Common Y6 Mental Test Paper Themes

Tables Knowledge

•How many sixes are there in thirty-six?

•What is four multiplied by nine?

•What is the remainder when twenty-seven is divided by five?

•What is thirty multiplied by seven?

•What is three times three added to four times four?

•Multiply eight by four, then add fifty.

Related Facts

•What is double one point seven?

•Add together nought point two, nought point four and nought point six.

•What is one point three multiplied by four?

•Subtract one point nine from two point seven.

•What is the sum of eight point five and eight point six?

•What is double fifteen point five?

Addition and Subtraction Strategies

•Subtract thirty-two from seventy.

•What is one thousand minus one hundred and ten?

•What number is thirty-four more than fifty-eight?

•Calculate the difference between two hundred and eighty-nine and three hundred and fifty-two.

•Subtract one hundred and five from two hundred.

•Add thirty-six and seventy.

•Subtract twenty-one from one hundred.

•What number is one hundred less than ten thousand?

Multiplication/division by 10, 100 and 1000

•What is twenty-five multiplied by two hundred?

•What is seven point five divided by one hundred?

•Divide nought point nine by one hundred.

•How many grams are there in two point seven kilograms?

•Multiply thirty-nine by seven.

•A fruit pie costs fifty-five pence.
What is the cost of three fruit pies?

•What is three thousand divided by twenty?

Missing Numbers

•I think of a number, subtract ten and double the result. The answer is forty-four. What is my number?

•Six times a number is three thousand. What is the number?

•Five times a number is two hundred.
What is the number?

•Jenny thought of a number.
She doubled it and then added four.
The answer was eighty-eight. Which number did she think of?

•When a number is divided by seven, the answer is three remainder four.
What is the number?

Fractions

•Add together two and a half and three and a half and four and a half.

•What is one-fifth of one thousand?

•What is two-thirds of sixty-six?

•Put a ring around the fraction which is equal to one-half.

•What fraction of the diagram is shaded?

•What is one-half added to three-quarters?

•What is three-quarters of five hundred?

Fraction/decimal/percentage conversion

•Put a ring around the percentage that is equal to three-fifths.

•What is seven-tenths as a percentage?

•What is twenty out of forty as a percentage?

•Put a ring around the decimal which is equal to one-fifth.

•Put a ring around the fraction which is equal to nought point four.

Measures conversions

•How many millimetres are there in fifteen centimetres?

•How many centimetres are there in half a metre?

•How many millilitres are there in one and a quarter litres?

•How many metres are there in four and a half kilometres?

•How many grams are there in twelve kilograms?

•How many grams are there in two point seven kilograms?

Money

•I had one pound.
I bought two cartons of drink and got thirty pence change.
How much did each carton of drink cost?

•Oranges cost fifteen pence each.
I buy four oranges.
How much change do I get from a two pound coin?

•How much must I add to four pounds ninety to make six pounds?

•Look at the list on your answer sheet.
It shows the price of pizzas.
How much more does a large pizza costs than a small one?

Time

•Look at the list on your answer sheet.
It shows the times that buses leave the bus station.
How many minutes are there between each bus?

•What is the time twenty minutes after nine fifty-five?

•My watch shows two-fifty p.m.
What time will it show in thirty minutes?

•How would quarter past four in the afternoon be shown on a twenty-four hour digital clock?

•A bus is due to arrive at nine–fifty. It is twenty-five minutes late.
At what time will it arrive?