Are you as smart as a 6th Grader?
March 3, 2010
If you want to try them yourself, here are the 63 questions Grade 6 student Arash Rafat answered in 60 seconds, making one error at question 59. (You can compare your results against the list of correct answers that follows the list of questions.)
As of Tuesday afternoon, he was ranked third in the world at his level; the questions get harder the more questions students complete. The global, online competition runs for 48 hours, ending Thursday 6 a.m.
1. 7-1=
2. 20÷2=
3. 4-3=
4. 12÷2=
5. 24÷2=
6. 2x11=
7. 18-1=
8. 9-5=
9. 55+2=
10. 8÷2=
11. 45÷5=
12. 17-0=
13. 18-0=
14. 35÷5=
15. 15-4=
16. 14÷2=
17. 12-1=
18. 2x3=
19. 5x3=
20. 5x10=
21. 20+4=
22. 88+5=
23. 89+6=
24. 10÷2=
25. 18+8=
26. 8÷2=
27. 5x9=
28. 22÷2=
29. 2x2=
30. 15-4=
31. 6÷2=
32. 10x12=
33. 32+3=
34. 38+9=
35. 5x5=
36. 2x5=
37. 85+7=
38. 5x8=
39. 12÷2=
40. 68+5=
41. 8-6=
42.68+1=
43. 78+8=
44. 4÷2=
45.2x3=
46. 30+7=
47. 28+9=
48. 8÷2=
49. 45÷5=
50. 10x5=
51. 20÷5=
52. 10÷2=
53. 4-0=
54. 10x11=
55. 23+6=
56. 2x5=
57. 2÷2=
58. 12-3=
59. 22÷2=
60.7-1=
61. 8÷2=
62. 20÷2=
63. 2÷2=