Times tables test: which facts need work?
A timed maths quiz on the tables you choose, with printable sheets and answers. Free, no sign-up, nothing leaves your browser.
Test settings
Pick one table or several, or a quick pick. 4 × 7 and 7 × 4 count as one fact. In England, Year 2 learns the 2, 5 and 10 tables, Year 3 the 3, 4 and 8, and Year 4 every table up to 12 × 12.
Quick picksDivide asks the same facts the other way round: 56 ÷ 8 = 7 comes from 8 × 7. Both mixes times and divide questions at random.
Every answer is timed, even with no timer, so you can see which facts took over 6 seconds. No timer just means no countdown on screen.
Timed questions are hard to answer with a screen reader. No timer lets your child answer at their own pace.Each fact once asks every fact in your tables one time. A number picks facts at random and starts a fresh round if it runs out, never asking a fact twice in a row.
Mixed asks 7 × 4 or 4 × 7 at random. Table number first puts the table you picked first, the way the real check writes its questions.
Practice built from STA's published format for the multiplication tables check. Questions are drawn at random on this page, not taken from the check. Not connected to STA or the Department for Education.
In the real check a Next button can replace the 3-second pause. It changes how a pupil moves on, not the 6 seconds to answer: no pupil gets extra time.
Turn it off if the buttons distract and your child types on a keyboard. On a phone, the phone's own number keys appear instead.
STA lists these four colour pairs for pupils who find black on white hard to read. They change the question, the answer box and the keypad.
Settings come back when the test ends.
Your times tables test
Shaded squares are the facts in this test.
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Example result: made-up answers on the 3, 4 and 8 tables, not your child's.
Every answer right, and all under 6 seconds.
Your multiplication square
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- Right, over 6 s
- Wrong
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Table by table
To practise
Times are measured by this browser, to a tenth of a second. They're close, not exact: a busy device can add a fraction of a second.
How the times tables test works
Pick the tables, press Start, and your child answers one question at a time on the big keypad or a keyboard. Nothing gets marked until the end. There's no buzzer halfway through and no red cross to stare at, because this is a test, not a game. When it's over you get a score out of however many questions there were, and a multiplication square with every fact on it.
Every fact counted once
A fact is a pair of numbers, so 4 × 7 and 7 × 4 are the same fact. Choose the 3s, 4s and 8s and you get 33 facts, not 36: 3 × 4, 3 × 8 and 4 × 8 each sit in two of those tables. "Each fact once" asks all 33, shuffled. Pick a set number of questions instead and the test draws them at random. If that's more than the tables hold, it reshuffles and goes round again, and it never asks the same fact twice in a row. Divide asks the same facts the other way round, so 56 ÷ 8 = 7 comes from 8 × 7.
Wrong, slow and not reached
Every answer is timed from the moment the question appears, even with the timer off. Get one right but take longer than 6 seconds, and it's marked "over 6 s". Six seconds is what the real check allows, and STA chose it to give children time to recall an answer "whilst limiting pupils' ability to work out answers". So slow isn't wrong. It's a fact your child can work out but hasn't got by heart yet, and that's the one worth practising.
The square shows each fact as right, right but over 6 s, wrong, no answer or not reached, by shape as well as colour. "Not reached" only happens when a test ends early, and it never counts as wrong.
Times come from your browser's own clock, to a tenth of a second. They're close rather than exact, since a busy phone can add a fraction of a second, so treat 6.1 s as a nudge to practise and nothing more.
The MTC-style check
The multiplication tables check (MTC) is the on-screen check every eligible Year 4 pupil at a state-funded school in England takes in June. Our MTC-style practice follows the format the Standards and Testing Agency (STA) publishes for the people who build the real check.
The questions are our own random draw, never questions from the check, and we're not connected to STA or the Department for Education.
| The check, as STA describes it | |
|---|---|
| Questions | 25, one mark each, after 3 practice questions |
| Time to answer | 6 seconds, from the moment the question appears |
| Between questions | a 3-second pause, or a Next button for pupils who need one |
| Tables | 2 to 12; the 1 times table only in practice questions |
| Most questions from | the 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 tables: 2 to 4 questions each |
| Fewest from | the 2 and 10 tables: 0 to 2 each; the 3, 4, 5 and 11 tables: 1 to 3 each |
| 2, 5 and 10 tables together | 3 to 7 of the 25 |
| Repeats | no question twice, and never both 3 × 8 and 8 × 3 |
| Order | random: "Items are not ordered according to difficulty" |
| Marking | numbers only; whatever is on screen when Enter is pressed or the time runs out |
| Extra time | none |
| Pass mark | none: "There is no pass mark for the check." |
| When | each June; in 2026, 1 to 12 June, with 15 to 19 June for pupils who were away or whose check was delayed by technical problems |
Our version keeps the parts that make sense at a kitchen table: the Next button, no on-screen keypad, and STA's four colour pairs. What it doesn't have is a "no timer" setting, because STA is clear that "pupils cannot be given additional time". The Next button changes how a child moves on, not the 6 seconds.
