List of top Questions asked in CBSE Class VI

The sale of electric bulbs on different days of a week is shown below : 
The sale of electric bulbs on different days of a week
Observe the pictograph and answer the following questions :
  1. How many bulbs were sold on Friday?
  2. On which day were the maximum number of bulbs sold?
  3. On which of the days same number of bulbs were sold?
  4. On which of the days minimum number of bulbs were sold?
  5. If one big carton can hold 9 bulbs. How many cartons were needed in the given week?
Find the difference between the greatest and the least 5-digit number that can be written using the digits 6, 2, 7, 4, 3 each only once.
The teacher distributes 5 pencils per student. Can you tell how many pencils are needed, given the number of students? (Use s for the number of students.)
Split the following shapes into rectangles and find their areas. (The measures are given in centimetres)
A student multiplied 7236 by 65 instead of multiplying by 56. By how much was his answer greater than the correct answer? (Hint: Do you need to do both the multiplications?)
Radha is drawing a dot Rangoli (a beautiful pattern of lines joining dots with chalk powder as in figure). She has 8 dots in a row. How many dots will her Rangoli have for r rows? How many dots are there if there are 8 rows? If there are 10 rows?
Out of 1800 students in a school, 750 opted basketball, 800 opted cricket and remaining opted table tennis. If a student can opt only one game, find the ratio of
(a) Number of students who opted basketball to the number of students who opted table tennis.
(b) Number of students who opted cricket to the number of students opting basketball.
(c) Number of students who opted basketball to the total number of students
Namita travels 20 km 50 m every day. Out of this she travels 10 km 200 m by bus and the rest by auto. How much distance does she travel by auto?
What is the perimeter of each of the following figures? What do you infer from the answers?
List of figures
Mother wants to divide ₹ 36 between her daughters Shreya and Bhoomika in the ratio of their ages. If age of Shreya is 15 years and age of Bhoomika is 12 years, find how much Shreya and Bhoomika will get.
The weight of 72 books is 9 kg. What is the weight of 40 such books?
Find the perimeter of each of the following shapes : 
  1. A triangle of sides 3 cm, 4 cm and 5 cm. 
  2.  An equilateral triangle of side 9 cm. 
  3.  An isosceles triangle with equal sides 8 cm each and third side 6 cm.
Ekta earns 3000 Rs. in 10 days. How much will she earn in 30 days?
Are the following statements true?
(a) 40 persons: 200 persons = ₹15: ₹75
(b) 7.5 litres : 15 litres = 5 kg: 10 kg
(c) 99 kg: 45 kg = ₹ 44: ₹20
(d) 32 m: 64 m = 6 sec: 12 sec
(e) 45 km: 60 km = 12 hours: 15 hours
Anish made 42 runs in 6 overs and Anup made 63 runs in 7 overs. Who made more runs per over?

Cost of 5 kg of wheat is  91.50 Rs.
(a) What will be the cost of 8 kg of wheat?
(b) What quantity of wheat can be purchased in Rs.183?

A vessel has 4 litres and 500 ml of curd. In how many glasses, each of 25 ml capacity, can it be filled?
A truck requires 108 litres of diesel for covering a distance of 594 km. How much diesel will be required by the truck to cover a distance of 1650 km?

A table-top measures 2 m 25 cm by 1 m 50 cm. What is the perimeter of the table-top?

How many tiles whose length and breadth are 12 cm and 5 cm respectively will be needed to fit in a rectangular region whose length and breadth are respectively: 
(a) 100 cm and 144 cm 
(b) 70 cm and 36 cm.
Which factors are not included in the prime factorisation of a composite number?
Express the following as the sum of two odd primes.
  1. 44
  2. 36
  3. 24
  4. 18
A book exhibition was held for four days in a school. The number of tickets sold at the counter on the first, second, third and final day was respectively 1094, 1812, 2050 and 2751. Find the total number of tickets sold on all the four days.
Using divisibility tests, determine which of the following numbers are divisible by 4; by 8:
  1. 572
  2. 726352
  3. 5500
  4. 6000
  5. 12159
  6. 14560
  7. 21084
  8. 31795072
  9. 1700
  10. 2150
Find the sum of :
(a) 137 and – 354
(b) – 52 and 52
(c) – 312, 39 and 192
(d) – 50, – 200 and 300