QUESTIONS

1. The following are functions of parts of the digestive system:
   1. Absorption of water and mineral salts. 
   2. Absorption of digested food into the body.
   3. Digestion of proteins.
   4. Food mixes with salive
   5. Food is chewed using teeth.
      Which of the following pairs shows the functions of the mouth? 
      1. i, v
      2. iv, ii
      3. ii, iii
      4. iv, v
2. Which one of the following types of teeth is correctly matched with its function? 
   1. Canines - tearing 
   2. Premolars — cutting 
   3. Incisors - grinding 
   4. Molars biting
3. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of plants? Plants 
   1. reproduce. 
   2. feed. 
   3. move from place to place. 
   4. grow.
4. Which one of the following lists consists of substances in the same state of matter? 
   1. Smoke, chalk dust, charcoal. 
   2. Tea, water, porridge. 
   3. Ink, gas, stone. 
   4. Pencil, saliva, desk.
5. Study the diagram below.
   
   The bottle tops are 
   1. sinking.
   2. sinkers
   3. drowning.
   4. floating.
6. Grade 6 learners set up the experiment as shown below.
   
   The process taking place at X is called 
   1. freezing 
   2. condensation. 
   3. evaporation.
   4. melting.
7. Which one of the following is not a part of the breathing system? 
   1. Oesophagus. 
   2. Trachea. 
   3. Bronchioles. 
   4. Air sacs.
8. The diagram below shows a root type seen by Grade 6 pupils during nature walk.
   
   The plant they uprooted was likely to be 
   1. sugarcane. 
   2. cowpeas. 
   3. maize. 
   4. grass.
9. Which blood vessel transports deoxygenated blood from the rest of the body to the heart? 
   1. Pulmonary artery. 
   2. Pulmonary vein. 
   3. Venacava. 
   4. Aorta.
10. All the following animals are not invertebrates except a 
    1. toad.
    2. lizard. 
    3. snail.
    4. snake.
11. Which of the following lists has useful fungi only? 
    1. Mushroom, puffball. 
    2. Dandruff, yeast.
    3. Penicillium, toadstool. 
    4. Yeast, mushroom.
12. A player kicked a ball hard up. She saw the ball coming back to the ground. This was due to 
    1. nature of the weather. 
    2. lack of wind. 
    3. force of gravity. 
    4. sunshine intensity.
13. What do we use to identify acids and bases?
    1. Litmus paper. 
    2. Aluminium foil.
    3. Oiled paper.
    4. Transparent narrow bottles.
14. Heat transfer in gases and liquids is called
    1. evaporation.
    2. convection.
    3. radiatiul.
    4. conduction.
15. Which of the following shapes of the moon is called yiubous?
    
    
16. The type of soil that makes longest ribbons
    1. is the best for construction. 
    2. has the least air spaces. 
    3. is called loam. 
    4. does not crack when dry.
17. The most advanced type of soil erosion is
    1. rill erosion.
    2. sheet erosion.
    3. gulley erosion.
    4. splash erosion.
18. Which one of the following crops is the odd one out?
    1. Pumpkin. 
    2. Carrot.
    3. Watermelon.
    4. Cucurber.
19. Which of the following gardening practices conserves soil moisture? 
    1. Weeding 
    2. Pruning
    3. Digging
    4. Mulching
20. Which of the following animals makes underground holes and eats our tuber crops?
    1. Weaverbird. 
    2. Monkey. 
    3. Mole. 
    4. Mongoose.
21. Which of the following food crops is not indigenous?
    1. Millet.
    2. Rice.
    3. Yarns.
    4. Cassava
22. Which of the following materials cannot be used to prepare compost manure?
    1. Banana pools. 
    2. Maize stalk. 
    3. Plastic bottles. 
    4. Farmyard manure.
23. Which of the following animals offers Services only? 
    1. Hen.
    2. Ox.
    3. Camel
    4. Cat.
24. The ability of soil to regain its original fertility is called soil 
    1. recovery.
    2. erosion. 
    3. profile.
    4. acidity
25. Which of the following can be used for mulching?
    1. Polythene papers. 
    2. Old rags.
    3. Pieces of iron sheets.
    4. Dry leaves or grass.
26. The following are changes that take place during adolescence:
    1. Production of sex cells.
    2. Broadening of hips.
    3. Deepening of voice. 
    4. Increase in weight and height
    5. Menstruation.
       Which of the changes above take place in both adolescent boys and girls? 
       1. ii, v
       2. i, iv
       3. iii, iv
       4. ii, iv
27. Good grooming helps us to look 
    1. neat.
    2. rough.
    3. naughty.
    4. desperate.
28. Perfumes and make-ups are examples of
    1. needs. 
    2. lotions. 
    3. accessories. 
    4. cosmetics.
29. Cancer, obesity and hypertesion are all
    1. contagious diseases. 
    2. non-communicable diseases. 
    3. communicable diseases.
    4. nutritional deficiency diseases.
30. Consumption of too much sugary foods can lead to 
    1. asthma 
    2. epilepsy 
    3. obesity 
    4. diabetes
31. . Which one of the following is not an important factor to consider when choosing shoes? 
    1. Size
    2. Colour 
    3. Quantity
    4. Comfort
32. Study the diagram below.
    
