COMPETENCE BASED CURRICULUM

GRADE 6 - 2025

CODE 001
CBC ASSESSMENT
FIRST TRIAL

PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION

ASSESSMENT

MATHEMATICS
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INSTRUCTIONS TO LEARNER’S (Please read these instructions

carefully)
1. You have been given this question booklet and a separate answer sheet. The
question booklet contains 30 questions.
Answer all the 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 ordinary pencil.

5. Confirm that the answer sheet that you have been provided with has the following:
YOURAS
SESSME
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NUMBER
YOURNA
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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 question 1 - 30, four answers are given. The choices are lettered A,
B, C, D. In each case only ONE of the four choices is correct. Choose the correct
answer.
9. On the answer sheet, show the correct answer 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: 335 x 24
A.8004
B. 8400
C. 8040
D. 80040
The correct answer is C (8040)
On the answer sheet:
In the set of boxes numbered 11, draw a dark line inside the box with letter C printed 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.
1. During Elnino rains, three A. 456
hundred and seventy three B. 280
thousand five hundred and three C. 222
people were displaced. What is D. 5275
the number written in symbols?
A. 373503
B. 307353
C. 373533
D. 373053

2. Angela was adding

numbers. Which number
should she add to 1987 to
get 2000?
A. 3
B. 23
C.13
D. 17

3. The following are years in

which five church members
were born. Arrange the years of
the church members from the
oldest to the youngest in age?
1977, 1987, 1965, 1990, 1956
A. 1956, 1965, 1977, 1987,
1990
B. 1990, 1987, 1977, 1965,
1956
C. 1987, 1990, 1977, 1965,
1956
D. 1956, 1990, 1987, 1977,
1965

4. A pilot filled his plane with

780986 litres of fuel. Round
off the amount of fuel to the
nearest ten thousand?
A. 780000
B. 780900
C. 781000
D. 800000

5. The following are numbers of

different tools in four
households. Which of the
numbers is divisible by both 2
and 10?
6. Kiama is 18cm tall. Morris is
24cm tall. What is the 9. Which is the next number in
greatest common divisor of the pattern below? 3742, 3542,
the two numbers? 3342, _____
A.8 A.3142
B.9 B.2942
C.6 C.3242
D.72 D.3042

7. A food store had 673493kg of 10. The difference between two

rice and 37605kg of wheat. How numbers is 4670. The largest
many kilograms were in the store number is 6807. What is the
altogether? other number?
A.710098kg A.11467
B.701098kg B.11567
C.700098kg C.2227
D.711098kg D.2137

8. Amollo bought a laptop 11. A learner had two boxes of

worth biscuits. Each box had 1112
sh. 56928. What is the biscuits. How many biscuits
place value of digit 5 in did he have?
the number? A.1112
A.Thousands B.1114
B.Hundreds C.2224
C.Ten thousands D.1224
D.Hundred thousands

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 12. A tank had 848 litres of B.
petrol. A quarter of the 4
petrol was sold. How 4
many litres of petrol were C.
sold?
6
A.212L
B.136L 4
D. 12
C.560L
D.424L

13. The price of a blanket

is Sh. 1 700. How much
would six such
blankets cost?
A.Sh. 1706
B.Sh. 10100
C.Sh. 6200
D.Sh. 10200

14. A school has 13

classrooms. Each
classroom has 36
learners. If the school
has 28 teachers, what is
the total population in
the school altogether?
A.49
B.77
C.468
D.496

15. There were 720 eggs in

a tray. The eggs were
shared equally among
20 people. How many
eggs did each person
get?
A.22
B.36
C.26
D.24

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16. Which fraction is equal
to 3 ?
1
A.
2
1
17. The figure below shows an B.11.99L
angle drawn by a learner. C.3.27L
Measure the angle. D.11.33L

19. The distance from school

to the nearby church is
8km 420m. What is the
distance in kilometres?
A.8420km
B.8.42km
C.84.2km
A.47° D.0.842km
B.157°
C.60° 20. A pole measures 26m. How
D.33° many poles can be cut
from a log of tree
18. There are 7.63 litres of measuring 4030m?
porridge in a jerrican. A baby A.15
drunk 4.36 litres. How many B.150
litres of porridge remained? C.155
A.3.33L D.1550

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21. What is the area of the figure 1 4
below? A. 3 B. 6
5 6
7cm C. 6 D. 6

12cm
A. 19cm² B.
24cm²
C. 14cm² D.
84cm²

22. How many cubes were

used to make the figure
below?

A. 25 B. 22
C. 32 D. 40

23. A water tank can hold 161

litres of water. How much
water does it hold in
milliliters?
A.16100ml
B.161000ml
C.16.1ml
D.0.161ml

24. An empty truck weighs

17067kg. If it is loaded, it
weighs 37674kg. What is
the mass of the load?
A.54741kg
B.55831kg
C.20613kg
D.20607kg

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25. Jane ate 3 of bread and
gave the
remainder to her younger
sister. What fraction did she
give her sister?
26. Sean ran for 36 minutes 24 U
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seconds. Raymond ran for
21 minutes
S
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34 seconds. What is
the difference in the P Q
time they took? A. WT B. PR
A.14 minutes 50 seconds C. QU D. SR
B.15 minutes 10 seconds 29. Which of the following
C.14 minutes 90 seconds statements is true about the
D.16 minutes 50 seconds figure shown below?

27. Marvin had the budget

below.
- Cooking oil for Sh 270.
- Water for Sh 100.
A.All sides are equal.
- Baking powder for Sh
B.It has 3 lines of
25.
symmetry.
- Fruits for Sh 275.
C.It has two right angles.
- Yams for Sh 175.
D.It is a three sided figure.
How much did she
spend? 30. Grade 6 learners recorded the
A. Sh 755 B. Sh 845 numbers of family members as
C. Sh 965 D. Sh 675 shown below:
2, 7, 4, 2, 6, 8, 3, 2, 7, 5, 9, 2,
28. A teacher drew the diagram 3.
below. Which of the following Which number is most
is a vertical line? common?
W V A. 6 B. 7
C. 4 D. 2

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