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KS1 SATs 2016 Paper 2: reasoning
31 questions · 35 marks. Every question from the paper, recreated, with the official mark scheme, an annotated worked solution and a shadow question (the same skill with new numbers). Open the paper in the Ultimate Exam Question Finder to present it, print it or build a set.
Question 1 (1 mark)
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Circle the correct number of tens and ones to make 63.
Diagram: Eight number cards showing 10 and eight showing 1, scattered on the page.
(1 mark)
Question 2 (1 mark)
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There are 11 girls and 12 boys in a class.
How many children are there in total?
boxedphantomXX children
(1 mark)
Question 3 (1 mark)
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0, 3, 6, 9…
Write the next two numbers in the sequence.
boxedphantomXX boxedphantomXX
(1 mark)
Question 4 (1 mark)
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Three numbers add up to 57.
The first number is 40.
The second number is 7.
What is the third number?
40 7 boxedphantomXX
(1 mark)
Question 5 (1 mark)
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Write down all the odd numbers between 20 and 30.
20 30
(1 mark)
Question 6 (1 mark)
Diagram: Four glasses the same size, A, B, C and D, with water in them. Glass A is filled to 3.2 of its 4 units of height; Glass B is filled to 1 of its 4 units of height; Glass C is filled to 2.2 of its 4 units of height; Glass D is filled to 1.6 of its 4 units of height.
Sort the glasses from least full to most full.
Diagram: Four boxes in a row, labelled least full under the first and most full under the last.
(1 mark)
Question 7 (1 mark)
Abdul: “I have 9 shells.”
Amy: “I have 3 more shells than Abdul.”
How many shells does Amy have?
(1 mark)
Question 8 (1 mark)
Match each coin to the correct box.
One has been done for you.
Diagram: Two boxes: "Less than 20p" on the left and "More than 20p" on the right. Between them, coins from top to bottom: 5p, £1, 2p, 10p, 50p. Lines join 5p to the Less than box.
(1 mark)
Question 9 (1 mark)
On these cards, the word should match the number.
One of these cards is wrong.
Draw a cross on the card that is wrong.
Diagram: Four cards, each with a number and a word: 15 fifteen, 19 ninety, 49 forty-nine, 51 fifty-one.
(1 mark)
Question 10 (1 mark)
Ben makes a tally chart of his toys.
Diagram: A tally chart with two columns, Toys in my box and Tally. dinosaur: tally marks for 3. dice: tally marks for 2. ball: tally marks for 6. teddy: tally marks for 1.
Tick one box below that shows all of Ben’s toys.
Diagram: Four boxes of toys in a row. The first box: 4 dinosaurs, 3 dice, 6 balls, 1 teddy. The second box: 3 dinosaurs, 2 dice, 5 balls, 1 teddy. The third box: 3 dinosaurs, 2 dice, 6 balls, 1 teddy. The fourth box: 3 dinosaurs, 2 dice, 5 balls, 2 teddies.
(1 mark)
Question 11 (1 mark)
There are 20 balloons.
7 balloons fly away.
How many balloons are left?
(1 mark)
Question 12 (1 mark)
Tick the two sentences that are correct.
Tick two.
A square has sides of equal length. square A square has curved sides. square A square has lines of symmetry. square A square has five sides. square (1 mark)
Question 13 (2 marks)
(a)
Write two numbers to make this calculation correct.
boxedphantomXX + boxedphantomXX = 19
(1 mark)
(b)
Now write three numbers to make this calculation correct.
boxedphantomXX + boxedphantomXX + boxedphantomXX = 19
(1 mark)
Question 14 (1 mark)
Abdul has some toy cars.
He gives half of them to Ben.
He has four toy cars left.
How many toy cars did Abdul start with?
(1 mark)
Question 15 (1 mark)
Sita has these coins in her purse.
Diagram: A purse with 6 coins in it: 20p, 50p, 10p, 10p, 1p, 2p.
How much money does she have?
(1 mark)
Question 16 (2 marks)
Write the correct number in each box.
Diagram: A number line with long marks labelled 40, 50 and 60, and a short mark halfway between each pair. Two boxes above the line have arrows pointing down to it: the first to the short mark between 40 and 50, the second to a point between the short mark after 50 and 60.
