Get ready! Rove has a new fifth grade class for 2009 that's all ready to help out even more Australians walks away with a truck load of prize money.

It will be embarrassing, entertaining and downright torture for our contestants as they try (AND POSSIBLY FAIL) to prove that they are smarter than a fifth grader.  How hard can it be? Fifth grade kids are only ten years old!  Now's your chance to find out on the third series of Network Ten's Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? later this year.

Each week our adult contestants will come into Mr McManus' classroom to prove that they were listening extra hard in primary school but with $500,000 on the board they are playing for more than a gold star and an elephant stamp.

The return of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? will send even more contestants back to school, pitting professionals, mums, dads and even the occasional police officer against the Grade Five curriculum. More money, more hilarious moments and a great new class will have everyone at home wanting to be teacher's pet when '5th Grader' returns.

Hosted by Rove McManus.

Created by Mark Burnett (The Apprentice, Survivor) Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? is a Roving Enterprises production for Network Ten.

How the show works

It’s everyone’s nightmare:

Having to take a test that you haven't studied for (in a really long time) while standing in front of the entire class (that seats the whole country).

On Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, our contestants can turn this nightmare into a dream come true by answering a series of questions that a kid in the fifth grade would know the answers to.  But will they leave with dignity intact?   Will they prove they are in fact smarter than a fifth grader or admit defeat?

It's the world's easiest game show, and it finds adults teetering between elation and humiliation, as each one tries to answer the question….Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?

The subjects and grade levels are displayed on a board (e.g. Grade 4 Geography, Grade 5 Maths etc.) the contestant can answer them in whatever order they want. Each correct answer moves them higher up the ladder, from $1000 all the way through to $250,000. If they make it that far, they are given the chance to answer one last question for $500,000.

But the stakes are always high; until they hit the $25,000 question, a wrong answer means the contestants go home empty handed.  And after that, if they bomb out, then $25,000 is all they get - even if they're going for half a million.

They do have the option to walk off with their winnings after hearing each question. All our grown ups have to do is turn to the camera and admit, "I am NOT smarter than a 5th Grader!"

Once each question is read, the contestant can walk away, answer …or CHEAT.

Here's how the CHEATS work:

On the shows set is a classroom with five actual students, who come up to help our contestant, two questions per student.  The contestant can use their kid partner in three ways:

1. Peek
The contestant can look at their partner's paper to see if their answer helps.

2. Copy
The contestant lets their partner answer for him, but MUST accept the answer sight unseen.

3. Save
This kicks in automatically. If the contestant answers wrong and their partner has answered right, they are saved and live to fight another day.

The contestant can use each of these CHEATS only once.  Once all the cheats are gone, their classmates can no longer help them.