    Which nutrients do we get from the above стор?
    1. Proteins 
    2. Cereals 
    3. Carbohydrates 
    4. Vitamins
33. Which one of the following is not a reason for laundry work? To 
    1. improve creases. 
    2. make the garments neat. 
    3. remove dirt and stains. 
    4. kill germs.
34. Study the care label below.
    
    What does the care label above mean? Do not 
    1. use warm water. 
    2. iron. 
    3. use cold water. 
    4. wring.
35. Using too much of body lotion frequently is one way of 
    1. staying neat. 
    2. using cosmetics well. 
    3. misusing cosmetics. 
    4. misusing accessories.
36. A light spear designed for throwing is called a
    1.  javelin. 
    2. bat. 
    3. cross bar. 
    4. shot put.
37. Out of the following sports activities, choose the odd one out. 
    1. Backward roll. 
    2. Head stand. 
    3. Soccer.
    4. Hand stand.
38. Legal touches is a sports activity applied in
    1. softball. 
    2. kabaddi. 
    3. tag ruby. 
    4. volleyball.
39. Scissor technique is a sports activity associated with
    1. high jump. 
    2. long jump. 
    3. shot put. 
    4. standing discuss.
40. The following diagram shows a high jump facility.
    
    The bar marked X is called 
    1. an upright bar. 
    2. a straight bar. 
    3. a crosss bar. 
    4. a horizontal bar.
41. All the following soccer players do not need gloves except the 
    1. midfielder.
    2. defender. 
    3. forward player.
    4. goal keeper.
42. Which of the following is not a partner work in rope jump? 
    1. Wounded duck. 
    2. Face to face. 
    3. Side to side.
    4. Back to back.
43. How many players make one handball team? 
    1. 11
    2. 7 
    3. 5
    4. 6
44. Which of the following is not an element of a good pass in handball? 
    1. Accuracy. 
    2. It should be fast. 
    3. It should be tactful. 
    4. It should be high
45. Receiving the ball passed by a partner in handball is called 
    1. tackling.
    2. dribbling. 
    3. blocking.
    4. catching.
46. Below is a volleyball player.
    
    The volleyball technique demonstrated above is called
    1. the dig. 
    2. under arm serve. 
    3. receiving
    4. volleying.
47. All the following are outfield players in softball except the 
    1. right fielder. 
    2. left fielder. 
    3. first baseman. 
    4. center fielder.
48. Three of the following equipment are used in rugby except 
    1. a tag belt. 
    2. training cones. 
    3. a rugby ball 
    4. discs.
49. Which of the following is not a type of bounce in rope work?
    1. Single bounce. 
    2. Double bounce. 
    3. One foot bounce. 
    4. Two feet bounce.
50. All the following can be found in a first aid box except 
    1. a stapler. 
    2. a bandage.
    3. painkillers.
    4. an antiseptic.

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1. What is six million three hundred and eight thousand four hundred and sixty eight in symbols? 
   1. 6308468 
   2. 6380468 
   3. 6308468 
   4. 6387468
2. How many groups of fifties are there in the total value of digit 8 in the number 689 732? 
   1. 80000 
   2. 1600 
   3. 800 
   4. 16000
3. What is 54.76832 rounded off to the nearest thousandths? 
   1. 54.769 
   2. 54.768 
   3. 54.770 
   4. 54.7680
4. Jane expressed 0.16 as a percentage. What answer did she get?
   1. 0.61%
   2. 160%
   3. 1.6%
   4. 16%
5. Convert ⁵¹/₆, into a mixed number
   1.  8¹/₂ 
   2. 6³/₈
   3. 8³/₆
   4. 8²/₃
6. A tailor made a mat which was in the shape of a square. The length of the mat was 1m 20cm. Find the perimeter of the mat. 
   1. 2m 40cm 
   2. 1m 20cm
   3. 14m 400cm
   4. 4m 80cm
7. The following are equivalent fractions. Which digit is missing ⁴/  = ²⁸/₄₉ 
   1. 49 
   2. 7 
   3. 32 
   4. 343
8. Estimate the product of the following numbers by first rounding off each one of them to the nearest 100.
   384 x 51 
   1. 19 600 
   2. 30 000 
   3. 40 000 
   4. 19584
9. The distance from Saumu's home to school is 1km 150m. She walks to school and goes back home daily. What distance does she cover from Tuesday to Friday? 
   1. 4km 600m 
   2. 5km 750m 
   3. 9km 200m 
   4. 11km 500m
10. Find the area of the figure below
    
    
    1. 240cm²
    2. 3200cm² 
    3. 4000cm² 
    4. 4800cm²
11. The rectangle below has a perimeter of 46m. The length is 15m. What is the width?
    
