UKiset Assessment (14+)

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Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes

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This assessment is comprised of 4 sections:

1.) Verbal reasoning (10 minutes)

2.) Non-Verbal Reasoning (10 minutes)

3.) Maths (20 minutes)

4.) English | Reading & Writing (50 minutes)

Your answers will be evaluated for course recommendation and consultation advisory.

Instructions

• Please try to answer all questions

• Mathematics - show your working where possible

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 Vocabulary

You should spend no more than 10 minutes on this task.

Select the word or phrase with the closest meaning.

1. Unify Unite 7. Calm Reassure

Emerge Modify
Mingle Unify
Squad Agitate

2. Decline Resign 8. Tremble Terror

Spill Leaves
Change Shake
Turn down Nerves

3. Exhale Breath 9. Disclose Trap

Breathe out Arrest
Breathe Prevent
Breathe in Reveal

4. Simple Cheap 10. Commence Renew

Honest Work
Plain Find
Normal Begin

5. Rival Winner 11. Entreat Defeat

Fighter Appeal
Competitor Surrender
Friend Conquer

6. Iris Lens 12. Reservoir Store

Retina Energy
Colored part of eye Water
Pupil Supply
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 Vocabulary

13. Mesmerise Enthral 19. Refrain Refurbish

Bore Create
Memorise Persist
Occupy Abstain

14. Dank Damp 20. Identical Distanced

Heavy Wasteful
Dark Gifted
Dingy Matching

15. Lethargy Feeling of illness 21. Subside Strengthen

Sadness Disobey
Tiredness Fade
Green Depress

16. Pensive Thoughtful 22. Futile Hopeless

Quick Helpless
Wise Hopeful
Written Helpful

17. Digress Deviate 23. Abatement Reduction

Divide Revival
Dawdle Punishment
Fruitful Disillusion

18. Sanctuary Massacre 24. Dismember Tear apart

Refuge Join
Reprieve Leave
Chamber Argue

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 Non-Verbal Reasoning (2D Shapes)

You should spend no more than 10 minutes on the next 12 questions.

Which larger shape is the small shape hidden in? Circle the correct answer.

An example is given below.

Example:

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 Non-Verbal Reasoning (3D Shapes)

Which of the cubes below can be made from the nets shown? Circle the correct answer.

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 11. What is the shape of this cross-section?

A) Square

B) Semicircle

C) Triangle

D) Circle

12. A cube with a cylinder from its centre is cut along the plane shown below.

Which of the following is a cross-section of this solid?

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 Mathematics

You should spend around 20 minutes on this section.

1. Boris earns £840 each week. He is given a 12.5% pay rise. How much does he earn
each week after the pay rise?

£ ____________

[1]

2. What number must be added to 100 and to 20 (the same number to each) so that
the sums are in ratio 3:1?

____________

[1]

3. The equations of four lines are given below:

Line A y = 4x +1

Line B y + 2x = 8

Line C y = 9 -2x
Line D y - 3x = 3

Which lines go through the point (2,9) ?

____________ [2]

4. Solve 17x - 25 = 2 (5x + 5)

x =______________ [2]

5. The sum of two numbers is 84 and one of them is 12 more than the other; what are the
two numbers?

______________ [1]

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 Mathematics

6. After nine games, the mean number of baskets scored a a basketball team is 69.

If, after one more game,

a) they score 20 more baskets, what is the new mean?

______________ [1]

b) they score no extra baskets, what is the new mean?

______________ [1]

c) the new mean is 70.9, how many baskets did they score in this game?

______________ [1]

7. A football team plays some games in a season. Each game was a win, a draw, or a loss.
The ratio of games they won to the games they did not win was 9:7.

The ratio of games they lost to game to the games they did not lose 1:7.

Given the team played less than 50 games, work out the highest amount of games they
could have won.

