Fifty grade 6 questions in the shares of South Carolina's blueprint: ratios, expressions, integers, area, box plots and percents.
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The real test: SC READY math, grade 6
Questions
50
Items
50 operational items, 1 point each: selected-response with four options, technology-enhanced and constructed-response. 6 to 8 field test items may be added.
Sections
One day, two sections: No Calculator first, then Calculator, where the online test gives grade 6 a four-function and a scientific calculator.
Time
Not timed. For scheduling, the state lists about 80 minutes in grades 6 to 8.
Algebra and number items
Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning 18 to 21; Numerical Reasoning 7 to 9.
Geometry and data items
Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning 11 to 14; Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning 9 to 11.
Score levels, 2026-27
Does Not Meet 100 to 264, Approaches 265 to 292, Meets 293 to 328, Exceeds 329 to 430.
A box plot is made for the data 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15. Between which two values does the box reach?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.DPSR.1.2
A cafeteria manager asks 45 of a school's 600 students which lunch they like best. What is the sample size?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.DPSR.1.1
A dot plot of the ages of people at a party is skewed right: most dots are between 10 and 12, and one dot is at 45. Which measure best describes a typical age, and why?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.DPSR.1.3
A forecast gives the probability of rain as 0.9. Which word describes the chance of rain?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.DPSR.2.1
A game wheel has 25 equal sections, and 8 of them are yellow. What is the probability of landing on yellow, as a percent?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.DPSR.2.2
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Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning, continued
A jar holds 4 red marbles, 9 blue marbles and 7 green marbles. One marble is drawn without looking. What is the probability that it is green?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.DPSR.2.2
A student wants to know the favorite sport of the sixth graders at her school. Which sample best represents them?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.DPSR.1.1
The probability that a team wins its next game is 0.35. What is the probability that it does not win?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.DPSR.2.3
What is the interquartile range of 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, 19, 21?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.DPSR.1.4
What is the median of 23, 8, 17, 30, 8, 13?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.DPSR.1.4
Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning 12
A planter box is a right rectangular prism 30 inches long, 8 inches wide and 9 inches high. How much soil fills it?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.1.5
A point is plotted at (−6, −2). Which quadrant is it in?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.3.1
A polygon has vertices at (−2, 1), (3, 1), (3, 4) and (−2, 4). What shape is it?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.3.2
A tabletop is a trapezoid. Its parallel sides are 9 feet and 15 feet, and they are 6 feet apart. What is its area?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.1.1
A triangular sail has a base of 18 feet and a height of 7 feet. What is the area of the sail?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.1.1
The base of a right rectangular prism has an area of 35 square centimeters. The prism is 8 centimeters high. What is its volume?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.1.5
The front of a shed is a rectangle 10 feet wide and 6 feet high with a triangle on top. The triangle is 10 feet wide and 4 feet high. What is the area of the front?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.1.4
The net of a pyramid is a square 6 inches on a side with four matching triangles. Each triangle has a base of 6 inches and a height of 5 inches. What is the surface area?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.1.3
The net of a right rectangular prism shows faces for a box 6 cm long, 4 cm wide and 3 cm high. What is the surface area of the box?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.1.3
On a protractor, one ray of an angle passes through 20° and the other passes through 95° on the same scale. What is the measure of the angle?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.2.2
Two angles measure 37° and 53°. Which word describes the pair?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.2.1
Which set of faces makes a net of a triangular prism?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.MGSR.1.2
Numerical Reasoning 8
A submarine is 250 feet below sea level. Which integer shows its position, and what does 0 stand for?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.NR.2.3
Ana ran 7/8 mile and Ben ran 0.9 mile. Which statement compares the two distances correctly?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.NR.2.1
What is 17/20 as a percentage?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.NR.1.1
What is the opposite of −3.5?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.NR.2.4
Which fraction is equal to 0.125?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.NR.1.1
Which list is in ascending order?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.NR.2.2
Which of the numbers −9, 7, 4 and −2 has the greatest absolute value?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.NR.2.4
Which statement about 3/5 and 0.55 is true?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.NR.2.1
Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning 20
A 2.5-pound bag of nuts costs $18.75. What is the price for one pound?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.3.7
