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CREST CMO Class 6 exam guide

CREST CMO Class 6 sample paper, 2026–27

What is actually on the CREST CMO Class 6 paper for 2026–27: the sections the body itself publishes, how many questions each one carries and what each is worth — read off the body's own site, and stamped with the date we last checked it.

Last verified against CREST Olympiads’s own site on 28 September 2026.

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Is there a paper to download?

No — OlympAI does not publish a practice paper for this exam. OlympAI has not built this paper’s section structure yet. CREST publishes one; matching our topics onto it is work we have not done, and a paper assembled against the wrong sections would be worse than none.

The paper

What the body's own paper looks like

CREST Mathematics Olympiad (CMO) Class 6 section structure
SectionQuestionsMarks each
Section 1 — Practical Mathematics401
Section 2 — Achievers Section102
Total5060 marks · 60 minutes

What it covers: Maths for Class 6

  • Ch 1. Patterns in Mathematics

    Olympiad syllabus label: Not named separately on CREST's list — new in the 2026-27 book; feeds number-pattern questions

  • Ch 2. Lines and Angles

    Olympiad syllabus label: Basic Geometrical Ideas

  • Ch 3. Number Play

    Olympiad syllabus label: Whole Numbers; Playing with Numbers

  • Ch 4. Data Handling and Presentation

    Olympiad syllabus label: Data Handling

  • Ch 5. Prime Time

    Olympiad syllabus label: Playing with Numbers (factors, multiples, primes)

  • Ch 6. Perimeter and Area

    Olympiad syllabus label: Mensuration

  • Ch 7. Fractions

    Olympiad syllabus label: Fractions; Decimals

  • Ch 8. Playing with Constructions

    Olympiad syllabus label: Practical Geometry

  • Ch 9. Symmetry

    Olympiad syllabus label: Symmetry

  • Ch 10. The Other Side of Zero

    Olympiad syllabus label: Integers

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