______________ [2]

8. Simplify

a) — =

b) 411 x 413 =

[2]

9. Rationalise

______________ [2]
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 Mathematics

10. x2 + 8x + 15 = 0

______________ [2]

11. What is (5.8 x 10-8) + (2.43 x 10-6)

______________ [1]

12. The cost of tickets for a play is £3.00 for adults and £2.00 for children.

350 tickets were sold and £950 was collected.

How many tickets of each type were sold?

Adults = ______________

Children = ______________

[2]

13. Work out the size of the angle marked x

Give reasons for your answer

CDEF is a straight line

AB is parallel to CF
DE = AE

x = ______________

Reason: ___________________________________________________________________________

[3]

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14. A rectangular garden measures 12m x 6m.

A walkway is installed around it width of x metres (diagram below).

Together, the walkway and the garden have an area of 396 square metres.

Find the width of the walkway.

The following information will help:

Length of rectangle = 2x + 16

Width of rectangle = 2x + 12

Area of rectangle = 396m2

x = ______________

[3]

15. Below is a circle with centre C.

AB and BD are tangents to the circle.

Angle ABD is is 42o

Find the angle x

x°

x°

x = ______________

[3]

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 English | Reading 1

You should spend no more than 5 minutes on this task.

For questions 1-10, choose the answers that best fit each gap.

Example:

0) Unfortunately there is always a _________ of nurses in this hospital.

A reduction B shortage C need D requirement

1) Some brand names are ________ with good quality or good taste.
A synonymous B equivalent C similar D alike

2) You shouldn’t take his figures at face ________, because he’s come up with
unreliable ones before.
A worth B meaning C value D importance
3) On the way back to the hospital, the doctor decided to look ________ on Mrs
Thompson.
A up B over C in D out
4) ________ of my parents speaks a foreign language.

A Both B Either C Neither D None

5) James Hines was the first man who ________ to run 100 meters in less than 10
seconds.

A achieved B realised C succeeded D managed

6) As the son of wealthy parents, Alex’s circumstances are ________ that he has
no need to work whatsoever.
A so B more C only D such
7) It’s time you ________ your homework on your own.
A are doing B did C did D will do

8) Caroline liked the look of the job in the advertisement but was ________ off by
the long hours involved.
A taken B brought C put D set

9) The children are ________ asleep - now I can relax.

A deeply B hard C fast D dead

10) The new director ________ off a successful business deal for the company.
A passed B made C brought D saw
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 English | Reading 2A

You should spend no more than 5 minutes on this task.

For questions 1-4, read the text below and write one word that best fits each gap.

Example

0. the

A Famous Painter

Hokusai, the great Japanese painter in the mid-1830s, said: ‘Nothing I did before 0) _______

age of 70 was worthy of attention. At 73, I began to grasp the structures of birds and
down
beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go (1) ________ trying, I will surely
get
understand them still better by the time I am 86, so that by 90 I will (2) ________ penetrated

their essential nature. At 100, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them,
on
while at 130, 140, or more I will be (3) ________ the stage where every dot and every stroke

I paint is alive’, Hokusai got to 89, and produced some of his best work

in
(4) ________ later life. While art history has many greats who died early, the truth is people

who make careers of their creative urges more commonly live into a productive old age. 


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 English | Reading 2B

You should spend no more than 5 minutes on this task.

For questions 1-4, read the text below and write one word that best fits each gap.

Example

0. what

Cat Island
On the Japanese island of Tashirojima, the cats outnumber people, and the people like it that way.
what
It’s no accident that the cats who inhabit Tashirojima, or 0) _______ has become known as

‘Cat Island’, have come to be the island’s primary residents. The cats have long been
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thought (1) ________ as representing luck and good fortune, and doubly so if you feed and
while
care for them. thus, the cats are treated like royalty and (2) ________ most are wild, they
even with
are well fed and cared for. (3) ________ all these efforts, luck and fortune haven’t exactly

come to the human residents of ‘Cat Island’. In the last 50 years, Tashirojima’s human
result
population has dwindled from 1,000 to fewer than 100. As a (4) ________ of people

shunning the island, felines have gradually dominated it while the remaining residents have

become ever more protective of the cats.