A bag of flour weighs 48 ounces. There are 16 ounces in 1 pound. How many pounds does the bag weigh?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.9
A bowling alley charges $6 for each game and $3 once for shoes. Which expression gives the cost of g games, and what do 4 games cost?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.4
A car travels 150 miles in 3 hours at a steady speed. What is the unit rate?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.7
A class has 12 girls and 15 boys. What is the ratio of girls to all students, in simplest form?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.6
A function is given by f(x) = 3x + 2. What is the output in its table when the input is 4?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.1.1
A paint color mixes 2 cups of blue with every 5 cups of yellow. How many cups of yellow go with 14 cups of blue?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.8
A pump moves 96 liters of water in 4 minutes. At that rate, how many liters does it move in 7 minutes?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.8
At noon the temperature was −4°F. By night it had dropped 9 degrees. What was the temperature at night?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.3.5
The height of a bean plant depends on the number of days since it was planted. Which is the independent variable?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.1.2
How is the solution of x > 4 shown on a number line, and how many solutions does it have?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.3.1
In the expression 7n + 4, what is the 7 called?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.1
Solve x + 3.8 = 12.5.South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.5
What is 2/5 ÷ 1/10?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.3.6
What is the multiplicative inverse of 3/7?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.3.2
What is the value of 3 + 2 × [4² − (6 + 1)]?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.3
Which expression is equivalent to 4(x + 6), and which property shows it?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.3.4
Which number added to −12 gives a sum of zero?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.3.3
Which shows 5 × 5 × 5 written as a power, with its value?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.2
Zoe wants to spend less than $40 on shirts that cost $8 each. Which inequality shows the number of shirts, s, she can buy?South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (2025), grade 6, indicator 6.PAFR.2.5
How this list was compiled: Outline: SC READY Mathematics Grades 6-8 Test Blueprint 2026-27, South Carolina Department of Education, Office of Assessment and Standards, https://ed.sc.gov/tests/tests-files/sc-ready-files/sc-ready-math-6-8-blueprint/, linked from the department's SC READY page, https://ed.sc.gov/tests/middle/sc-ready/, read 2026-10-13. Each question names the grade 6 indicator it practices in the 2025 South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Mathematics Standards (approved December 2023, emended July 2026), https://ed.sc.gov/instruction/standards/mathematics/standards/2025-south-carolina-college-and-career-ready-mathematics-standards/, read 2026-10-13, and keeps the limits the indicator sets (fraction denominators of 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 20, 25, 50, 100 and 200 for conversions, comparisons and probability; inequalities with < and > only). Every numeric answer is arithmetic on the numbers in the question, worked out a second time as a check. Licence: Own work. Questions, answer choices and explanations were written for this site. Nothing is copied or reworded from an SC READY test, the state's sample items, its Online Tools Training or another practice test. No sample or Online Tools Training item was opened.
How it works
Unofficial 6th grade practice for SC READY mathematics, South Carolina's state test. All 50 questions were written for this site to the 2025 standards; none comes from a real test. Not affiliated with the South Carolina Department of Education.
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What the 6th grade SC READY math test covers
The 2026-27 blueprint sorts 50 items into four reporting categories. Patterns, Algebra, and Functional Reasoning is the largest, 18 to 21 items: ratios and rates, expressions, one-step equations and inequalities, integers, fractions and decimals. Measurement, Geometry, and Spatial Reasoning has 11 to 14: area, nets and surface area, volume, angle pairs, the four quadrants. Data, Probability, and Statistical Reasoning has 9 to 11: box plots, median, interquartile range, probability. Numerical Reasoning has 7 to 9: percents, comparing rational numbers, absolute value.
A question for every indicator
The blueprint lists 39 grade 6 indicators, and each has a question here. The code under an answer, such as 6.PAFR.2.8, is the indicator in the 2025 standards.
Questions and answers
How many questions are on the 6th grade SC READY math test?
50 operational items, according to the 2026-27 blueprint, which adds that 6 to 8 field test items may be embedded. The state's item type list makes each worth one point.
Can 6th graders use a calculator on SC READY math?
In the second section only. There the online test gives grade 6 a four-function and a scientific calculator, and a handheld basic or scientific calculator is also allowed. The first section is No Calculator.
How long is the SC READY math test in 6th grade?
It is not timed. The state's format table gives 80 minutes for the two math sections in grades 6 to 8, an approximation meant to help schools schedule.
What SC READY math score is passing in 6th grade?
South Carolina reports four levels, not a pass mark. For 2026-27, a grade 6 math scale score of 293 to 328 is Meets and 329 to 430 is Exceeds.
Is there an official SC READY practice test for 6th grade?
The department's SC READY page points to an Online Tools Training that simulates the testing software and its tools, such as the highlighter and the calculator. The questions on this page are separate, unofficial practice.