Grade 6 KSA math by domain, weighted as Kentucky's blueprint weights it: the number system first, then expressions and equations.
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The real test: KSA math, grade 6
Questions
40, on each of 5 test forms: 27 to 32 multiple choice, 2 to 4 short answer and 1 or 2 extended response; the rest are multiple select or technology enhanced.
Time
120 minutes, in two parts. Part A is the non-calculator part.
Points
Multiple choice 1 point; multiple select 2; short answer 2; extended response 4; technology enhanced 1 or 2 in mathematics.
Domains
The Number System 30 to 35% of items; Expressions and Equations 25 to 30%; Geometry 15 to 20%; Statistics and Probability 15 to 20%; Ratios and Proportional Rel
Calculator
30 to 35% of the items in grades 6 and 7 are non-calculator. In the calculator part an on-screen scientific calculator is available.
When
In spring. Students took the 2026 tests between April 13 and June 5.
A 4-pack of juice costs $3.40 and a 12-pack of the same juice costs $9.60. Which is the lower price for one bottle?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Ratios and Proportional Relationships; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.RP.3
A creek flows 15 feet each second. At that rate, how many feet does it flow in 1 minute?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Ratios and Proportional Relationships; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.RP.3
A horse farm has 10 foals and 16 mares. What is the ratio of foals to mares in lowest terms?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Ratios and Proportional Relationships; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.RP.1
A pancake recipe uses 3 cups of flour for every 2 cups of milk. A table of equal ratios lists the flour as 3, 6, 9 and 15 cups. How much milk goes with 15 cups of flour?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Ratios and Proportional Relationships; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.RP.3
A water pump fills a tank with 105 gallons in 7 minutes at a steady rate. What is the unit rate?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Ratios and Proportional Relationships; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.RP.2
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The Number System 12
A board 5/8 yard long is cut into strips that are each 1/16 yard long. How many strips are there?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, The Number System; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.NS.1
A cave floor is 40 feet below ground level and a hilltop is 75 feet above it. Which numbers stand for the two places, and what does 0 stand for?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, The Number System; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.NS.5
Four bank accounts show these balances. Which one shows a debt greater than $30?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, The Number System; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.NS.7
How are the points (−3, 5) and (−3, −5) related on the coordinate plane?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, The Number System; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.NS.6
Long division of 5 by 8 gives the decimal form of 5/8. What is it?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, The Number System; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.NS.2
On a coordinate grid, a barn is at (−6, 2) and a pond is at (5, 2). How many units apart are they?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, The Number System; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.NS.8
The temperature was −11°F in the morning and −4°F at noon. Which statement is true?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, The Number System; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.NS.7
What is 7.4 × 0.65?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, The Number System; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.NS.3
What is 16.45 ÷ 0.7?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, The Number System; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.NS.3
What is 7,548 ÷ 37?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, The Number System; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.NS.2
When each of these fractions is turned into a decimal by long division, which one never reaches a remainder of 0?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, The Number System; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.NS.2
Which expression shows 54 + 90 with the greatest common factor taken out, so that the two numbers left inside share no factor?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, The Number System; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.NS.4
Expressions and Equations 11
A canoe rents for $12 an hour. Let c be the total cost in dollars and h the number of hours. Which statement is correct?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Expressions and Equations; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.EE.9
A youth choir is open to singers who are at least 9 years old. Which inequality shows every age a, in years, that may join?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Expressions and Equations; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.EE.8
In the expression 7y + 12, what is the 7?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Expressions and Equations; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.EE.2
Two fifths of a number is 14, so (2/5)x = 14. What is x?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Expressions and Equations; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.EE.7
What is the value of 4a² − 5b when a = 3 and b = 6?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Expressions and Equations; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.EE.2
What is the value of 7² + 3³ × 2?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Expressions and Equations; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.EE.1
What value of x makes x + 4.6 = 11.3 true?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Expressions and Equations; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.EE.7
Which expression is equivalent to 6(2x + 5)?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Expressions and Equations; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.EE.3
Which expression means "twice the sum of n and 7"?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Expressions and Equations; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.EE.2
Which expression names the same number as 2(3n + 1) + n for every value of n?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Expressions and Equations; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.EE.4
