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KS1 SATs 2022 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)
Read aloud
Ajay counted 5 blue cars.
Kemi counted 14 red cars.
How many cars did they count altogether?
Ajay Kemi 5 blue cars 14 red cars (1 mark)
Question 2 (1 mark)
Read aloud
I am thinking of a two-digit number.
It is less than 20.
It is an even number.
What number could I be thinking of?
two-digit number
less than 20
even number
(1 mark)
Question 3 (1 mark)
Read aloud
What number is 1 less than 60?
60
(1 mark)
Question 4 (1 mark)
Read aloud
Look at the picture of the clock.
What time does the clock show?
I will read the times for you:
quarter to 9
quarter to 4
quarter past 9
quarter past 4
Diagram: A clock face. The long hand points to 9. The short hand is just before 4.
Tick one.
quarter to 9 square quarter to 4 square quarter past 9 square quarter past 4 square (1 mark)
Question 5 (1 mark)
Read aloud
Ben has 12 sweets.
Amy has 7 more sweets than Ben.
How many sweets does Amy have?
12
(1 mark)
Question 6 (1 mark)
Match each label to the correct part of the date.
One is done for you.
Diagram: The date Tuesday 28th April 2020 in four boxes along the top, labelled date. Below, four label boxes: day of the month, day of the week, year, month. A line joins 28th to day of the month.
(1 mark)
Question 7 (1 mark)
Put these numbers in order from smallest to largest.
One is done for you.
Diagram: The numbers 76, 84, 27, 45, 18 in a row, with 18 crossed out. Below, five boxes from smallest to largest; the first has 18 in it, the others are empty.
(1 mark)
Question 8 (1 mark)
Kemi has 25 red beads and 6 green beads.
How many beads does Kemi have altogether?
(1 mark)
Question 9 (1 mark)
Draw two lines to divide the square into quarters.
Diagram: A square with dots equally spaced along its sides: 5 dots along the top and bottom and 5 down each side (corners included).
(1 mark)
Question 10 (1 mark)
Ben has 20 stickers.
Sam has 30 stickers.
Ajay has 50 stickers.
How many stickers do they have altogether?
(1 mark)
Question 11 (1 mark)
Tick the two shapes that have the same number of sides.
Diagram: Five flat shapes, three along the top and two below. The top left shape has 6 straight sides. The top middle shape has 5 straight sides. The top right shape has 3 straight sides. The bottom left shape has 4 straight sides. The bottom right shape has 5 straight sides.
(1 mark)
Question 12 (1 mark)
This number sentence equals 18
boxed1 + boxed1boxed7 = boxed1boxed8
Now write a different number sentence that equals 18
Write one digit in each empty box.
boxedphantomX + boxed1boxedphantomX = boxed1boxed8
(1 mark)
Question 13 (1 mark)
This triangle has three sides of equal length.
Three pencils fit along one side of the triangle.
Diagram: A triangle with three equal sides. Three pencils lie end to end along its right-hand side, filling it exactly.
How many pencils fit around all three sides of the triangle?
(1 mark)
Question 14 (2 marks)
Here are two number patterns.
There are three missing numbers.
Write them in the empty boxes.
Diagram: Two number patterns sharing a corner box. Going down the column: an empty box, 15, 20, 25, then the corner box. Going right along the row: an empty box, 18, 21, 24, 27, then the corner box, which is empty. Arrows show the directions.
(2 marks)
Question 15 (1 mark)
Draw a line to match each measurement to the correct unit.
One is done for you.
Diagram: Four measurements on the left: the length of a pencil; the mass of a bag of potatoes; the capacity of a cup; the temperature outside. Four units on the right: kg, °C, cm, ml. A line joins the length of a pencil to cm.
(1 mark)
Question 16 (1 mark)
Complete the table to show how many tens and ones are in each number.
One is done for you.
Number Tens Ones 87 8 7 23 5 (1 mark)
Question 17 (1 mark)
Look at these numbers.
Diagram: 3 number cards in a row: 36, 42, 6.
Use these numbers to complete the number sentences below.
Use all three numbers each time.
boxedphantomXX + boxedphantomXX = boxedphantomXX
boxedphantomXX – boxedphantomXX = boxedphantomXX
(1 mark)
Question 18 (1 mark)
Ben has 40 cards.
He shares them equally between 4 party bags.
How many cards does he put in each bag?
(1 mark)
Question 19 (1 mark)
Two of these purses have the same amount of money.
Tick them.
Diagram: Four purses of coins. The top left purse: 20p, 20p, 10p. The top right purse: 10p, 20p, 20p, 10p. The bottom left purse: 10p, 5p, 50p. The bottom right purse: 5p, 20p, 5p, 10p, 10p.
(1 mark)
Question 20 (1 mark)
Circle the calculation with the largest answer.
5 + 2 10 – 3 9 – 1 4 + 1 (1 mark)
Question 21 (1 mark)
Draw a cross on the shape that does not have a line of symmetry.
Diagram: Five shapes, two along the top and three below. The top left shape is a rectangle. The top right shape is a hexagon. The bottom left shape is a triangle with two equal sides. The bottom middle shape is a circle. The bottom right shape is an L-shape.
(1 mark)
Question 22 (1 mark)
Diagram: One row of a wall: 5 bricks side by side.
A wall has 5 bricks in each row.
How many bricks are there in 6 rows?
(1 mark)
Question 23 (1 mark)
Look at these number cards.
Diagram: 5 number cards in a row: 20, 40, 50, 70, 90.
Choose three of the number cards to make this subtraction correct.
boxedphantomXX – boxedphantomXX = boxedphantomXX
(1 mark)
Question 24 (1 mark)
8 children are eating plums.
Each child eats 2 plums.
How many plums do they eat altogether?
(1 mark)
Question 25 (1 mark)
Sam puts 18 cards in rows.
He puts 3 cards in each row.
How many rows of cards are there?
(1 mark)
Question 26 (2 marks)
There are 43 people on a bus.
15 people get off.
8 people get on.
How many people are on the bus now?
Show your working
(2 marks)
Question 27 (1 mark)
Complete the number sentences.
boxed7 + 7 = 14
boxedphantomXX + 7 = 24
boxed27 + 7 = boxedphantomXX
boxedphantomXX + 7 = 44
(1 mark)
Question 28 (2 marks)
pencil rubber 15p 25p Kemi has £1
She buys a pencil and a rubber.
How much change does Kemi get from £1?
Show your working
(2 marks)
Question 29 (1 mark)
Diagram: 8 strawberries in two rows of 4.
Sita has 8 strawberries.
She eats dfracmathbf3mathbf4 of them.
How many does she eat?
(1 mark)
Question 30 (1 mark)
This table shows the shoe sizes of all the children in a class.
Shoe size Number of children 9 7 10 8 11 12 12 2 How many children have a shoe size of 10 or smaller?
(1 mark)
Question 31 (2 marks)
Kemi says,
“I multiply the two numbers on the bottom row.
The answer is on the top row.”
Diagram: A pyramid of boxes: 5 and 3 on the bottom row, 15 on the top.
Write the two missing numbers below.
Diagram: 2 pyramids of boxes. Left: 5 and 4 on the bottom row, an empty box on the top. Right: 10 and an empty box on the bottom row, 70 on the top.
(2 marks)
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.