Understanding and reading times in 24-hour format (e.g., 14:30 means 2:30 pm).
Where your child meets this in real life: Reading bus timetables, train schedules, or digital clocks on phones and computers
Each SEAG paper has 28 maths questions. Questions 29 to 50 are multiple choice with five possible answers, and questions 51 to 56 need a short written answer. With 56 questions in 60 minutes across English and maths, that is about a minute per question.
SEAGReady breaks read 24-hour time into 3 steps, taught in order so each skill builds on the last.
Read 24-hour times from 01:00 to 11:59 and recognise them as morning times
Read 24-hour times from 13:00 to 23:59 and recognise them as pm times
Read and distinguish between midnight hour (00:00-00:59) and noon hour (12:00-12:59)
Try three free questions from our read 24-hour time course. They start easy and get harder, so you can see where your child's confidence runs out. If they manage the last one without a hint, this topic is probably secure. If not, the steps above show where to start.
Lewis looks at the clock on the school computer. What time is shown in words?
The train arrives at 17:45. What time is this in 12-hour format?
Raj says the two phone clocks show the same time. Is he correct?
This is the exact interactive worked example your child sees in SEAGReady. Step through it and watch the method build up.
Emma checks the digital clock on the school computer. It shows 09:25 in 24-hour format.
What time is this in words?
09:25
24-hour time uses HH:MM (hours : minutes)
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Emma checks the digital clock on the school computer. It shows 09:25 in 24-hour format.
What time is this in words?
The clock shows twenty-five past nine in the morning.
The key insight: Morning times in 24-hour format look almost the same as 12-hour times - just with a leading zero!
Common mix-up: Reading 09:25 as 'nine twenty-five pm'. Hours 01-11 are always morning times. Only hours 12 and above can be pm.
These are the misconceptions we see most often in read 24-hour time, including the ones our practice questions are specifically designed to catch.
Struggling with read 24-hour time? The real gap is often in one of these earlier topics.
Sitting the SEAG test this November? Read our last-month revision plan, Paper 1 vs Paper 2 and test day guide.
SEAGReady finds the exact step where your child gets stuck, teaches it with worked examples like the one above, and brings it back for review so it sticks.
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