Which number in the set {5, 6, 7, 8} makes 4x + 3 = 31 true?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Expressions and Equations; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.EE.5
Geometry 6
A box is 4 1/2 inches long, 2 inches wide and 3 inches high. What is its volume?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Geometry; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.G.2
A patio is a rectangle 12 feet by 5 feet with a triangle added on one 5-foot side. The triangle's base is that side and its height is 6 feet. What is the total area?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Geometry; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.G.1
A rectangle has vertices at (−3, 4), (5, 4), (5, −2) and (−3, −2). What is its area?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Geometry; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.G.3
A right triangle has legs of 11 meters and 14 meters. What is its area?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Geometry; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.G.1
A solid has one square base and four triangular faces that meet at a single point. What is it?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Geometry; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.G.4
Which solid has no flat face, no edge and no vertex?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Geometry; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.G.4
Statistics and Probability 6
A class wants to know how long sixth graders at their school read each night. In the four-step process for statistics, what comes right after writing the question?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Statistics and Probability; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.SP.0
A sixth grade class is choosing a question for a survey. Which one is a statistical question?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Statistics and Probability; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.SP.1
Eight plant heights in inches are 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15 and 17. What is the interquartile range?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Statistics and Probability; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.SP.5
Five quiz scores are 4, 5, 5, 6 and 30. How do the mean and the median compare?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Statistics and Probability; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.SP.3
On a dot plot of the number of pets in each home, most dots sit at 0, 1 and 2, and a few stretch out to 7. Which describes the shape and the better measure of center?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Statistics and Probability; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.SP.5
Six students counted their sit-ups: 14, 8, 11, 19, 8, 16. What is the median?Kentucky Department of Education, Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), grade 6, Statistics and Probability; Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), standard KY.6.SP.5
How this list was compiled: Outline: Mathematics Blueprint (8/6/2020), Kentucky Department of Education, https://www.education.ky.gov/AA/Acct/Documents/FINAL%20Mathematics%20Blueprint%2020200806.pdf, read 2026-10-13: the five grade 6 domains and the target percent of items in each. Standards: Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics (adopted 2019), grade 6, https://www.education.ky.gov/curriculum/standards/kyacadstand/Documents/Kentucky_Academic_Standards_Mathematics.pdf, read 2026-10-13: each question names the standard it practices and keeps to what that standard asks (unit rates with non-complex fractions, equations of the forms x + p = q and px = q, inequalities with >, <, ≥ and ≤, range and interquartile range as the measures of spread). The number of questions is that of the 2025-2026 Testing Items and Times Chart, https://www.education.ky.gov/AA/distsupp/Documents/KSA_Testing_Items_and_Times.pdf. Every calculation is worked out a second time from the numbers in the question. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from a Kentucky Summative Assessment, a K-PREP test, a released item, a practice test of the state or another practice test, and no example of the standards document is reused. No released item or state practice test was read.
How it works
Unofficial practice for grade 6 mathematics on the Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA), once called K-PREP. Its 40 questions are our own, written from Kentucky's blueprint and standards; none is a released item. Not affiliated with the Kentucky Department of Education.
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What the Kentucky state test covers in 6th grade math
This page keeps the shares of the state's mathematics blueprint. The Number System is the largest, 30 to 35 percent: dividing fractions, decimal arithmetic, negative numbers and the coordinate plane. Expressions and Equations has 25 to 30 percent: exponents, equivalent expressions, one-step equations and inequalities. Geometry and Statistics and Probability have 15 to 20 percent each, and Ratios and Proportional Relationships 10 to 15.
Three things Kentucky's grade 6 standards ask for
Turning a fraction into a decimal by long division and telling whether it ends or repeats (KY.6.NS.2). Classifying cubes, prisms, pyramids, cones and spheres (KY.6.G.4). A four-step process for statistics: question, collect, analyze, interpret (KY.6.SP.0). The grade 6 standards name no percent skill, so no question here uses percent. Each answer names its standard.
About a third of the real test is non-calculator, so work the fraction and decimal questions by hand.
Questions and answers
What is the Kentucky state test for 6th grade called?
The Kentucky Summative Assessment, or KSA. The state says the tests were previously called K-PREP, the Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress. In 2025-2026 sixth graders took two KSA tests: reading and mathematics.
How many questions are on the 6th grade KSA math test?
40, by the state's Testing Items and Times Chart for 2025-2026. A form has 27 to 32 multiple-choice questions, 2 to 4 short-answer questions and 1 or 2 extended-response questions. The rest are multiple select or technology enhanced.
Can you use a calculator on the 6th grade KSA math test?
Only in the calculator part. The test takes 120 minutes in two parts, and Part A is non-calculator. In the other part, grades 6 to 8 get an on-screen scientific calculator.
What is a passing score on the KSA in 6th grade math?
There is no pass mark. Kentucky reports one of four performance levels: Novice, Apprentice, Proficient or Distinguished. A percent on this page is practice only and is not one of those levels.