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Iowa Assessments (ITBS) Practice Pack — Grade 6

20 original Iowa Assessments (ITBS)-style questions · Answer key on the last page · iprepgenius.com/printables

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  1. 1.

    Use the graph to answer: How many for Grapes?

    Fruit sold at lunch024681012ApplesPearsGrapesPlums
    (A)10
    (B)8
    (C)9
    (D)5
  2. 2.

    a candid answer

    Candid means about the same as —

    (A)quick
    (B)long
    (C)clever
    (D)honest
  3. 3.

    Which word is spelled wrong?

    (A)independant
    (B)athlete
    (C)separate
    (D)calendar
    (E)(No mistakes)
  4. 4.

    Which line has a mistake in capitalization or punctuation?

    (A)On April 14 our class
    (B)will visit the science
    (C)museum in Chicago with
    (D)Mr. Osei and two parents.
    (E)(No mistakes)
  5. 5.
    Twenty-Six Miles of Strategy

    Spectators often imagine a marathon as a simple test of speed, but experienced runners describe it as a banking problem. Every runner starts with a limited store of easily burned fuel called glycogen — enough for roughly twenty miles at a strong pace. Spend it too fast, and the body must switch to burning fat, a slower process that feels like running through sand; runners call this hitting the wall. The winners are rarely the fastest sprinters. They are the best accountants: athletes who spend their glycogen so evenly that the account runs empty only a few steps past the finish line.

    "Hitting the wall" happens when —

    (A)a runner trips over a barrier
    (B)glycogen runs out and the body burns fat
    (C)spectators block the road
    (D)the course becomes sandy
  6. 6.What does DNA carry?
    (A)genetic instructions for living things
    (B)sound waves
    (C)oxygen molecules
    (D)electric current
  7. 7.

    87 × 7 = ?

    (A)610
    (B)609
    (C)696
    (D)608
  8. 8.

    Use the graph to answer: Which had the MOST?

    Books read this week024681012MonTueWedThu
    (A)Mon
    (B)Tue
    (C)Thu
    (D)Wed
  9. 9.

    verify the results

    Verify means about the same as —

    (A)confirm
    (B)announce
    (C)record
    (D)predict
  10. 10.

    Which word is spelled wrong?

    (A)restaurant
    (B)definately
    (C)separate
    (D)government
    (E)(No mistakes)
  11. 11.

    Which line has a mistake in capitalization or punctuation?

    (A)The students wrote letters
    (B)to Mrs. Lopez thanking her
    (C)for the field trip on
    (D)October 15 to the museum.
    (E)(No mistakes)
  12. 12.
    Robot Geologists

    The rovers that explore Mars are often called robot geologists, and the nickname is earned. Like a field scientist, a rover studies layers of rock to read the planet's history. When one drilled into a dry lakebed and found clay that forms only in calm, fresh water, scientists concluded that Mars was once far friendlier to life than it is today. A rover's day is planned to the minute by engineers on Earth, yet the machine must handle surprises alone: a signal takes many minutes to cross the distance between the planets, so no one can steer a rover around a rock in real time. Each evening, the rover reports what it found; each night, humans write tomorrow's plan.

    Why can't engineers steer a rover in real time?

    (A)Signals take minutes to travel between planets
    (B)The rovers move too quickly
    (C)Mars blocks all radio waves
    (D)Rovers have no cameras
  13. 13.Which is the correct order of levels of organization from smallest to largest?
    (A)tissue, organism, cell, organ
    (B)organism, cell, tissue, organ
    (C)organ, cell, organism, tissue
    (D)cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism
  14. 14.

    63 × 16 = ?

    (A)945
    (B)1,007
    (C)1,008
    (D)998
  15. 15.

    Use the graph to answer: How many for Birds and Fish TOGETHER?

    Pets in the class024681012CatsDogsFishBirds
    (A)11
    (B)5
    (C)10
    (D)12
  16. 16.

    reluctant to answer

    Reluctant means about the same as —

    (A)unwilling
    (B)slow
    (C)unable
    (D)eager
  17. 17.

    Which word is spelled wrong?

    (A)necessary
    (B)independent
    (C)restaurant
    (D)surprise
    (E)(No mistakes)
  18. 18.

    Which line has a mistake in capitalization or punctuation?

    (A)On September 24, our class
    (B)will visit the science
    (C)museum in Austin with
    (D)Mr. parker and two parents.
    (E)(No mistakes)
  19. 19.
    The Machine That Multiplied Ideas

    Before the printing press, every book in Europe was copied by hand, letter by letter, mostly by monks working in candlelit rooms. A single Bible could take three years to finish, so books were rarer than jewels and just as expensive. Around 1440, Johannes Gutenberg combined several existing ideas — metal letter stamps, a wine press, and oil-based ink — into one machine that could print a page in seconds. Within fifty years, printing shops operated in every major European city, and the price of books collapsed. Ideas that once crawled from monastery to monastery now raced across the continent. Historians argue about many causes of the modern world, but nearly all of them put Gutenberg's press near the top of the list.

    "The price of books collapsed" means the price —

    (A)fell sharply
    (B)stayed the same
    (C)was hidden
    (D)doubled
  20. 20.Which biome has permafrost beneath its surface?
    (A)the rainforest
    (B)the tundra
    (C)the desert
    (D)the grassland

Answer Key — Iowa Assessments (ITBS) Grade 6

  1. 1. C — Read each bar against the scale: Apples = 10, Pears = 6, Grapes = 9, Plums = 5. So the answer is 9 — C.
  2. 2. D — "candid" means honest — D. The other words describe things that might fit the scene, but none means "candid".
  3. 3. A — "independant" is wrong; the correct spelling is "independent" (A).
  4. 4. A — Line A has the mistake: a comma is needed here. It should read "On April 14, our class".
  5. 5. B — Defined in the passage — B. The other choices are not supported by the passage.
  6. 6. A — The correct answer is: genetic instructions for living things. The other choices do not correctly answer the question.
  7. 7. B — 87 × 7 = 609 (B). The other choices come from common slips: dropped carries or borrows, place-value slides, and off-by-one counting.
  8. 8. D — Read each bar against the scale: Mon = 6, Tue = 3, Wed = 11, Thu = 8. So the answer is Wed — D.
  9. 9. A — "verify" means confirm — A. The other words describe things that might fit the scene, but none means "verify".
  10. 10. B — "definately" is wrong; the correct spelling is "definitely" (B).
  11. 11. B — Line B has the mistake: a comma is needed here. It should read "to Mrs. Lopez, thanking her".
  12. 12. A — The delay is stated — A. The other choices are not supported by the passage.
  13. 13. D — The correct answer is: cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism. The other choices do not correctly answer the question.
  14. 14. C — 63 × 16 = 1,008 (C). The other choices come from common slips: dropped carries or borrows, place-value slides, and off-by-one counting.
  15. 15. A — Read each bar against the scale: Cats = 2, Dogs = 5, Fish = 3, Birds = 8. So the answer is 11 — A.
  16. 16. A — "reluctant" means unwilling — A. The other words describe things that might fit the scene, but none means "reluctant".
  17. 17. E — All four words are spelled correctly — E (No mistakes).
  18. 18. D — Line D has the mistake: a person's name must be capitalized. It should read "Mr. Parker and two parents.".
  19. 19. A — Context: printing made books cheap — A. The other choices are not supported by the passage.
  20. 20. B — The correct answer is: the tundra. The other choices do not correctly answer the question.

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