Provincial Achievement Test · Manitoba
Grade 12 Essential Mathematics Achievement Test
- Grade 12
- 40S
Dates and details can change. We do our best to keep this page up to date, but check the official sources before relying on it.
- Total time
- 2 h
- Marked questions
- 43
- Counts for
- 20% of the final mark
- Calculator
- Any calculator
- Format
- On paper
Manitoba Grade 12 Essential Math Exam practice test
The whole exam or the parts you choose, in its own format, on the clock.
The exam in the app
Its parts, and what you can use in each
A question, timed, with the exam’s tools
The marked result, part by part
A practice run of Saskatchewan’s Grade 9 math assessment.
Free with a MapleMind account
When
2 sessions this school year: Semester 1 and Semester 2.
Semester 1
- Wednesday, January 27, 20272 hours (+30 minutes); start between 8:30 and 10:00 a.m.
Semester 2
- Wednesday, June 16, 20272 hours (+30 minutes); start between 8:30 and 10:00 a.m.
The dates are Manitoba’s own, read on September 28, 2026. See the official schedule (edu.gov.mb.ca)
What’s on it
6 topics. Vehicle Finance counts most, at 20–25%.
- Vehicle Finance20–25%
- Statistics10–15%
- Precision Measurement10–15%
- Home Finance15–20%
- Geometry and Trigonometry15–20%
- Probability10–15%
The skills it tests · 17 skills
- Buying, leasing, or leasing to buy
- Expected gain or loss and applications
- Home insurance and owning versus renting
- Justifying a vehicle decision
- Mean, median, mode, and outliers
- Mortgages and purchase costs
- Operating and insuring a vehicle
- Percentile rank and decisions
- Precision versus accuracy
- Probability and odds
- Property tax, maintenance, and feasibility
- Regular polygons and applications
- Solving triangles with the sine and cosine law
- Triangles and quadrilaterals
- Uncertainty and tolerance
- Understanding percentiles
- Weighted and trimmed mean
How it’s built
- Student Booklet: six unit parts
- Time
- 120 min
- Questions
- 43
- Marks
- 74
- Of the marks
- 100%
- Multiple choice
- Written answers
Six parts, one for each unit, in an order that changes from test to test. Each mixes multiple choice (1 mark) with questions where you show your work.
How it’s marked
Your teachers mark it with the department's marking guide, and the department re-marks a random sample. The test counts for 20% of your final course mark; it has no pass mark of its own.
On the day
- Calculator
- Bring any calculator. Computers and graphing software aren't allowed.
- Provided
- Formula Sheet: Essential Mathematics (with the tax table), Terminology Sheet: Essential Mathematics and Manitoba Homeowner's Insurance Rates ($500 deductible)
One paper test, and everyone gets 30 more minutes. Bring a pencil, eraser, ruler, highlighter, calculator and one study sheet (8½ by 11 inches, both sides).
Getting ready
3 official documents to practise with, and 5 tips.
Official practice
Tips from the people who write it
- Read 'taxes included' and 'plus taxes' carefully: adding taxes that are already included costs half a mark.
- On a vehicle purchase, a trade-in comes off before taxes, and a down payment after.
- In sine and cosine law problems, keep full calculator precision and round only at the end.
- A percentile rank is a whole number with no percent sign.
- Bring a study sheet: one 8½ by 11 sheet, both sides.
The mark you need
Your class mark counts for 80% of the final mark, the exam for 20%.
You need
50% on the exam
With 75% in class, your final mark lands between 60% (0 on the exam) and 80% (100% on it).
After the exam
- Results
Your school marks the test and gives you your result right after. Report cards show it apart from your course mark.
- Re-marking
A reread is up to your school division.
- Writing it again
You can rewrite at any later sitting once the course is done, enrolled or not. It’s free, there’s no limit, and your higher result becomes your official mark. Retaking the course doesn’t mean rewriting the test.
- If you miss it
Tests can’t be rescheduled. If you’re absent for illness, a death in the family or another crisis, your school sets your final grade and your report card shows “no mark” for the test. Absent without a reason, or refusing to write, gives 0% for the parts missed.
From Grade 12 Provincial Tests: Policies and Procedures (edu.gov.mb.ca), read on October 27, 2026.
More for you
Students
Start with the topics worth the most marks, then write full practice exams under the real time limit.
Practise itParents
Put the dates on the family calendar. The Parent Dashboard shows each practice exam’s result and the skills that need another look.
See the Parent DashboardEducators
The topic weights and the official practice above make a review plan. Students can practise each skill on its own in MapleMind, free with daily limits.
For schools
Questions about this exam
When is the Grade 12 Essential Mathematics Achievement Test in 2026–27?
The next sitting is January 27, 2027, 2 hours (+30 minutes); start between 8:30 and 10:00 a.m.. This school year it’s written in Semester 1 and Semester 2.
How long is the Grade 12 Essential Mathematics Achievement Test?
It takes 2 hours in all, over 1 part.
How many questions are on the Grade 12 Essential Mathematics Achievement Test?
It has 43 marked questions.
Can you use a calculator on the Grade 12 Essential Mathematics Achievement Test?
Yes, any calculator.
How much does the Grade 12 Essential Mathematics Achievement Test count?
It’s worth 20% of the final mark in Essential Mathematics, Grade 12 (40S).
Where can I find practice tests for the Grade 12 Essential Mathematics Achievement Test?
Manitoba publishes Essential Mathematics: Student Booklet and Marking Guide, June 2026 and Archived tests and support documents (June 2018 to June 2026). MapleMind also builds a full practice exam in its format, free with an account.
Practise for the Grade 12 Essential Mathematics Achievement Test
Every skill on the Grade 12 Essential Mathematics Achievement Test, taught one at a time, then practised on questions written like the real ones.