Two details here are our own reading of STA's 2022 framework, because it doesn't spell them out. Second numbers run from 2 to 12, like the tables, which fits its pool of 121 questions. And questions whose second number is 2, 5 or 10 make up 2 to 8 of the 25.
Sheets with their own answers
Print a worksheet makes a new sheet from your settings on one A4 page, with the answers on a second page. Both pages carry the same four-character sheet code, so a key never ends up marking the wrong sheet. After a test, Print result puts the score and the square on paper, and when there are facts to practise it adds a short sheet of just those, with its own key. Nothing is downloaded or saved. Close the tab and it's gone.
With a screen reader
With No timer, the test works with a screen reader: each question is read out and every keypad key has a name. The timed options are hard to use with one, and STA's own check "does not support commercial screen readers" for the same reason.
Who this is for
Parents and carers with a child learning tables at home, especially a Year 4 child in England with the June check coming up.
Teachers and tutors who want tomorrow's sheet with its answers, not the same sheet the class has learnt by position.
Any child who knows "the 7s are hard" and is ready to find out which 7s.
Parent questions about the times tables check
Is there a pass mark for the times tables check?
No. STA's leaflet for parents says it plainly: "There is no pass mark for the check." Your child's teacher shares the score, which is out of 25, and STA sets no expected standard for it. That's why we show a count and a square of today's facts, never a pass, a fail or a guess at what your child will get in June.
How long is the Year 4 times tables check?
Short. There are 3 practice questions, then 25 that count. Each one gives 6 seconds to answer, with a 3-second pause before the next, and STA says the whole check should take no longer than 5 minutes. Our MTC-style practice runs to the same clock, so your child can feel how quick 6 seconds is before the day.
When is the multiplication tables check?
In June. In 2026 schools gave the check between 1 and 12 June, with 15 to 19 June kept for pupils who were away or whose check was delayed by technical problems. STA puts each year's dates in its administration guidance, which has come out every April for the last four years. From late April schools can also let pupils use a "try it out" version, signed in with a school password and a PIN.
What times tables should my child know in Year 2, 3 and 4?
In England's national curriculum, Year 2 covers the 2, 5 and 10 tables and Year 3 adds the 3, 4 and 8 tables. By the end of Year 4 it's every table up to 12 × 12, and each year includes the matching division facts. If your child is at school in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, ask the school which tables it expects when.
Which times tables are the hardest?
STA's answer is the 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 tables. It builds every check around them "because these have been determined to be the most difficult", with 2 to 4 of the 25 questions from each. That's why "6, 7, 8, 9, 12" is one of our quick picks. Your own child's hardest facts may be different, and the square shows you which they are.
Do I need to prepare my child for the multiplication tables check?
STA says no: "you do not need to do anything additional to prepare your child for the check". Teachers may ask you to practise times tables at home, and that's where a few minutes help. We'd keep it short: one test, then one practice round of only the facts it flagged, and stop while it still feels easy.
Why does a right answer say 'over 6 s'?
Because 6 seconds is the time limit in the real check, and STA set it to allow recall but not working out. If your child counted up in sevens to reach 7 × 8, the answer was right and still slow. We mark that apart from wrong so you can see it, and "Practise these" includes it.
Is this the real multiplication tables check?
No. The real check and its "try it out" version run through your child's school, which signs pupils in with a school password and a PIN it makes each day. Ours is practice built from STA's published format. The questions are our own random draw, nothing is sent anywhere, and the score says nothing about June.
Times tables test sheets for Year 2, 3 and 4
Which tables belong on a test depends on the year. England's national curriculum spreads them out, and our quick picks follow it.
| Year (England) | Tables in the curriculum | Quick pick | Facts in a test |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 2 | 2, 5 and 10 | 2, 5, 10 | 33 |
| Year 3 | 3, 4 and 8 | 3, 4, 8 | 33 |
| Year 4 | every table up to 12 × 12 | All 12 | 78 |
| Year 4, the hard ones | 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12 (STA's "most difficult") | 6, 7, 8, 9, 12 | 50 |
Each year's tables come with their division facts, so Divide and Both are fair from Year 2 on. A 78-fact test is a lot to ask of an eight-year-old on a school night, so we'd split it: one quick pick tonight, the next one tomorrow, and the MTC-style check once the square is mostly ticks. Every printed test has its own answer page with a matching sheet code.
Sources and last checked
- Standards and Testing Agency, Multiplication tables check assessment framework (2022 edition), sections 1, 4 and 5.
- Standards and Testing Agency, Multiplication tables check administration guidance, updated 27 April 2026 for the 2025 to 2026 school year, sections 1 and 5 to 7.
- Standards and Testing Agency, Multiplication tables check: information for parents, updated 15 September 2025.
- Department for Education, National curriculum in England: mathematics programmes of study, key stages 1 and 2 (2013), Years 2 to 4.
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