Grade Six Science
(D) Circulatory
Hello Boys and Girls,
It’s time for Science once again! Today is the last article before your very special national assessment. Let’s do checks to ensure that you will be quite ready.
Dates: (Thursday) May 2, 2024 and (Friday) May 3, 2024
Timetable: Thursday May 2, 2024: Morning - Language Papers 2 and 1 Afternoon – Science Papers 1 and 2 Friday May 3, 2024: Morning - Mathematics Papers 1 and 2 Afternoon – Social Studies Papers 1 and 2
Materials: At least three/four sharpened pencils An eraser
A ruler
Your timetable
Tips for you:
• Sleep; go to bed early the night before
• Have your uniform/s clean and ironed
• Ensure your socks, shoes, etc are in place
• Read the questions carefully
• In Paper 1 choose only ONE answer
• In Paper 2 answer Question 1 and any three others
• Take careful note of special words such as not, except, true, false, never, most • Match the numbers on the question papers with those numbers on the answer
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• Check over your answers when you have finished
• Take deep breaths slowly if you get nervous
• Think! Think! Think!
• Pray
A prayer for you:
Dear God,
Thank you for being there for me. Thank you for keeping me safe throughout the past years. I ask you to bless me and help me to interpret the questions correctly. Please bring to my mind the things that I have learnt over the past six years and help me to make the right choices.
Bless all the children throughout Guyana who will be writing this examination. Help us all to do well.
These things I pray in Jesus’ Name. Amen
Let’s answer a few questions. They can serve as revision.
1. All the skills listed below are needed to be a good scientist EXCEPT (A) classifying and measuring.
(B) observing ad recording.
(C) investigating and describing.
(D) predicting and gossiping.
2. Which path does the food take when we eat?
(A) Mouth → oesophagus → liver → stomach
(B) Mouth → oesophagus → heart → stomach
(C) Mouth → oesophagus → stomach → small intestines (D) Mouth → oesophagus → stomach → liver
4. Urea is a waste product that passes through the (A) heart (B) kidneys (C) stomach (D) D (D) liver
5. I transport blood, oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. Which system am
I?
Muscular (B) Nervous (C) Digestive Study the functions below then answer Question 6.
i Helps digest food ii Protects the body from bacteria iii Helps make new blood cells iv Controls body temperature
6. What important jobs does the skin have?
Iv (B) ii and iv (C) ii, iii and iv
7. All the following are true about the sun EXCEPT (A) it is a star.
(B) it is made up of burning gases.
(C) it gives heat and light.
(D) it gets its light from the moon.
(A) How long does it take the moon to go around the sun? (B) 24 hours
(C) 29 days
(D) 12 weeks
(E) 1 year
8. As scientists examining the year, 2028, of what are we most certain? (A) The world will end then.
(B) Jesus Christ will return then.
(C) It is a leap year.
(D) A new planet will be discovered.
9. If on earth Jonathon weighs 42kg, on the moon he would weigh (A) 1/6 kg (B) 7 kg (C) 6 kg (D) 1/7 kg
Match the weather instruments in the left column with what they measure in the right column.
10. Wind vane 11. Anemometer 12. Barometer
(A) our pressure (B) temperature (C) wind direction (D) wind speed
The graph below shows the rainfall of a country from Sunday to Saturday. Study it carefully then answer Questions 14, 15 and 16. 13. Which day has the second highest measurement of rainfall? (A) Monday (B) Tuesday (C) Thursday
14. Which two days had the same amount of rainfall? (A) Monday and Thursday
(B) Sunday and Friday
(C) Tuesday and Thursday
(D) Monday and Thursday
The height in mm of rainfall on Monday was
(A) 27 (B) 22 (C) 25
Study the picture below then answer Question 17. (D) i, ii, iii and iv (D) Saturday (D) 15