THE KENYA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

Kenya Primary School Education Assessment

MATHEMATICS
Grade 6
1 hour 20 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES (Please read these instructions carefully)

1. You have been given this question booklet and a separate answer sheet. The question booklet contains 30 questions.

2. Do any necessary rough work in this booklet.

3. When you have chosen your answer, mark it on the ANSWER SHEET, not in this question booklet.
HOW TO USE THE ANSWER SHEET
4. Use an ordinary pencil.
5. Confirm that the answer sheet that you have been provided with has the following:
YOUR ASSESSMENT NUMBER
YOUR NAME
NAME OF YOUR SCHOOL
NAME OF SUBJECT

6. Do not make any marks outside the boxes.

7. Keep the sheet as clean as possible and do not fold it.

8. For each of the questions 1 – 30, four choices are given. The choices are lettered A, B, C and D. In each case, only
ONE of the four choices is correct. Choose the correct answer from the choices.

9. On the answer sheet, the correct answer is to be shown by drawing a dark line inside the box in which the letter you
have chosen is written.

Example
In the Question Booklet:
11. Work out 2 × 18 + 7
A. 252
B. 50
C. 43
D 27
The correct answer is C (43).
On the Answer Sheet:
In the set of boxes numbered 11, draw a dark line inside the box with the letter C printed in it as indicated below.
11 [A] [B] [C] [D]

10. Your dark line MUST be within the box.

11. For each question, ONLY ONE box is to be marked in each set of four boxes.
This question paper consists of 11 printed pages
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1. There were sixty five thousand and fifty people who Working Space
attended an agricultural show. What is the number of
people in symbols?

A. 60550
B. 65550
C. 60505
D. 65050

2. At the beginning of the year, there were 1204 learners in

a school. By the end of the year, 132 learners left the
school. At the beginning of the following year, 214
joined the school. How many learners are there in the
school now?

A. 1550
B. 1286
C. 1122
D. 858

3. A teacher displayed the following number cards to the

learners.

24362
24362 52628

A learner rounded off each number in the cards to the

nearest hundreds. What was the sum of the rounded
numbers?

A. 76990
B. 77000
C. 77010
D. 77100

4. A factory produced 7435 pieces of soap. The workers

packed 1263 pieces of the soap. How many pieces of
soap were not packed?

A. 6172
B. 6232
C. 6272
D. 8698

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5. A lorry carried 452 cartons of books. Each carton had Working Space
24 books. How many books did the lorry carry
altogether?

A. 11848
B. 10848
C. 9648
D. 2712

6. Work out

64 ÷ 4 × 2 + 8

A. 160
B. 40
C. 16
D. 4

7. Musa divided his piece of land as shown.

!
Maize covered "
of the piece of land while beans
#
covered $ of the piece of land. What fraction of the
land was left for grazing?

A. #
"

B. %
$

C. &
$

D. '
$

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8. Arrange the fractions " , % , # from the smallest to
the largest. Which one of the following is the correct
arrangement?

A. ! " #
, % ,
# "

B. # ! "
, ,
" # %

C. " ! #
% , ,
# "

D. ! # "
, ,
# " %

9. A trader arranged her green grocery for sale as shown.

What portion was covered by cabbages, tomatoes and

onions?

A. 0.825
B. 0.700
C. 0.575
D. 0.175

10. Arrange the following decimals 0.75, 1.25, 0.8, 1.135

from the largest to the smallest. Which one of the
following is the correct arrangement?

A. 0.75, 0.8, 1.135, 1.25

B. 0.75, 1.135, 1.25, 0.8
C. 1.135, 1.25, 0.8, 0.75
D. 1.25, 1.135, 0.8, 0.75

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11. The track shown measures 21 m 45 cm. Working Space

Neema ran on the track three times. What distance did

she cover?

A. 7 m 15 cm
B. 42 m 90 cm
C. 64 m 35 cm
D. 128 m 70 cm

12. A block of wood is 3 metres long. What is the length of

the block of wood in centimetres?

