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Choose what you want to practise

Pick a topic, choose how hard you want the questions to be, then learn, practise, or try a quiz when you feel ready.

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  • New to National 5 Applications? Start with Finance.
  • Confident? Try a quiz first.
  • Need revision? Practise mixed real-life questions.

Choose a topic

Each topic has a lesson, practice questions, and a quiz.

8 practice areas

Managing Finance

Financial decisions using wages, deductions, budgets, interest, borrowing, and repayments.

Topic practice

Managing Finance

Make real money decisions using payslips, budgets, interest, loans and repayments.

Easy to hard

Numeracy and Practical Problem Solving

Percentage change, reverse percentages, profit and loss, discounts, VAT, and interpreting outcomes.

Topic practice

Numeracy and Practical Problem Solving

Use percentages in shopping, business, VAT and price-change contexts.

Easy to hard

Time, Distance and Speed

Timetables, journey planning, time intervals, speed, distance, time, average speed, and minutes-to-hours conversion.

Topic practice

Time, Distance and Speed

Plan journeys, compare routes, use average speed and convert minutes into hours.

Easy to hard

Measurement and Scale

Unit conversions, scale drawings, maps, perimeter, area, volume, compound shapes, material costs and practical measurement choices.

Topic practice

Measurement and Scale

Measure, convert units, read maps and plans, calculate area or volume and estimate materials.

Easy to hard

Statistics and Data

Averages, range, graphs, tables, scattergraphs, and sample or population standard deviation in real data contexts.

Topic practice

Statistics and Data

Choose averages, read graphs, compare data, use standard deviation tables and interpret spread.

Easy to hard

Probability

Simple probability, complements, tables, probability scales, expected frequency and practical interpretation.

Topic practice

Probability

Practise chance, combined events, expected frequency, and interpretation.

Easy to hard

Graphs and Relationships

Reading graphs, interpreting gradients in context, and explaining real-life relationships.

Topic practice

Graphs and Relationships

Read graphs, compare rates of change and explain what gradients mean.

Easy to hard

Planning and Decision Making

Multi-step practical problems where pupils compare options, choose methods, and justify decisions.

Topic practice

Planning and Decision Making

Choose methods, compare options and write decisions with evidence.

Easy to hard