This study aims to analyze English test item types in the National Assessment of Educational Achievement (NAEA) for elementary school students and to re-categorize them from the perspective of the 2022 Revised English Curriculum. The newly released English curriculum is considered unconventional as it reclassifies the content domain into two categories: reception and production. It also introduces two new elements, viewing and presenting, within each category. These changes of the new curriculum naturally call for developing corresponding test items to properly measure students’ English achievement. The analysis of available NAEA test sets reveals that the test items can be further subcategorized based on a more rigorously applied division of communication skills and modes. It suggests that English test items in the NAEA should be developed to more accurately measure each communication skill and mode under the new English curriculum. Additionally, it recommends that English teachers in elementary schools should consider incorporating not only the NAEA but also performance test methods to better evaluate students’ English achievement in classroom-based assessments.