Scholarship maths is not a chapter a child finishes. It is number patterns, money, calendars, clocks and measurements, asked in a new arrangement each year. A parent does not have to teach the syllabus. The class teacher is doing that. A tuition teacher is doing it too, if your child has one. Home has a smaller job: one question, the step said out loud, and a stop while the child is still willing.
What the papers we hold actually ask
The scholarship pool on Wizder is 500 questions from 20 papers, 10 sittings, 2014 to 2025. Topic names about number, money, time, measure or pattern come to 104 tags and 152 questions, about 30% of that pool. That percentage is our tag, not a split published by the Department. A tag about a banknote as a social-studies fact, or about a language pattern, is not in this set. The full ranking of every tag, including the ones that are not number work, is in what the papers actually repeat.
10 of those tags appear in more than one sitting. The table is those. A tag that appears once is a real question, and a bad thing to drill as if it were guaranteed. Across the sittings we hold, this set runs from 5 to 27 questions in a year.
| Topic | Sittings | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| සංඛ්‍යා රටා | 5 of 10 | 9 |
| සංඛ්‍යා තර්කනය | 5 of 10 | 8 |
| දින ගණනය | 4 of 10 | 5 |
| දින දර්ශන තර්කනය | 2 of 10 | 4 |
| මුදල් ගණනය | 2 of 10 | 4 |
| තාර්කික ගණිතය | 2 of 10 | 3 |
| සංයෝජන ගණනය | 2 of 10 | 3 |
| රටා තර්කනය | 2 of 10 | 2 |
| රූප ගණනය | 2 of 10 | 2 |
| සමීකරණ තර්කනය | 2 of 10 | 2 |
Questions in that set, by sitting. Newest first.
| Sitting | Questions |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 |
| 2024 | 13 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2021 | 16 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2018 | 14 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2015 | 21 |
| 2014 | 17 |
Fifteen minutes, beside school
The 12-month plan is six days a week, fifteen minutes a day. That length is the whole method. A parent who turns it into an evening class has built the thing the plan was written to avoid. If your child already comes home tired from school, or from tuition, fifteen minutes is the ceiling, not the start of a second shift.
The top of the table
The two tags in the most sittings are සංඛ්‍යා රටා (5 of 10) and සංඛ්‍යා තර්කනය (5 of 10). Cover the options. Ask what changed, and look only after your child has said it out loud. On a number pattern, that change is the rule. Ask for the rule before the sum.
Money, calendars, clocks
Use the table, one problem at a time. A calendar tag gets the calendar on the wall: what is the date a given number of days from today. A money tag gets a handful of coins. A time tag the child missed gets the clock: where are the hands at a time they name. Then the same idea inside a real question, so the exam version is the kitchen version with options attached. The questions on Wizder are in Sinhala.
The question they missed
Keep a short list. One or two misses, not every miss. Do that question again later in the week. Then do another question with the same topic name. The practice mixes the sittings we hold, so the same idea comes back in different words. That is the point of a second sitting. Tell the class teacher, or the tuition teacher, which topic was on the list. They are the ones teaching it. A note from home tells them where the child hesitated. It does not correct their lesson.
What to say
- Ask how they got it. The sentence they say is the lesson. The tick is not.
- Stop at fifteen minutes, including on a day that is going well.
- If a step is stuck, leave it and tell the teacher the topic. Guessing a method you are not sure of teaches the wrong step with confidence.
One question to do together
Read it once. Let your child say the step before anyone reaches for the answer. The reason is under the options. When you want the next one, open the scholarship world. If the result is already out and the question in the house is which school to name, that process is a different page: Grade 6 applications after the result.
සිසුන් කණ්ඩායමක නායිකාව ලෙස එම කණ්ඩායමේ තාරකි තෝරාගන්නා ලදී. ඉතුරු සිසුන්ගෙන් උපනායිකාවක් හා උපනායකයෙකු තෝරාගත හැකි ආකාර ගණන 6කි. එම කණ්ඩායමේ සිටින ගැහැනු ළමයින් ගණන සහ පිරිමි ළමයින් ගණන වීය හැක්කේ පිළිවෙළින්,
- A2 සහ 3 කි.
- B2 සහ 4 කි.
- C3 සහ 3 කි.
- D4 සහ 2 කි.
Common questions
How long should Scholarship maths practice be at home?
About fifteen minutes, on most days. That is the same length as the 12-month plan. Longer than that, and it stops. The class teacher, and a tuition teacher if your child has one, already carry the lesson. Home is the short repeat.
Which Scholarship number topics come back most often?
Of the topic names about number, money, time, measure or pattern, these appear in more than one of the 10 sittings we hold (2014 to 2025). The figure is how many sittings: සංඛ්‍යා රටා (5), සංඛ්‍යා තර්කනය (5), දින ගණනය (4), දින දර්ශන තර්කනය (2), මුදල් ගණනය (2), තාර්කික ගණිතය (2), සංයෝජන ගණනය (2), රටා තර්කනය (2). The table on this page lists every such tag that returns.
Do I need to be good at maths to help?
No. You need one question and the patience to let your child say the step before anyone looks at the answer. The reason is written under the question, in Sinhala. Your job is to keep the session short and to notice which topic stuck.
Does home practice replace the class teacher or tuition?
No. It sits beside them. The teaching stays with the class teacher, and with a tuition teacher if your child goes to one. Tell that teacher which topic the child hesitated on. Home is not a third syllabus.