extra support classes.

Compare student performance by skill area

Directly compare student performance to determine strengths and weaknesses, and what needs to be worked on in class.

Identify knowledge gaps by skill area

Pinpoint knowledge gaps for your students and learn what needs to be worked on in class.

Measure performance for specific year levels

See how your individual year levels perform every year, by subject. This helps you identify problems (or successes) with specific year levels.

Identify questions that students need to work on

Use our Distractor Analysis report to quickly identify questions that lots of students got wrong (the shaded boxes), and work on the exact questions in class.

Track student progression from year to year

Check how students are advancing for each subject from year to year, including their speed and whether they are going backwards.

Track cohort performance from year to year

Measure cohort progress from one year to the next for every subject, to identify how quickly they’re advancing and whether interventions are needed.

Reach is a great assessment that provides a wide range of questions across all scientific skills. The questions can be accessed by all students, thereby increasing the confidence in student ability while providing a small range of very challenging questions for the highly gifted. The assessment data available with Reach results allow my teachers to reflect on their teaching practice and make modifications. This provides students greater depth in learning the science concepts while reducing teacher load in writing assessment items. Science Reach is therefore incorporated as a compulsory assessment for Year 7 to 10 at Normanhurst Boys High.