Grade 6 History tests and exam questions
Grade 6 History exam practice tests
Pick a topic below and start straight away. Every test is free, follows CAPS within Social Sciences, and shows an explanation with every answer.
Mali, explorers and sources
Paper 1 · 3 topicsMedicine, democracy and heritage
Paper 2 · 3 topicsMixed test
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About Grade 6 History
Grade 6 history looks at the world for the first time. The year opens with the Kingdom of Mali — a West African empire built on gold and salt, with Timbuktu as a centre of books and scholarship long before any European contact.
Then come the European explorers, and here the curriculum asks for more than names and dates. The word 'discover' is used carefully, because a place cannot be discovered where people already live. It was new to Europe, not to the world.
Paper 2 covers medicine through time and democracy. The link between them is closer than it looks: both are about how a society decides what applies to everyone.
Frequently asked questions
Why does Grade 6 study Mali?
Because it corrects the context. Mali and Timbuktu show that Africa had large, wealthy, organised states with international trade long before European contact — Timbuktu had universities and libraries while most of Europe could not yet read.
What should my child remember about the explorers?
Why they sailed (spices and a direct route to the East), who reached the southern tip (Dias, 1488), who reached India (Da Gama, 1498), and what the consequences were for indigenous people.
Why are there questions about sources and bias?
Because that is the heart of the subject. A navigator's journal and a local inhabitant's account of the same event will differ, and a child must learn to ask who wrote a source and why.
Are these the same questions as in our PDF papers?
No. These are separate, original questions covering the same CAPS content.