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Nova Scotia Assessment: Reading, Writing, and Mathematics/Mathématiques in Grade 6

Nova Scotia Assessment: Reading, Writing, and Mathematics/Mathématiques in Grade 6 (RWM6-EN / RWM6-IM)

  • Grade 6

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Total time
5 h
Marked questions
122
Parts
3
Calculator
Not allowed
Format
On a computer

Nova Scotia Grade 6 Assessment practice test

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  • Nova Scotia Assessment: Reading, Writing, and Mathematics/Mathématiques in Grade 6 in the MapleMind app: the exam in the appThe exam in the app
  • Nova Scotia Assessment: Reading, Writing, and Mathematics/Mathématiques in Grade 6 in the MapleMind app: its parts, and what you can use in eachIts parts, and what you can use in each
  • A multiple-choice question in a practice exam in the MapleMind app, with its timer and toolsA question, timed, with the exam’s tools
  • A practice exam’s marked result in the MapleMind app: the score, how the real exam reports it, and each part’s pointsThe marked result, part by part

A practice run of Saskatchewan’s Grade 9 math assessment.

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When

2 sessions this school year: Sample assessment window and Assessment window.

Sample assessment window

  1. October 5 to October 16, 2026One or two class periods per subject · Sample assessments (in class, on the platform)

Assessment window

  1. October 19 to November 10, 202645-minute and 30-minute parts · Reading and writing (4 parts) and mathematics (4 parts), scheduled by the school

The dates are Nova Scotia’s own, read on September 28, 2026. See the official schedule (plans.ednet.ns.ca)

What’s on it

  • Reading
    Reported on its own (levels)

Writing

  • Transactional
    A letter
  • Narrative
    A story

Mathematics

  • Number
  • Patterns and Relations
  • Measurement
  • Geometry
  • Statistics and Probability
The skills it tests · 60 skills
  • Adding and subtracting decimals
  • Analysing the author's use of literary elements (Grade 5)
  • Capacity: millilitres and litres
  • Capitalization and punctuation (Grade 5)
  • Comparing and ordering decimals
  • Comparing and ordering fractions
  • Comparing two outcomes
  • Composing sentences (Grade 5)
  • Connecting decimals and fractions
  • Decimals to thousandths
  • Describe topic, audience and purpose for writing (Grade 5)
  • Dividing a three-digit number by a one-digit number
  • Double bar graphs
  • Drafting with audience, purpose, topic and conventions (Grade 5)
  • Editing drafts and exploring a word processor (Grade 5)
  • Elements of style (Grade 5)
  • Equivalent fractions
  • Estimating and measuring capacity
  • Estimation strategies
  • First-hand and second-hand data
  • Generating and documenting ideas for writing (Grade 5)
  • Grapheme-phoneme correspondences / morphology and vocabulary (Grade 5)
  • Halving-doubling and the distributive property
  • Identifying the point of view in texts (Grade 5)
  • Impossible, possible, and certain
  • Interpreting remainders in context
  • Letters and alphabetic knowledge / orthographic patterns (Grade 5)
  • Literary devices and rhetorical techniques (Grade 5)
  • Making inferences to support comprehension (Grade 5)
  • Measuring volume and building prisms
  • Millimetres, centimetres, and metres
  • Monitoring comprehension (Grade 5)
  • Multiplying by multiples of 10, 100, and 1000
  • Narrative and informational text forms (Grade 5)
  • One-step equations with a variable
  • Organizational structures and text features (Grade 5)
  • Organizing writing (Grade 5)
  • Parallel, perpendicular, and other lines
  • Partitioning and comparing to a million
  • Parts of speech to support reading and writing (Grade 5)
  • Pattern rules and predictions
  • Phonics: blending and segmenting to read and spell (Grade 5)
  • Purpose for reading / background knowledge (Grade 5)
  • Purpose for reading and reading goals (Grade 5)
  • Reading fluently with accuracy, pacing and expression (Grade 5)
  • Recalling multiplication and division facts
  • Rectangles for a given perimeter or area
  • Reflecting on goals and revising writing (Grade 5)
  • Reflections (flips)
  • Right angles
  • Rotations (turns)
  • Showing and reading numbers to a million
  • Solving two-digit multiplication problems
  • The millimetre
  • Translations (slides)
  • Two-digit multiplication with the area model
  • Visual elements and design (Grade 5)
  • Volume: referents and estimating
  • Writing fluently by hand and building word-processing skills (Grade 5)
  • Writing strengths, growth areas and goals (Grade 5)
From the courseEnglish Language Arts, Grade 5Its Course CompanionEnglish Language Arts, Grade 5From the courseMathematics, Grade 5Its Course CompanionMathematics, Grade 5