    
    1. 30m 
    2. 16m 
    3. 8m 
    4. 3m
12. The area of a square garden is 4096m². Calculate its perimeter 
    1. 256m 
    2. 1024m
    3. 128m 
    4. 64m
13. What is the total value of digit 8 in the number 986425? 
    1. 80000 
    2. 8000
    3. 800 
    4. 8
14. A bag weighs 102kg. How many tonnes will 120 such bags weigh?
    1. 12240
    2. 122.4 
    3. 12.24
    4. 1.224
15. Work out; 2 x 18 + 7 =
    1. 252 
    2. 50 
    3. 43
    4. 27
16. Work out; Sh         Cts
                     325        40
                   - 150        80
                                        
    1. sh 175   60 cts 
    2. Sh 174  60 cts 
    3. Sh 175  20cts
    4. Sh 476  20cts
17. Round off 5612 to the nearest tens. 
    1. 5612
    2. 5600 
    3. 5610
    4. 5700
18.  Arrange the fractions ³/₄ , ⁷/₁₁ , ⁵/₆ and from the largest to the smallest. 
    1.  ⁵/₆ , ³/₄ , ⁷/₁₁
    2. ³/₄ , ⁷/₁₁ , ⁵/₆
    3.  ⁷/₁₁ , ³/₄ , ⁵/₆
    4. ⁷/₁₁ , ⁵/₆ , ³/₄ 
19. A section of a road is 14km 23m long. Part of the road 8km 30m long was tarmacked. What section of the road remained untarmacked? 
    1. 6km 13m 
    2. 5km 93m 
    3. 5km 993m 
    4. 5km 9993m
20. Find the area of the figure below
    
    
    1. 37m² 
    2. 70m²
    3. 120m²
    4. 80m²
21. The mass of three students was 37.34kg, 45.01kg and 52.26kg. What is the average mass of the three students? 
    1. 134.61kg 
    2. 44.87kg
    3. 403.83kg
    4. 67.305kg
22. Work out; 0.87 +23.876 + 12 =
    1. 35.746
    2. 36.746
    3. 35.646
    4. 36.646
23. Convert 456 metres into kilometres.
    1. 45600km 
    2. 456000km 
    3. 0.456km 
    4. 4.508km
24. A tank had ²/₃ litres of water. ³/₅, litres were used for cleaning farm tools. How many litres of water remained in the tank? 
    1. ²/₂₅ L
    2. ¹/₁₅ L
    3. ²³/4₅ L 
    4. ²/₅ L
25. What is the least number that can be divided by both 28 or 12 without a remainder?
    1. 48 
    2. 4 
    3. 84 
    4. 36
26. What are the first three common divisors of 12 and 16? 
    1. 1, 2, 4 
    2. 12, 16, 24 
    3. 12, 24, 32 
    4. 16, 32, 48
27. What is the name of the angle drawn below?
    
    
    1. Right angle
    2. Acute angle
    3. Reflex angle
    4. Obtuse angle
28. Amos had 50 marbles. He gave Ann 26 marbles. Calculate the percentage of the marbles that he remained with? 
    1. 48% 
    2. 52% 
    3. 24% 
    4. 62%
29. Jael a grade five pupil worked out the value of X in the equation below. Which answer did she get if she worked it out correctly? 4x + 2 = 10 
    1. 3 
    2. 8 
    3. 2 
    4. 12
30. Find the square root of 7¹/₉
    1. ⁴/₉
    2. 3⁵/9
    3. 50⁴⁶/₈₁
    4. 2²/₃

