October 2025 Contest — Grade 2
The October 2025 North Star contest paper for Grade 2 has 12 questions and a 40-minute limit. Two sample questions with worked solutions are below, and you can take the whole paper online for free — no account, no sign-up.
- Grade
- Grade 2
- Questions
- 12
- Time limit
- 40 minutes
- Contest
- October 2025
- Subject
- Mathematics
- School year
- 2025-26
Before you start
- The timer starts when you press Start and runs for 40 minutes.
- Answer the 12 questions in any order; each is multiple choice.
- Your answers are marked as you go. Nothing is saved to an account, so finish in one sitting.
Sample questions
The first and last questions from this paper, with their worked solutions.
Question 1 — Number Sense & Operations
Jadoo is an alien who has brought with him three triangular coins and five hexagonal coins. How many total coins Jadoo has brought?
- A.6
- B.7
- C.8
- D.9
- E.10
Show the worked solution
To find the total number of coins Jadoo has brought, we can add the number of triangular coins and the number of hexagonal coins together.
Jadoo has:
3 triangular coins
5 hexagonal coins
When we add them together:
3 + 5 = 8
So, Jadoo has brought a total of 8 coins.
The answer is C.
Question 12 — Logical Reasoning & Problem Solving
Jack is practicing a dance where he takes certain steps forward (marked as F) and some backward (marked as B). He starts with 3 forward steps followed by one step backward. The list of steps are given below. What number is X.
- A.9
- B.11
- C.13
- D.10
- E.15
Show the worked solution
Let's find the number for X by looking at the pattern of Jack's dance steps. Jack's dance pattern is 3 steps forward (F) followed by 1 step backward (B). This pattern repeats over and over: F, F, F, B, F, F, F, B, F, F, F, B, and so on. Let's count and number each step in order: the 1st step is F, the 2nd step is F, the 3rd step is F, the 4th step is B, the 5th step is F, the 6th step is F, the 7th step is F, the 8th step is B, the 9th step is F, the 10th step is F, the 11th step is X, and the 12th step is B. By counting the steps in order, we have: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. The step labeled X is the 11th step, so the number for X is 11. The answer is B.
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