Multiplication Tables Check: free practice sheets

Children in Year 4 at state schools in England take the Multiplication Tables Check in a window in June. It is 25 questions on a screen, each one n × n, with 6 seconds to answer each. These four free practice sheets are built to the same recipe: 25 questions drawn from the 2 to 12 times tables in the proportions the official assessment framework sets out, three warm-up questions first, and an answer page so you can mark it out of 25. There is no pass mark in the check, and there is none here — the score only shows which tables are secure and which still need a bit of practice. Print them as PDFs, no sign-up needed.

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Learning one table at a time? The 7 times table worksheet has tricks and 32 problems for that one table.

What is the Multiplication Tables Check?

1. Every child in Year 4 at a state-funded school in England takes it. It has been statutory since 2022. It is not taken in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
2. It is taken on a screen in a window in June — in 2026 that was 1 to 12 June, with a catch-up week after it. The school chooses when in the window, and it takes about five minutes.
3. There are 25 questions, each of them a multiplication like 7 × 8 =, worth one mark. Your child has 6 seconds to answer, then a 3-second pause before the next one.
4. Three practice questions come first, so nobody meets the format cold.
5. The questions come from the 2 to 12 times tables — 121 facts in all. The 1 times table is not in the check, although it can turn up in the practice questions.
6. More questions come from the 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 tables than from the others: the framework names these as the most difficult.
7. There is no pass mark. The school is sent a score out of 25 and passes it on to parents. In 2025 the average score in England was 21 out of 25, and 37 % of children got all 25. That is what happened, not a target your child has to hit.

How to practise without making it stressful

1. Five minutes beats an hour

   Times tables stick through short, frequent practice. One sheet a half-term, and a couple of minutes in the car, will do more than a long session the week before.

2. It is 121 facts, and really only 66

   7 × 8 = 8 × 7 = 56

   Every fact and its swap have the same answer, so learning one teaches both. The pile is about half as big as it looks.

3. Start from the facts they already own

   2 ×5 ×10 ×

   Most children have the 2, 5 and 10 tables early. Everything else can be reached from them: 6 × 7 is 5 × 7 and one more 7.

4. Six seconds means knowing, not rushing

   Six seconds is enough to recall a fact and not enough to work it out. So practise until a fact is known, rather than practising going faster. A child who counts up in 7s is not slow, they just haven’t finished learning it yet.

5. Mark it, then practise the gaps

   The answer page is the point of these sheets. Three wrong out of 25 in the same table tells you exactly what to spend next week on; a score alone tells you very little.

6. Don’t make it the main event

   Children pick up quickly when a grown-up is worried about something. The check is five minutes in June and there is no pass mark; a sheet at the kitchen table is just a sheet at the kitchen table.

The facts that cost the most marks

• 6 × 7 = 42↔7 × 8 = 56

  The two most-missed facts in the whole grid, and children often swap their answers.

  What helps: “5, 6, 7, 8” → 56 = 7 × 8. And 6 × 7 is double 3 × 7.

• 7 × 9 = 63↔8 × 9 = 72

  The 9s look alike and come late in the learning.

  What helps: The digits of every answer in the 9 times table add to 9: 6+3, 7+2. And 9 × 8 is 10 × 8 minus 8.

• 11 × 12 = 132↔12 × 12 = 144

  The 11 and 12 tables are the newest, and both are in the check.

  What helps: 12 × is 10 × plus 2 ×: 12 × 12 = 120 + 24. Above 10, the 11 times table stops being “just double digits”.

• 6 × 8 = 48↔7 × 7 = 49

  Next-door answers, so a near miss looks right.

  What helps: 7 × 7 is odd × odd, so it has to end in an odd digit — 48 can’t be it. 6 × 8 is double 3 × 8.

For teachers

The four forms are built to the published item-selection rules, so they can stand in for a mock: 25 items with each table inside its minimum and maximum, 3 to 7 items from the Key Stage 1 tables, no repeats and no reversals within a form, and no more than 30 % of items shared between any two forms. That last rule is why there are four and not one — a class can sit them across the spring term without recognising the questions. They print on any black-and-white photocopier. The answers are on page 2, so print page 1 only for the children.

Rather practise with a game?

In Number Jungle your child runs through the jungle and dashes through the gate with the right answer. It drills the times tables up to 10 × 10 — most of what the check asks, but not the 11 and 12 tables, which these sheets cover. No ads, works offline, free for Android, iPhone and iPad.

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