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 English | Reading 3

You should spend no more than 15 minutes on this task.

Choose the answer that you think fits best according to the text.

Ebooks

The websites are peddling a by now familiar message. Your Way to Fame and Fortune! screams
one. A Miracle of the 21st Century declares another. There are dozens more, all pushing a
similar message: anybody can now become a successful author. They claim that you don’t a
literary agent, you don’t even need to be a brilliant prose stylist, and — best of all — you don’t
need a publisher. apparently, all you have to do is pen your masterpiece and release it yourself
as an electronic book, or ‘ebook’, for people around the world to enjoy on their e-readers,
tablets, cellphones or other devices yet to be invented.

The self-publishing revolution is here, and it’s not just hyperbolic websites that are proclaiming
it: recently, in the basement of an old bookshop, I found the author Ted Jones hosting a
workshop for a small circle of aspiring writers. Surrounded by symbolic piles of musty old
books, the beard author declared that ‘print books are essentially doomed’, and spoke of trying
to ‘tear down the walls between authors and readers’, to revolutionize the way readers interact
with his work.

Jones has a growing readership for his work, which includes science fiction stories and
historical fiction. He is one of a burgeoning band of authors who have turned away from the
old-fashioned publishing systems to go it alone, and put out their literature in ebook format.
Having found success as a do-it-alone author, Jones wants to spread his wisdom and
encourage people to follow him. His persuasive tome, Self-Publishing Made Easy, has shifted
thousands of copies. For now, he still has to supplement his ebook income with freelance
editing jobs. ‘But I expect to be a full-time self-published author by early next year,’ he says.

Some have earned a lot of money through self-publishing. The eMillion Club — the unofficial
society for writers who have sold a million ebooks — includes those who have become
household names, such as Elaine Smith, whose online horror stories led to spectacular
earnings. But DIY publishing isn’t always the fast track to giving up the day job. A recent survey
showed that the average sum earned by go-it-alone authors last year was far below the
national average salary.

Many of the prophets of the industry predict that ebooks and self-publishing will continue to
grow. Not only are they transforming the publishing industry, they are also profoundly
transforming literature, according to jones. ‘In the past,’ he writes in one of his many online
blogs, ‘writers were restricted by what their agent or editor thought would sell. They were steered
away from horror, laughed at if they suggested a cowboy western story, and disabused of any
notions of penning short stories or novellas. But it turns out there is a market for all that stuff’.

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 English | Reading 3

1) What does the writer imply about ebooks in the first paragraph?

A. Publishing companies are opposed to them.

B. They have increased sales of mobile technology.

C. Writing them may not be as easy as some people assert.

D. They have led to a decline in sales of traditional books.

2) According to the text, the author Ted Jones

A. hopes that writers will form professional networks.

B. uses a website to publicize his workshops.

C. wants to change his relationship with his audience.

D. runs a group for admirers of his writing.

3) What does the writer of the article say about Ted Jones’s writing?

A. It has inspired people who have been ignored by publishers.

B. It covers different literary genres.

C. Its success has prevented him from doing other jobs.

D. It hasn’t been so successful in print.

4) What does the writer of the article say about trying to earn money through self-publishing?

A. You have more change of getting rich quickly.

B. It’s more profitable than other kids of online work.

C. The majority of people underestimate its possibilities.

D. There are significant differences in income among writers.

5) Ted Jones gives the example of cowboy western stories to demonstrate

A. the freedom writers have when self-publishing.

B. the change in readers’ taste in recent times.

C. the influence that self-publishing has had on literary agents.

D. the need to return to older themes in literature.

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 English | Writing

You should spend around 25 minutes on this task and write no less than 250 words.

What are your thoughts on mobile phones? Discuss whether or not it would be replaced by
something else.

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