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KS1 SATs 2018 Paper 2: reasoning
32 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)
Read aloud
What is 20 add 2 add 2?
20 2 2
(1 mark)
Question 2 (1 mark)
Read aloud
I am thinking of a number.
It has 4 tens and 2 ones.
Write my number in the box.
(1 mark)
Question 3 (1 mark)
Read aloud
Look at the circle.
Part of the circle is shaded.
Tick the fraction below that shows the shaded part of the circle.
Diagram: A circle split into 3 equal parts. One part is shaded.
1/2 square 1/4 square 1/3 square 3/4 square (1 mark)
Question 4 (1 mark)
Read aloud
There are 13 marbles in a jar.
The jar can hold 20 marbles.
How many more marbles can fit in the jar?
Diagram: The number 13, and a jar with a label that says 20 marbles.
(1 mark)
Question 5 (1 mark)
Read aloud
Write the same number in both boxes to make the multiplication correct.
boxedphantomXX × boxedphantomXX = 25
(1 mark)
Question 6 (1 mark)
Diagram: Four towers standing on the same line, named Tower A, Tower B, Tower C and Tower D from left to right. Tower A is 6.4 units tall, Tower B is 4.6 units tall, Tower C is 9 units tall, Tower D is 7.4 units tall.
Put the four towers in order from tallest to shortest.
One is done for you.
Diagram: Four boxes in a row, the first labelled tallest and the last labelled shortest. Box 1: empty, Box 2: D, Box 3: empty, Box 4: empty.
(1 mark)
Question 7 (1 mark)
Diagram: A long rectangle, tilted, with a circle drawn inside it near one end.
Tick the names of the two shapes in this picture.
Tick two.
triangle square square square rectangle square circle square hexagon square (1 mark)
Question 8 (1 mark)
Shade 3/4 of this shape.
Diagram: A rectangle split into 4 equal parts side by side.
(1 mark)
Question 9 (1 mark)
Put a tick below the fourth black bead.
Diagram: A row of 12 beads. From the left: black, white, black, black, white, white, black, white, black, black, white, black.
(1 mark)
Question 10 (1 mark)
Sita puts 10 balls in each bag.
Diagram: 10 bags in two rows (5 then 5). Each bag holds 10 balls.
How many balls are in the bags altogether?
(1 mark)
Question 11 (1 mark)
Kemi goes to four clubs each week.
Which club lasts the longest?
Circle it.
Diagram: Four cards in two rows. Swimming: 45 minutes. Art: 2 hours. Music: 75 minutes. Drama: 1 hour.
(1 mark)
Question 12 (1 mark)
Ajay’s plant was 11 centimetres tall.
It grows 7 centimetres taller.
How tall is the plant now?
(1 mark)
Question 13 (1 mark)
Amy makes 25 using different shapes for tens and ones.
Diagram: 2 triangles and 5 squares.
Amy makes a new number.
Diagram: 3 triangles and 4 squares.
What is Amy’s new number?
(1 mark)
Question 14 (1 mark)
The chart shows the number of stickers four children have.
Diagram: A chart with one row for each child and one box for each sticker. Kemi: 6 boxes. Amy: 3 boxes. Ben: 7 boxes. Sam: 2 boxes.
Kemi has more stickers than Sam.
How many more?
(1 mark)
Question 15 (1 mark)
A classroom has 6 tables.
Each table has 5 children sitting at it.
Complete the number sentence to show how many children there are altogether.
boxedphantomXX × boxedphantomXX = boxedphantomXX children
(1 mark)
Question 16 (1 mark)
A shopkeeper has 20 fish and 5 fish bowls.
He puts the same number of fish in each bowl.
How many fish go in each bowl?
(1 mark)
Question 17 (1 mark)
Tick the shape that does not have a line of symmetry.
Diagram: Six outline shapes in two rows of three. top left: a heart; top middle: a shield; top right: a gingerbread man; bottom left: a five-pointed star; bottom middle: a house with a chimney on one side of the roof; bottom right: a vase.
(1 mark)
Question 18 (1 mark)
Ajay has 20p in 2p coins.
How many 2p coins does Ajay have?
Diagram: A 2p coin.
(1 mark)
Question 19 (1 mark)
Diagram: Number cards: 5, 40, 8.
Use only these numbers to make a different number sentence each time.
One is done for you.
boxed5 × boxed8 = boxed40
boxedphantomXX × boxedphantomXX = boxedphantomXX
boxedphantomXX ÷ boxedphantomXX = boxedphantomXX
(1 mark)
Question 20 (1 mark)
Here is part of a number line.
Write the correct number in the box.
Diagram: Part of a number line with 5 equally spaced marks. The first mark is labelled 70 and the last 90. There is an empty box above mark 4.
(1 mark)
Question 21 (1 mark)
One plane lands every minute.
How many planes land in 1 hour?
(1 mark)
Question 22 (2 marks)
Use four different number cards to complete the number sentences below.
Diagram: Number cards: 5, 15, 25, 35, 45, 55.
boxedphantomXX + boxedphantomXX = boxed60
boxedphantomXX + boxedphantomXX = boxed60
(2 marks)
Question 23 (1 mark)
Sam has 55p.
Ben has 10p less than Sam.
Tick the coins that Ben has.
Diagram: Six coins: 20p, 10p, 10p, 5p, 10p, 20p.
(1 mark)
Question 24 (2 marks)
biscuits cakes 20p each 25p each Sam buys 3 biscuits and 1 cake.
How much does Sam spend altogether?
Show your working
(2 marks)
Question 25 (1 mark)
Amy buys one pear for 35p.
She pays with a 50p coin.
Diagram: A 50p coin.
How much change does Amy get?
(1 mark)
Question 26 (1 mark)
Kemi makes a pattern with sticks.
Some are long and some are short.
She writes a number pattern on the sticks.
Diagram: 9 sticks in a row, short and long by turns, starting with a short one. The numbers on them, from the left: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45.
Write the number that will be on the next short stick.
(1 mark)
Question 27 (1 mark)
Look at the thermometers.
Diagram: 2 thermometers, each with a scale from 0 to 25 °C marked every 5 degrees. playground: the liquid reaches 5 °C. classroom: the liquid reaches 20 °C.
The temperature on the playground is lower than the temperature in the classroom.
How much lower?
(1 mark)
Question 28 (1 mark)
Write the same number in both boxes to make the sum correct.
boxedphantomXX + boxedphantomXX = 26
(1 mark)
Question 29 (1 mark)
Draw a rectangle 7cm long and 3cm wide.
Use a ruler.
Diagram: A grid of 1 cm squares, 9 squares across and 9 down.
(1 mark)
Question 30 (2 marks)
Ben has 7 bags of grapes.
Each bag has 10 grapes.
Ben gives 25 grapes to his friends.
How many grapes does he have left?
Show your working
(2 marks)
Question 31 (1 mark)
Write the missing number in the box.
13 + 6 = 10 + boxedphantomXX
(1 mark)
Question 32 (1 mark)
Write two numbers that are greater than 20 to make this subtraction correct.
boxedphantomXX – boxedphantomXX = 2
(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.