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Edexcel
3-Year Scheme of Work:
Term 4 Assessment
Higher Tier –
Answers

Breakdown by unit against Pearson Progression Steps:

Unit 9 Unit 10 Unit 11 Total
Q1 (2 marks)
7th Q3 (4) Q2 (4) 14
Q5 (4)
Q4 (2) Q6 (2) Q9 (3)
9th 18
Q8 (4) Q7 (4) Q13 (3)
Q11 (2)
10th Q10 (6) 13
Q12 (5)
12th Q14 (5) 5
Total 22 16 12 50
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Baseline Test 1 of Work
Term 4 Assessment: Higher Tier Answers

1 2   km/minute × 60 (1)

120  km/h (1)

2 a 1 – 0.8 or 1 – (0.3 + 0.15 + 0.25 + 0.1) (1)

0.2 (1)
b 200 × 2.3 (1)
60 (1)

3 Correctly solving inequality to find x > 3. (1)

Correct method to collect like terms in second inequality. (1)
x<5 (1)
3<x<5
4 (1)

4 (x – 3)(x + 5) (1)
x = 3, x = –5 (1)

5 8×4× = 16  cm2 (1)

16 × 4 = 64  cm3 (1)

(1)

0.8  g/cm3 (1)

6 0.6 × 0.4 (1)

0.24 (1)

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7 a

All probabilities on tree diagram correct. (2)

Award one mark for 0.3 or 0.4 on correct branch.
b 0.7 × 0.6 (1)
0.42 (1)

8 e.g.
2x + 3y = 9 (1) × 3: 6x + 9y = 27 (3)
3x + 2y = 16 (2) × 2: 6x + 4y = 32 (4) (1)
Correct method to find y = –1 (1)
Correct method to find x = 6 (1)
x = 6, y = –1 (1)

9 Multiplier of 1.045 or 1.03 seen. (1)

£4000 × 1.045 × 1.03
2 3
(1)
£4773.14 (1)

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10 a Begin to interpret the data e.g. 3 overlapping circles with central region correct. (1)
At least 5 regions correctly labelled. (1)

Correct Venn diagram (above) (1)

b (1)

c Probability with denominator of 18. (1)

(1)

11 One correct set of brackets. (1)

(3x – 2)(2x + 3) (1)

12 a (1)

b equating ‘their expression from a’ to 22 or = 22 (1)

x(x + 7) = 44
x2 + 7x – 44 = 0 (1)
(x – 4)(x + 11) = 0 (1)
x=4 (1)

13 s = 8= (1)

k=4

s  = or s = (1)

(s =) (1)

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14 equating x + 9 to x2 + 2x + 3 (1)
Simplifying to get x2 + x – 6 = 0 (1)
Factorising ‘their equation’ correctly to get (x – 2)(x + 3) = 0 (1)
x = 2 or x = –3 (1)
When x = 2, y = 11
When x = –3, y = 6
(2, 11), (–3, 6) (1)

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