Junior Kangaroo Past Papers and Grade Boundaries
Below is a table with the grade boundaries for past papers for the UKMT Junior Kangaroo, as well as a table with links to lots of past papers and solutions. You can also see more info about the Junior Kangaroo, including FAQs, here:
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Junior Kangaroo Past Papers
This table contains links to past papers for the UKMT Junior Kangaroo – these papers are hosted at the UKMT website. The most recent papers are usually made available a couple of days after the challenge takes place and may briefly be available at the official website before this table is updated.
Scores needed to qualify for the Junior Kangaroo
This page contains grade boundaries for the Junior Kangaroo itself. For the scores needed to qualify, please see the Junior Maths Challenge Certificate Boundaries page.
Junior Kangaroo Scoring
The Junior Kangaroo is scored much like the Junior Maths Challenge, with all questions being multiple choice. Questions 1-15 are given 5 marks each and questions 16-25 6 marks each, with no penalties for wrong answers.
Junior Kangaroo Certificate Boundaries from 2025
From 2025, the top 10% of entrants receive a Gold Kangaroo Certificate, the next 20% receive a Silver Kangaroo Certificate and the next 30% receive a Bronze Kangaroo Certificate. All other students receive either a Certificate of Qualification (if they qualified automatically from the Junior Maths Challenge) or a Certificate of Participation (if they made a discretionary entry without qualifying automatically).
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Date Released |
| 2025 | 113+ | 101+ | 85+ | Jun 16th (6 days after Kangaroo) |
Junior Kangaroo Grade Boundaries before 2025
Before 2025, Certificates of Merit were awarded to the top 25% of students taking part, and all other entries received certificates of qualification or participation. (To see the scores needed to qualify from the Junior Maths Challenge see the page here.) Past papers for the Junior Kangaroo are available from the UKMT website here.
| Year | Score required for Merit |
| 2024 | 103+ |
| 2023 | 90+ |
| 2022 | 97+ |
| 2021 | 97+ |
| 2020 | No Kangaroo paper due to pandemic |
| 2019 | 89+ |
| 2018 | 96+ |
| 2017 | 89+ |
| 2016 | 95+ |
| 2015 | 96+ |
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