Tutor Notes

Tutor Notes

Maths
Test 1
Multiple Choice & Standard Format

Read the following instructions carefully:

Do not turn over the test paper until you are told to do so.

Write your answers on the horizontal line(s) within each question or by circling the letter corresponding
to your choice as appropriate. Please use a HB pencil.

If you need to change your answer, rub out the incorrect answer and then fill in the correct answer.

You may prefer to work out your answers on the question sheet or you can use rough paper for that
purpose.

You have 50 minutes to complete the test.

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MATHS TEST PAPER 1

1.

James distributed 209 pencils to 17 children

evenly. How many is he left with?

5.

____________

Out of the 48 pencils in the box, three-eighths

are charcoal pencils, a quarter are graphite
pencils and the rest of them are crayons. How
many crayons are there?
____________

2.

A number p is 18 more than the product of

71, 2 and 100. What is (p+20)?
6.

What fraction of this shape is not shaded?

____________

3.

Circle the combination of weights that needs

to be added to the lighter side to balance the
scale.

____________

a. 50g
c. 4250g
e. 250g

b. 200g
d. 500kg

7.

In the snake park, there are people and

snakes. There are 24 eyes and 14 legs. How
many snakes are there?
____________

4.

My bedroom is rectangular and measures 3

metres along each long side and 2 metres
along the other sides. What is its area?

_________

8.

The army helicopter started its 37 minute

flight at 11:37pm. What time did the flight
end? Give your answer as a time on a twenty
four hour clock.

____________

9.

94% of the people who sat the exam passed

with distinction. How many people didnt get
distinction if 250 people took the exam?

13.

The ratio of the sides of two cubes is 2:5.

What is the ratio of their volumes?
____________

____________

14.
10.

Circle the statement that is true.

A ribbon is 212.09 cm long. Give the length of

the ribbon in mm, to the nearest mm.

a. All rectangles are parallelograms

b.

All parallelograms are rectangles

____________
15.
11.

In a recent survey, children were asked who

they thought deserved the title of the worlds
leading athlete. The results were recorded in
the pie chart below.

As part of a green campaign, the residents of

Haywood are collecting litter in their
neighbourhood. The table below shows the
number of plastic bottles collected last week.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
i.

////
////
///
////
//
////
////

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i.

What is the range of the number of

bottles collected?
____________

ii.

____________
ii.

What is the average number of bottles

collected?
____________

A day of the week is chosen at random. What

is the probability that it will not begin with
T? Give your answer as a fraction.
____________

If 30 children chose the footballer, how

many chose the Olympic 100m gold medal
winner ?
____________

iii.
12.

What percentage of the children chose the

worlds best footballer?

What was the third most popular choice?

a : Olympic 100m gold
b : Wimbledon tennnis champ
c : Worlds best footballer
d : Heavyweight boxing champ
e : Others
____________
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16.

My cars petrol tank holds 75 litres. The fuel

gauge shows that it is 40% full. How much
petrol should I put in to fill the tank?

22.

A rectangular room measuring 2.75m by 3.2m

has electrical wire running all the way round
the edge. What is the length of the wire in
cm?

____________
____________

17.

Write

235
7

as a mixed fraction.

23.

Which of these is not equivalent to 0.3?

a. 30%

____________

b.

d. 0.30 x 1

18.

I was born 1,612 weeks ago. How old am I?

24.

10

e.

c. 3 x 0.01
1.8
6

What is the angle at y?

____________ years

19.

___________

What is 0.105 divided by 5?

____________
25.

20.

a. 119 b. 273

Two villages are 6cm apart on a map that has

a scale 1: 55,000. What is the actual distance
between the two villages in kilometres?
____________

Which one of these numbers is a prime

number?

26.

c. 113

d. 247

e. 169

A tile measures 30cm by 30cm. How many

such tiles are required to cover the floor of a
room that is 6m long and 3m wide?

___________
21.

A light flashes every 1.5 seconds. How many

times will it flash in 5 minutes?
27.
____________

What is the square root of 132 -122 ?

____________
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28.

The sum of three consecutive numbers is 15.

What is the largest of the three numbers?

33.

The chart below shows the average rainfall

each month in the Pacific island paradise of
Tropilulu.

____________

29.

Today the temperature is -4oC. Yesterday it

was 5 degrees warmer than today. What was
yesterdays temperature?
____________
i.

30.

What is the angle at A?

What is the range in monthly rainfall?

____________

ii.

What is the mode of the data?

____________

iii.

What is the mean rainfall in the winter

months of December to February?
____________

B
____________

31.

32.

Calculate: 4.2 x

34.

What are the new co-ordinates of the point C

when the figure is reflected in the X-axis?

4
2

____________

Look at the bricks shown below:

1860

2186

1186

1118

Circle the brick that has one thousand, 8

hundreds and 6 tens only.

____________

35.

What is 0.79 minus 0.00891?

41.
____________

36.

The cost of model trains has gone up by 15%

this year. What is the new price of a model
that cost 9 last year?
42.

37.

A sandwich costs x pounds while a drink

costs y pounds. Write an expression to show
the total cost of 5 sandwiches and 3 drinks.

____________
How many hours are there in two-thirds of a
day?

____________
What is the value of x in each of the boxes?
i.

____________

38.

2 = 32

____________

ii.

What fraction of a metre is 55cm? Please give

your answer in the lowest form.

x3 = 64

____________

____________

39.

Three toy robots start to walk, side by side.

Their steps are 4cm, 5cm and 6cm
respectively and they each walk at exactly the
same speed.If they are in step at the start,
how far will they have to walk before they are
next in step again?

43.

Stewart is 6ft tall while his shadow is 2 ft long.

The shadow of a statue next to him is 450cm.
What is the actual height of the statue in
metres?

____________

40.

What is the angle covered by the minute hand

in 3 minutes?

____________

_________

44.

____________

The sum of the angles of a polygon is given by

the formula (n-2) x 180 where n is the number
of sides. What do the angles of a hexagon
add up to?
47.

Complete the series.

4 : 36 : 324 : 2916 : ?????
____________

____________
45. Michaels alarm was set for 6:25am. What was
the time 100 minutes later when he got out of
bed?

48.

If one drawer can hold 24 CDs, how many

drawers are needed to store 200 CDs?

____________

____________

49.

Simplify the expression:

(3n-2) (n-3)
____________

46.

What is the order of rotational symmetry of

the figure shown below?

50.

What is the ratio of vowels to consonants in

the word BOOTCAMP?

____________

END OF MAIN TEST

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Scholarship level Questions

S1.

S2.

Maia is packing sweets into boxes. First she tried

putting 10 in each box but there were 4 sweets left
over. Then she tried putting 12 in each box but one
box was left empty. How many sweets did she
have?

Maia had ____________ sweets

On the drawing below there are 2 lines (UPPER and

LOWER) which are the same distance apart at all
points. A diagonal line has been drawn which
crosses the first 2 lines at the points labelled as A
and B. A point C has been marked on the lower line
which is the same distance from A as B is and a line
has been drawn connecting point B with point C.
The midpoint of the line BC has been marked as D
and a line has been drawn from A through D to
cross the upper line at point E making an angle of
35o as shown. Please note that this diagram has
not been drawn to scale and you should not base
your answers on measurements taken from the
drawing.
i.

What sort of triangle is the triangle ABC?

____________

ii.

What is the angle shown at C?

____________

iii.

What can you say about the triangles ACD,

ABD and BDE?
_____________________________

END OF TEST
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