Arnav Reached The Top Of Exceeding In Year 7 NAPLAN

In his first classes at Cuemath, Arnav said almost nothing. He was quiet and reserved, and would not say which questions he liked or which ones he wanted to leave alone. His tutor, Pooja Gupta, had one thing to work with: he already liked math. That became the way in. Pooja has taught him since Year 2, through weekly online math tutoring.

NAPLAN Sorts Students Into Four Proficiency Levels

NAPLAN is the national assessment sat by Australian students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. Results are reported against four proficiency levels: Exceeding, Strong, Developing, and Needs additional support. Exceeding is the top level, and the report goes further than naming it. It plots exactly where a student sits inside that level, against the national average and against the range of achievement for the middle 60% of Year 7 students in Australia.

His Numeracy Result Sat At The Top Of Exceeding

On the 2026 NAPLAN paper, Arnav's numeracy result was not just inside the Exceeding band. The dot marking his score sits at the very top of it, clear of the national average and above the range for the middle 60% of Year 7 students in the country.

Arnav's 2026 NAPLAN numeracy result

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Simulations and Personalized Lessons Let Him Work At His Own Pace

A student who will not say what he does not understand cannot be taught by asking many questions. So the classes were adapted to let him learn at his own comfort level.

Interactive simulations blended into the Cuemath lessons let Arnav change a value and watch the result move. His practice sheets were set to his level rather than his year, so nothing arrived before he was ready for it.

He worked through concepts at his own speed until he was comfortable enough to say what he was thinking. The questions started coming after that.
Today, Arnav is thriving in school and consistently earning A grades on his assessments.

Pooja Gupta
Cuemath Tutor

"In his initial days he was very quiet and reserved, and hesitated to speak out about his likes or dislikes. His deep-rooted fondness for math became a powerful bridge.

Over the years he has transformed into a confident and inquisitive learner who actively asks questions. This progress was greatly accelerated by interactive simulations and personalized sheets, which let him engage deeply with math concepts at his own pace until he felt comfortable sharing his thoughts."

Asking Questions Is What Being MathFit Looks Like

Arnav still takes his time before he answers. What changed is what happens in that time. The thinking comes out as a question now, instead of staying where nobody could hear it. That is what being MathFit looks like: the confidence to name the part you have not understood yet, which only comes from working at a pace that never forces a guess.

Arnav is in Year 7 now, and the papers only get harder from here. He is not the only Cuemath student in Australia building a run like this; another student earned three distinctions in Year 8 with Cuemath.