(a)
The box on the left.
(1 mark)
(b)
The box on the right.
(1 mark)
Question 17 (1 mark)
A
Diagram: A sphere.
B
Diagram: A cone.
C
Diagram: A cylinder.
D
Diagram: A triangular prism.
E
Diagram: A cube.
Which shape has exactly 5 faces?
Write the letter.
(1 mark)
Question 18 (1 mark)
Diagram: Six packs of pencils, labelled 10 pencils, 20 pencils, 5 pencils, 5 pencils, 10 pencils, 20 pencils.
Kemi and Ben share these pencils equally.
How many pencils do they each get?
(1 mark)
Question 19 (1 mark)
Miss Smith needs 30 apples for her class.
There are 5 apples in each bag.
How many bags of apples does Miss Smith need altogether?
(1 mark)
Question 20 (1 mark)
Amy has 21 counters altogether.
She has 14 counters in one hand.
Diagram: 14 counters in one hand.
How many counters does she have in the other hand?
(1 mark)
Question 21 (1 mark)
Draw lines to match the shapes to their names.
Diagram: Three shapes on the left, top to bottom: a shape with 3 straight sides, a shape with 5 straight sides, a shape with 8 straight sides. Four boxes on the right: pentagon, triangle, octagon, hexagon.
(1 mark)
Question 22 (1 mark)
Look at these four fruits.
apple 20p square pear 40p square banana 50p square orange 30p square Kemi buys three different fruits.
She spends exactly £1
Tick the three fruits that she buys.
(1 mark)
Question 23 (1 mark)
This turtle is rotated clockwise.
Diagram: A turtle facing up, an arrow, then the same turtle after it has turned clockwise: it now faces right.
How much is the turtle rotated?
Circle your answer.
quarter turn half turn three-quarter turn full turn (1 mark)
Question 24 (1 mark)
How much does the sugar weigh?
Diagram: The dial of a kitchen scale, in grams: 0 at the top, then 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 clockwise round the dial, with a mark every 50 grams. The pointer points to mark 3 clockwise from 0.
(1 mark)
Question 25 (1 mark)
Match the sums that have the same answer.
One is done for you.
Diagram: Four sums on the left: 20 + 8, 50 + 8, 80 + 8, 90 + 8. Four sums on the right: 30 + 28, 70 + 18, 10 + 18, 50 + 48. Lines join 20 + 8 to 10 + 18.
(1 mark)
Question 26 (1 mark)
One length of a swimming pool is 10 metres.
Abdul swims the length of the pool 4 times.
Abdul works out how many metres he swims altogether.
Circle the two calculations that Abdul can use.
10 + 4
4 × 10
10 + 10 + 10 + 10
4 + 4 + 4 + 4
(1 mark)
Question 27 (2 marks)
Shade the fractions of the shapes.
Diagram: Three shapes in a row. A rhombus split by its two diagonals into 4 equal triangles, labelled Shade 1/2. A plus-shaped cross split through its middle into 4 equal parts, labelled Shade 3/4. A trapezium split into 3 equal triangles, labelled Shade 1/3.
(2 marks)
Question 28 (2 marks)
There are 40 crayons in a box.
Sam takes 17 crayons.
Kemi takes 10 crayons.
How many crayons are left?
Show your working
(2 marks)
Question 29 (1 mark)
Here are some signs.
> < = Write the correct sign in each box.
10 + 5 boxedphantomXX 10 × 5
2 × 6 boxedphantomXX 6 + 6
(1 mark)
Question 30 (1 mark)
Ben has 75 cherries.
He eats 28 of them.
How many cherries does he have left?
(1 mark)
Question 31 (1 mark)
Tick the clock face that shows ten past twelve.
Diagram: A clock showing 10:00.
Diagram: A clock showing 12:10.
Diagram: A clock showing 2:00.
Diagram: A clock showing 12:50.
(1 mark)
Questions Crown copyright (Standards and Testing Agency), recreated by Mr Barton Maths for teaching. Each question is credited to its board, series, paper and number.