How it’s built

Multiple-choice questions, questions in sets and an essay.

  1. Reading (Parts 1 and 3)
    Time
    90 min
    Questions
    50
    Marks
    50
    Of the marks
    33%
    • Multiple choice
    • Questions in sets

    Two reading parts of about 45 minutes: read stories, information texts, poems or songs, and visual texts, and answer multiple-choice questions. The screen has a highlighter, line reader, zoom and notes.

  2. Writing (Parts 2 and 4)
    Time
    90 min
    Questions
    2
    Marks
    32
    Of the marks
    33%
    • Essay

    Two writing tasks, one in each writing part: a letter and a story. Each starts with sharing ideas with classmates and a choice of topics.

  3. Mathematics (Parts 1 to 4)
    Time
    120 min
    Questions
    70
    Marks
    70
    Of the marks
    34%
    • Multiple choice

    Four math parts of about 30 minutes, on what you learned by the end of Grade 5: multiple choice, often in a real-life setting, with some drop-down and drag-and-drop. No calculator.

How it’s marked

  1. Level 1
  2. Level 2
  3. Level 3
  4. Level 4

A computer marks the multiple-choice answers, and Nova Scotia teachers mark your writing. There's no pass mark: you get a level from 1 to 4 in reading, writing and math, and the results don't count on your report card.

On the day

  1. FirstSample questions in class, on the platform, over one or two class periods per subject.
  2. Then, on days your school setsReading and writing in four 45-minute parts, and math in four 30-minute parts.

New in 2026-27: online instead of on paper, in shorter parts that fit class periods. No calculator; you get scrap paper and pencils for math. A dictionary or thesaurus is allowed in reading and writing. Everyone may take up to 15 extra minutes on each part.

Getting ready

3 official documents to practise with, and 3 tips.

Official practice

Tips from the people who write it

  • You don't need to study ahead: what you learn in class prepares you.
  • Your class tries the sample assessments on the platform first, to get used to the screens and question types.
  • You may use a dictionary or thesaurus at any time in reading and writing.

After the exam

Results

Each student gets an Individual Student Report, available to families through PowerSchool once results are analyzed.

Marks

Results aren’t used for report card grades or decisions about a student’s grade placement.

If you miss it

A student with an Individual Program Plan takes part if their planning team, parents included, agrees.

From Program of Learning Assessment for Nova Scotia (PLANS): Grade 3, Grade 6 and Grade 8 (plans.ednet.ns.ca), read on October 27, 2026.

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Questions about this exam

How long is the Nova Scotia Assessment: Reading, Writing, and Mathematics/Mathématiques in Grade 6?

It takes 5 hours in all, over 3 parts.

How many questions are on the Nova Scotia Assessment: Reading, Writing, and Mathematics/Mathématiques in Grade 6?

It has 122 marked questions: 50 in Reading (Parts 1 and 3), 2 in Writing (Parts 2 and 4) and 70 in Mathematics (Parts 1 to 4).

Can you use a calculator on the Nova Scotia Assessment: Reading, Writing, and Mathematics/Mathématiques in Grade 6?

No. Calculators aren’t allowed.

How are Nova Scotia Assessment: Reading, Writing, and Mathematics/Mathématiques in Grade 6 results reported?

At 4 levels: Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4.

Where can I find practice tests for the Nova Scotia Assessment: Reading, Writing, and Mathematics/Mathématiques in Grade 6?

Nova Scotia publishes Public online sample assessments, Grade 6 (reading, writing, mathematics; English and French). MapleMind also builds a full practice exam in its format, free with an account.

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