For Grade 6 students in Ontario

EQAO Grade 6 practice

Every Grade 6 student in Ontario's public schools writes EQAO's Junior Division assessment online in May or June: reading and writing in four sessions of about 35 minutes, and math in four stages of about 30 minutes. It does not count toward report card marks; each part is reported as a level from 1 to 4.

Our EQAO-style practice has both halves of the math, two reading sessions' worth of texts and questions, and the multiple-choice writing questions, all new every time a session starts and all in Canadian English. The real test also asks for written answers that teachers mark; our questions are all marked straight away, so they leave those out.

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Math, reading and writing

Write a whole session, or 10 questions to try it first. A free account includes 3 practice tests to write, and you will be asked to make one.

  • Math, stages 1 and 2

    22 questions · 60 minutes

    Number, algebra, data, and geometry and measurement.

  • Math, stages 3 and 4

    22 questions · 60 minutes

    The same strands, with new questions.

  • Reading

    20 questions · 70 minutes

    Stories, information texts and poems, each with its questions.

  • Writing

    20 questions · 70 minutes

    Organizing ideas, grammar, spelling and punctuation.

The test

How the real test works, and ours

The real testOur practice
MathFour stages of about 30 minutes, adaptive, with a built-in calculatorTwo papers of 22 questions in 60 minutes, each from easier to harder; use your own calculator
ReadingTwo sessions of about 35 minutes20 questions on stories, information texts and poems, in 70 minutes
WritingTwo sessions of about 35 minutes, with written answers marked by teachers20 multiple-choice questions on organizing ideas, grammar, spelling and punctuation, in 70 minutes
CurriculumThe Ontario curriculum to the end of Grade 6: Mathematics (2020) and Language (2023)Grade 6 questions on the same ground

EQAO publishes the sessions, the stages and their times, and the question types. It does not publish how many questions each has or how the adaptive stages are chosen, so our lengths are our own and our papers are fixed.

A look at the test

Questions in the EQAO style

  • Math: percents

    5% of the money in a jar is $6.00. How much money is in the jar altogether?

    1. A$12.00
    2. B$0.30
    3. C$120.00
    4. D$114.00
    Show the answer and why
    AnswerC$120.00
    The jar95%= $120.00$6.00
    5% is $6.00, so 1% is $1.20 and 100% is $120.00.

    1. Read which way round this is

      The amount given is only 5% of the money, not all of it. The answer must be BIGGER than $6.00.

    2. Find what 1% is worth by sharing that 5% into 5 equal parts: $6.00 ÷ 5 = $1.20.

    3. The whole is 100 of those.

    4. Final answer

      $1.20 × 100 = $120.00.

    Remember

    Going forward, find 1% first by dividing by 100, then multiply.

  • Writing: joining ideas

    ______ Mom nor Dad heard the phone ring.

    Which word or words best complete the sentence?

    1. ANeither
    2. BEither
    3. CWhether
    4. DBoth
    Show the answer and why
    AnswerANeither

    1. Find the other half of the pair already in the sentence.

    2. Match it

      neither/nor.

    3. Final answer

      Neither.

    Remember

    Ask how two parts go together: because gives a reason, so gives a result, but shows a difference, before and after tell when.

In Grade 3? Practise for EQAO Grade 3. In Grade 9? Practise for the Grade 9 math assessment.

Pricing

Three free practice tests. Unlimited tests and answers are CA$69.

A free account includes 3 practice tests to write. The pack opens unlimited sessions and shows your child what they got right, the right answers and how to reach them, on every EQAO practice session.

EQAO practice pack

CA$69

for 6 months

  • Which questions your child got right, after every practice test
  • The right answer to every question
  • A worked solution for every question, step by step
  • Unlimited Grade 9 math sessions
  • Unlimited Grade 3 and Grade 6 reading, writing and math

One payment in Canadian dollars for 6 months of access. No auto-renewal: when the 6 months end, access stops unless you buy again.

Questions

What parents ask

Are these real EQAO questions?
No. We write our own questions on the Grade 6 curriculum. EQAO's own sample test is free on its website, and we suggest trying it too.
Does the Grade 6 assessment count?
No. The results do not go into report card marks. Schools and families use them to see how a student is doing against the provincial standard.
When is it written?
In May or June, on dates the school sets inside EQAO's window.
Can my child use a calculator?
Yes, in math. The real test has one built in, so use one for our practice too.
Is it free?
A free account includes 3 practice tests to write. The EQAO pack (CA$69) opens unlimited practice at Grades 3, 6 and 9, with which questions were right, the right answers and a worked solution for each.

EQAO is the Education Quality and Accountability Office, an agency of the Government of Ontario. Scholar Tests is not affiliated with or endorsed by EQAO, the Ontario Ministry of Education or any school board. Our practice questions are written by us from the Ontario curriculum and EQAO's published frameworks; they are not EQAO questions, and a practice score is not an EQAO result or a prediction of one.