QUESTIONS 1 TO 10 ARE WORTH
3 MARKS EACH
4. Evaluate
1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + 9 + 10 + 9 + 8 + ⋯ + 2 + 1
1. Find the missing number.
3 , 4 , 7 , 11 , 18 , (
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
) , 47 , …
27
28
29
31
None of the above
89
90
99
100
None of the above
5. Find the 50th digit in
3 5 8 0 3 5 8 0 3 5…
2. How many cubes are there in the
figure below?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
3
5
8
0
None of the above
6. Find the value of the star.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
13
14
15
16
17
3. Find the value of M.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
3
4
5
6
7
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5
6
7
8
None of the above
7. Find the missing figure below.
9. My grandmother is 56 years old.
My mum is 31 years old.
I am 7 years old.
In how many years is the sum of our
ages 100?
(A)
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
(B)
(C)
5
4
3
2
1
(D)
10. What time should come next in the
sequence below?
(E) None of the above
8. Find the missing number.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
31
33
29
32
None of the above
2
5:10
5:20
5:30
5:40
5:50
PM
PM
PM
PM
PM
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QUESTIONS 11 TO 20 ARE WORTH
4 MARKS EACH
13. Which of the following figures can be
traced without lifting your pencil and
11. Mohammed wrote the numbers 1 to
without tracing over the same lines?
24 on the whiteboard as shown:
1 2 3 4 5 6…2 2 2 3 3 2 4
How many times did he write the
digit ‘2’ altogether?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
5
6
7
8
9
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
12. Basket A has 54 apples. Basket B has
18 apples. Cindy moves 6 apples at a
All
All
All
All
All
except Fig 1
except Fig 2
except Fig 3
except Fig 4
of the above
time from Basket A to Basket B. How
many times must she do this so that
both baskets have the same number 14. The digits 2, 4 and 7 can form six
of apples?
different 2-digit numbers. What is the
difference between the largest and
smallest of these numbers?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
3
4
5
6
None of the above
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48
50
52
54
None of the above
15. There are 26 chickens and rabbits in 17. What do we get if all the figures are
a farm. The farmer counted 80 legs
stacked on top of each other?
together.
How many rabbits are there on the
(A)
farm?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
14
15
16
17
None of the above
(B)
(C)
16. How many triangles are there in the
figure below?
(D)
(E) None of the above
18. John
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
paid
$12
for
2
pens
and
2 pencils. Mark paid $22.50 for 2 pens
7
8
9
10
11
and 5 pencils. How much is a pencil?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
4
$3.20
$3.50
$3.80
$4.10
$4.30
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19. Shawn stays in the 6th floor of an 22. There are 7 days in a week. If today
apartment block. Jessie stays in the
is Tuesday, on which day of the week
3rd floor of the same block. If Shawn
is the 100th day from today?
takes 4 minutes to walk from the
1st floor to Jessie’s apartment. How
long, in minutes, does he take to
23. The masses below are measured in
grams.
walk from the 1st floor to his own
apartment?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
6
8
10
12
None of the above
20. Find the value of the square.
What is the mass of A?
24. Each
row
represents
one
of
the
following numbers: 892, 485, 364, 624.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
67
79
83
87
None of the above
QUESTIONS 21 TO 25 ARE WORTH
6 MARKS EACH
21. Find the sum of first 48 numbers in:
1 ,3 ,5 ,7 ,8 ,1 ,3 ,5 ,7 ,8 ,1 ,3 ,…
Which number does Row 2 represent?
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25. 97 numbers are arranged in the
sequence as shown below.
What number does M represent?
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Paper A – Answers
Multiple-Choice Questions
Questions 1 to 10 carry 3 marks each.
Q1
C
Q2
E
Q3
C
Q4
D
Q5
B
Q6
E
Q7
B
Q8
A
Q9
D
Q10
C
Questions 11 to 20 carry 4 marks each.
Q11
D
Q12
A
Q13
C
Q14
B
Q15
A
Q16
D
Q17
B
Q18
D
Q19
C
Q20
C
Free-Response Questions
Questions 21 to 25 carry 6 marks each.
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