Grade 6 Creative Arts Revision Paper With Answers

Quick answer: it tests string instruments and resonators, stippling, primary and secondary colours, collage, volleyball serves and digs, note values and French rhythm names, plain weave, the cartwheel, sol-fa, long jump and high jump techniques, the descant recorder, pottery, breaststroke and elements of music. The first five questions are free.

After the curriculum was rationalised, Creative Arts in upper primary combines art and craft, music and physical education. The Grade 6 design listed on the KICD Grade 6 curriculum designs page groups the work into three strands: creating and executing, performing and displaying, and appreciation in Creative Arts. Much of the subject is practical, but written papers test the knowledge behind each skill. Creative Arts is also part of the combined KPSEA Creative Arts and Social Studies paper set by KNEC.

• Art and craft: stippling, colour classification and mixing, collage, plain weave on a card loom, and slab pottery with burnishing.
• Music: Kenyan string instruments such as the nyatiti, parts of a string instrument, crotchet to semibreve note values, French rhythm names, sol-fa, the descant recorder, percussion ensembles, tempo, monophonic texture and binary and ternary form.
• Physical education: volleyball underarm service and dig pass, the cartwheel, long jump sail technique, high jump scissors style and breaststroke.

Question: A bar in 4/4 time has a minim and one more note. Which single note completes the bar?

Model answer: A minim is 2 beats and the bar needs 4, so 2 more beats are needed. A second minim (taa-aa) completes it. Learners who can count beats like this can answer almost any rhythm question.

Clap the rhythms. Say taa, ta-te and taa-aa while clapping. Rhythm names stick when the body feels them.

Mix real paint. Let your child mix red, yellow and blue to make orange, green and purple. They will never forget which colours are primary.

Explain each technique in one sentence. For the sail technique, the scissors style or burnishing, ask your child to describe what the body or hands do. Written papers reward a clear description of the action.

• Calling green a primary colour. Green is secondary: blue plus yellow.
• Mixing up tempo (speed) and dynamics (loudness).
• Placing the right hand on top of the recorder. The left hand goes on top.
• Confusing binary form (AB) with ternary form (ABA).

Two minutes per question is enough. Music questions on note values reward counting beats on rough paper, so encourage your child to tap or write the beats rather than guess. Physical education questions describe actions; picture the movement before choosing an option. Read all four options every time, because distractors often name a real technique from a different sport.

The first five questions are free for everyone. The full paper, timer, all explanations and saved scores open with the KSh 20 Day Pass or the KSh 500 Monthly Pass.

Revise with the Grade 6 Creative Arts notes and the Grade 6 notes on weaving, then try the other subjects on the Grade 6 revision papers page and the KPSEA practice papers. Quick daily practice is in the Grade 6 CBC Challenge.

What does Grade 6 Creative Arts include?

Art and craft, music and physical education, organised into creating and executing, performing and displaying, and appreciation.

Is Creative Arts tested in KPSEA?

Yes. It is combined with Social Studies and Religious Education in the KPSEA Creative Arts and Social Studies paper.

How many beats does each note get?

In simple time a quaver gets half a beat, a crotchet one, a minim two, a dotted minim three and a semibreve four.

Is this an official exam paper?

No. It is an original CBC Guide practice paper written from the Grade 6 curriculum design, not a KNEC, leaked or predicted paper.