Please write clearly in block capitals

Full Name __________________________________________________________

____

Class Stream __________________________________________________________

/
Date ____________________________________________________________
________

STAGE 6 MATHEMATICS PROFIENCY TEST

Paper 1 February 2025

Time allowed: 45 Minutes

Additional Materials
• Pencil, ruler, Tracing paper
Instructions
• Answer all questions.
• You must answer the questions in the space provided.
• You must show all your working is spaces provided.
• You are not allowed to use a calculator
• Use a blue or black pen to write your answers and a pencil to draw
Information
• The total number of marks available for this paper is 40.
• The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets.

Cambridge International School

 2

1 Work out.

2.8 × 4

[1]

2 Write 2.25 hours in hours and minutes.

hours minutes [1]

3 Work out.

64.23 ÷ 3

[1]

4 Here is a rectangle made from two triangles.

3 cm

5 cm

Work out the area of one of the triangles.

cm2 [1]
 3

5 Oliver finds the mass of four apples.

Here are his results in grams.

50 80 70 80

Find the mean mass of the apples.

grams [1]

6 Draw a ring around the number which equals 5 when rounded to the nearest
whole number.

5.55 5.19 4.49 4.34

[1]

7 Draw a line to match each fraction on the left to its simplest form.

1
4
5
20
1
2
2
10
1
5

[1]
 4

8 Here is a triangle.

43°

Not drawn to scale

33°

The size of two of the angles are marked.

Work out the size of the third angle.

° [1]

9 The temperature in London is 5°C.

The temperature in Moscow is −7°C.

(a) Write a number in the box to make this sentence correct.

London is °C warmer than Moscow.

[1]

(b) The temperature in London falls by 8°C.

Write the new temperature in London.

°C [1]
 5

10 Mike starts to write a sequence of numbers.

He starts at 1.7
He counts back in steps of 0.4

Here are the first 3 numbers in his sequence.

1.7 1.3 0.9

Complete the boxes to show the next 2 numbers in the sequence.

[1]

11 Draw a ring around each calculation where the answer is a square number.

5×2 10 × 10 3×3 3×7 1×2

[1]

12 Write a number in each box to complete the sentences.

All isosceles triangles have equal sides.

All scalene triangles have different angles.

All equilateral triangles have lines of symmetry.

[1]

13 Draw a ring around each prime number.

21 23 25 27 29 31

[1]
 6

14 Work out.

5 + 5 × 47 × 2

[1]

15 Carlos bakes some cakes.

For every 100 g of flour he uses, he needs 2 eggs.

He uses 1 kg of flour.

Write the number of eggs he needs.

[1]

16 Write a number in each box to make the statement correct.

1.5 + + = 6.6

[1]

17 Hassan has a bag of sweets.

He has 5 green sweets and all the other sweets are yellow.
He picks one sweet from the bag at random.
There is a 1 out of 4 chance of Hassan picking a green sweet.

Write the total number of sweets in the bag.

[1]
 7

18 Chen draws a quadrilateral on a grid of squares.

Yuri draws another quadrilateral using whole squares.

The perimeter of Yuri's quadrilateral is the same as the perimeter of Chen's
quadrilateral.
The area of Yuri’s quadrilateral is as small as possible.

Draw Yuri’s quadrilateral on the grid. [2]

 8

19 Write a number in each box to complete the calculations.

(a) 2468 × 35 =

[1]

(b) 455 ÷ 13 =

[1]
 9

20 Gabriella counts the number of students in the class for each of her different
subjects at school.
Here are her results.

Subject Number of students Subject Number of students

in the class in the class
Physics 21 Geography 24
Maths 23 History 24
English 22 Chemistry 23
Biology 22 Music 18
Spanish 18 Drama 24

(a) Complete the tally chart to show her results.

Number of students in the class Tally

17 – 18

19 – 20

21 – 22

23 – 24

[1]

(b) Angelique groups the same data using three equal intervals.
She starts to write the intervals in a table.

Number of students in the class

17 –

– 25

Complete the table. [1]

 10

21 Safia uses 27 small white unit cubes to build a larger solid cube.

Safia paints all the faces of the larger cube red.

(a) Write the number of small unit cubes that have three faces painted red.

[1]

(b) Write the number of small unit cubes that have no faces painted red.

[1]

22 Here are three numbers.

32 40 16

Write the largest number that is a factor of all these numbers.

[1]
 11

23 Here are some numbers.

333 543 738 354

Write each number in the correct place on the Venn diagram.

Divisible by 6 Divisible by 9

[2]
 12

24 (a) Pierre has some red balls and some white balls in a bag.

R represents the number of red balls.

W represents the number of white balls.

Write the value of W when R + W = 16 and R = 5

[1]

(b) Carlos has some green balls, some blue balls and some yellow balls in a
different bag.

G represents the number of green balls.

B represents the number of blue balls.
Y represents the number of yellow balls.

Write the number of green balls in the bag when B = Y and G = B + Y

and B = 5

[1]

25 The price of a car in December is $1000

The price of the car in January is 10% less than the price in December.
The price of the car in February is 20% more than the price in January.

Work out the price of the car in February.

Show your working.

$ [2]
 13

26 Here are three shapes drawn on a grid of squares.

These shapes can be combined to make a parallelogram.

There are two other different quadrilaterals that could be created using the same
three shapes.

(a) Draw one of these shapes on the grid.

[1]

(b) Write the name of the other possible shape.

[1]
 14

27 Rajiv says,

All decimal numbers

ending in a 5 round up
when rounded to the
nearest whole number.

Give an example to show that Rajiv is wrong.

[1]

28 Here are some quantities.

5 5
0.4 80%
8 6

Write a quantity in each box to make these statements correct.

Use each quantity once.

4
=
5

5
>
9

<

[2]
 15

29 Six children take tests in maths and English.

The results for each child are shown in bar charts.

Maths score English score

16 34
15 32
14
13 30
12 28
11
10 26
9 24
8
7 22
6 20
Ja a
ila

Sa ily
ira

N ia
i

Ja a
ila

Sa ily
ira

N ia
i
m

m
Ev

Ev
M

M
L

L
m

m
ao

ao
m

m
Eva says,
‘I scored twice as many marks in English than I did in maths.
This means I must be better at English than I am at maths.’

Tick () the box to show whether Eva is correct.

Yes No

Explain how you know.

[1]
 16

30 Here are some number cards.

1 2 4 6
Use each card once to make the calculation correct.

3× =

[1]