A. 30
B. 300
C. 3000
D. 30000

13. Find the perimeter of the shape shown.

A. 20 cm
B. 25 cm
C. 30 cm
D. 35 cm

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14. The figure shows a rectangle divided into unit squares. Working Space

What is the area of the rectangle?

A. 35
B. 20
C. 12
D. 5

15. Patel had a sh 1000 note. He changed the money into

different denominations. Which one of the following
represents the correct change?

A. sh 500 + sh 200 + sh 100 + sh 50 + sh 50

B. sh 200 + sh 200 + sh 200 + sh 200 + sh 100 + sh 50
C. sh 500 + sh 200 + sh 100 + sh 100 + sh 50
D. sh 500 + sh 200 + sh 200 + sh 100

16. A construction worker bought 175 kg of cement, 473 kg

of sand and 282 kg of ballast. What is the total mass of
the materials bought?

A. 930 kg
B. 755 kg
C. 648 kg
D. 457 kg

17. What is the next missing number in the pattern?

10, 12, 16, 24, 40, ________

A. 32
B. 42
C. 64
D. 72

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18. The beam balance shown was used to measure the mass Working Space
of unga.

What is the mass of unga in kilograms?

A. 5
!
B. 2
%
C. 2
!
D. 1%

19. A trader bought 260 kg of sugar. He then sold 175 kg of

the sugar. Later, the trader bought 195 kg to add to the
remainder. How many kilograms of sugar does the
trader have now?

A. 20
B. 85
C. 280
D. 455

20. The figure shows a number on a place value chart.

What is the place value of digit 5 in the number?

A. Tenths
B. Hundredths
C. Ones
D. Thousandths
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21. At a construction site, building blocks were arranged to Working Space
form the stack as shown.

How many blocks are in the stack?

A. 18
B. 24
C. 54
D. 72

22. Jeru visited the grandmother for 13 days. How many

weeks and days did Jeru take?

A. 1 week 3 days
B. 1 week 6 days
C. 2 weeks 0 days
D. 2 weeks 3 days

23. Asha started reading a story book in the morning as

shown on the digital clock.

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She read the storybook for 1# hours. What time did
Asha stop reading the storybook?

A. 11.45 a.m
B. 11.45 p.m
C. 12.45 a.m
D. 12.45 p.m

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24. The two clock faces shows the starting time and Working Space
finishing time of a football match.

How long did the football match take?

A. 70 minutes
B. 120 minutes
C. 130 minutes
D. 190 minutes

25. Which one of the following lists shows money paid by

the public to a county government of Kenya?

A. Land fees, school fees, parking

fee, cess
B. Market fees, cess, business
permit, security fee
C. Market fees, business permit,
cess, parking fee
D. Land fees, security fee, business
permit, parking fee

26. To get to school, Musa walks straight and then turns to

the left. What kind of turn does Musa make?

A. !
%
turn

B. !
#
turn

C. "
%
turn

D. Full turn

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27. The following is the price list for Furaha shop. Working Space

ITEM PRICE
A packet of milk sh 55
A loaf of bread sh 50
A packet of tea leaves sh 45

Masudi bought 2 packets of milk, a loaf of bread and a

packet of tea leaves. He gave the shopkeeper a sh 500
note. What was his balance?

A. sh 350
B. sh 295
C. sh 255
D. sh 205

28. Ann has some bananas. Tom has the same number of
bananas as Ann. Tesse has 3 bananas. Represent the
number of bananas Ann has as x. Form an expression to
show the number of bananas they have altogether.

A. x+x+3
B. x+3
C. 3x + 3
D. 3x

29. The following are properties of some shapes.

(i) All angles are equal.

(ii) Has 4 lines of symmetry.
(iii) All sides are equal.

Which shape is represented by the above properties?

A. A right angled triangle

B. An equilateral triangle
C. A square
D. A rectangle

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30. The table represents the number of new COVID-19 Working Space
cases in various counties on a certain day. The cases
for Nairobi county is not shown.

County Frequency
Nairobi -
Nakuru 135
Garissa 17
Kwale 8
Kisii 10

The total number of COVID-19 cases on that day was

656. What was the number of cases in Nairobi county on
that day?

A. 170
B. 386
C. 486
D. 1142

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