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1. A Grade 6 girl added seven thousand, eight hundred and ninety six to nine thousand five hundred and seventy nine. What was her answer?
   1. 1 683
   2. 17 475
   3. 1 680 
   4. 17 465
2. In the number 879 350, which digit is in the hundreds of thousands place value?
   1. Nine.
   2. Three.
   3. Seven. 
   4. Eight.
3. In a game reserve, the number of wildebeests was 9 026. What is the total value of the underlined digit in the number? 
   1. Hundreds 
   2. 0
   3. 20
   4. 90
4. Work out: √961
   1. 31
   2. 14
   3. 13
   4. 26
5. A group of learners visited a farm near their school. The farmer gave them 1 080kg of animal feed to share equally among 120 cows. How many kilograms did each cow get? 
   1. 11
   2. 8
   3. 9
   4. 7
6. Work out:
   36 + 12 ÷ 3 - 2 x 11
   1. 23
   2. 14
   3. 81
   4. 18
7. During a Home Science lesson, a Grade 6 learner mixed 3¹/₅, litres of milk with 6²/₃, litres of water to prepare tea. What was the total mixture?
   1. 9¹⁵/₁₇
   2. 9¹²/₁₃
   3. 9¹³/₁₅
   4. 9¹¹/₁₅
8. Express ³/₅ as a decimal. 
   1. 3.5
   2. 0.6 
   3. 5:3
   4. 6.0
9. Milimani Primary School has 566 learners. If each learner brought 11 seedlings for a county project, how many seedlings were brought altogether?
   1. 577 
   2. 6 262 
   3. 6 226
   4. 2 662
10. A school fenced its compound using 6 504 posts. What is the number of posts rounded off to the nearest thousand? 
    1. 6 000 
    2. 6 500 
    3. 7 500 
    4. 7 000
11. Find the volume of a cube whose length is 9cm.
    1. 81cm³
    2. 27cm³ 
    3. 729cm³
    4. 719cm³
12. Sammy had a 38 000cm long rope. What is the length of the rope in metres?
    1. 380m
    2. 3 800m
    3. 38m 
    4. 3.8m
13. One side of a square table mat measures 35cm. Work out the area of the table mat.
    1. 140 cm²
    2. 1 225 cm²
    3. 70 cm²
    4. 1 215 cm²
14. How many half kilograms are there in 12kg?
    1. 6
    2. 10 
    3. 48
    4. 24
15. Work out:
    Minutes Seconds
        17          26
        -8           45
                              
    1. 8 minutes    41 seconds 
    2. 9 minutes    41 seconds 
    3. 8 minutes    81 seconds 
    4. 9 minutes    81 seconds 
16. After a. athletic competition, 56 litres of Juice was prepared for de athletes. If they drank 39 litres of the juice, how much juice remained in millilitres?
    1. 17 ml
    2. 170 ml
    3. 17 000 ml
    4. 1 700 ml
17. What is the value of
    7√ 15km 400m?
    1. 1km 200m
    2. 2km 200m
    3. 2km 100m
    4. 1km 100m
18. The distance round a piece of land is 2km 670m. A farmer went fuur die land two times. What distance did he cover?
    1. 4km 1 340m
    2. 5km 340m
    3. 4km 340m
    4. 1km 340m
19. During Corona virus pandemic, a hotel keeper filled 3 drums with hand washing sanitizer. Each drum had 53 litres 200ml. How much sanitizer was this altogether?
    1. 158L 500ml
    2. 159L 600ml
    3. 158L 1 600ml
    4. 159L 1 500ml
20. Munaa weighs 26kg while Kanaa weighs 23kg. What is the difference of their masses in grams?
    1. 49kg
    2. 49 000g
    3. 3g
    4. 3 000g
21. Mr Hisabati drew an angle like the one shown below.
    
    What is the name of the angle?
    1. Obtuse angle. 
    2. Reflex angle.
    3. Acute angle.
    4. Right angle.
22. Lemayian drew a figure like the one below on a flash card.
    
    What did Lemayian draw? 
    1. Perpendicular lines. 
    2. Parallel lines. 
    3. Vertical lines 
    4. Horizontal lines.
23. Which one of the following statements is true? 
    1. A right angle is greater than an obtuse angle. 
    2. An obtuse angle is smaller than a reflex angle. 
    3. An acute angle is equal to 90º
    4. A right angle is smaller than an acute angle.
24. Boyeta had g toy cars. He was given 3 more by his uncle. He now had a total of 5 toy cars. How many toy cars did he have before? 
    1. 7 
    2. 1
    3. 8
    4. 2
25. There are b cartons in a store. Each carton has 4 pawpaws. If all the pawpaws are 16, which one of the following equations represents this information? 
    1. 16-4=b 
    2. 4x b= 16
    3. 4 + 16 = b 
    4. b-4 = 16
26. There are x male teachers in a school.The total number of male and female teachers is 17. How many female teachers are there? 
    1. 17x
    2. x+17 
    3. 17- x
    4. 34 - x 

The table below shows the number of patients who visited Tibapoa dispensary for Covid-19 vaccination

27. How many children were taken to the hospital on Wednesday? 
    1. 56
    2. 19
    3. 12
    4. 30
28. How many more men than women were in the facility on Friday?
    1. 44
    2. 29
    3. 25
    4. 15
29. On which day was the number of men least?
    1. Thursday
    2. Wednesday
    3. Friday
    4. Monday
30. How many children were taken to the hospital that week?
    1. 193
    2. 194
    3. 121
    4. 508

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