Semestral Assessment 1: Mock Paper 1

Paper 1 (Duration: 50 mins)

Questions 1 to 10 carry 1 mark each and Questions 11 to 15 carry 2 marks each. For each
question, write the number corresponding to the correct option in the bracket provided.

Fill in the blank with an appropriate number that matches the pattern
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______, 900 000, 800 000, 700 000
(1) 10 000 (2) 100 000
(3) 1 000 000 (4) 10 000 000
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2. How many quarters are there in 3 ?
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(1) 3 (2) 5
(3) 10 (4) 14
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In order to have of the set below shaded, how many more squares must be
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shaded?

(1) 9 (2) 8
(3) 7 (4) 6
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4. Find the value of 24 + 48 ÷6 – 6

(1) 6 (2) 22
(3) 26 (4) 36
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5. What is the correct numeral for the following statement?

Six hundred and six thousand, six hundred and sixty six

(1) 606 606 (2) 606 666

(3) 666 606 (4) 660 660 ( )

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6. How many lines of symmetry are there in this letter?

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(1) 4 (2) 3
(3) 2 (4) 1
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7. If the product of 124 and 19 is calculated and rounded off to the nearest hundred,
what will be the final value?
(1) 2000 (2) 2300
(3) 2400 (4) 2360
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8. A car can travel 9 230m with 1l of fuel. 300l of fuel was consumed in a month. How
many kilometers did the car travel in that month?
(1) 2 769 (2) 27 690
(3) 276 900 (4) 2 769 000
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9. Mary’s weight is 27kg. She is

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as heavy as David. How much does David weigh?
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(1) 15 kg (2) 45 kg
(3) 54 kg (4) 84 kg
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10. Two numbers have a difference of 72 and a sum of 166. Find the bigger number.
(1) 138 (2) 119
(3) 94 (4) 49
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Sarimah bought 3 kg of flour. She then used 1 kg to bake cakes. After that, her
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mother gave her another 1 kg of flour. How much flour did she have eventually?
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(1) 3 kg (2) 3 kg
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(3) 2 kg (4) 1 kg ( )
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12. Caroline has 6 times as many stickers as Denise, but only half as many as Rachel
has. If Denise has 154 stickers less than Rachel, how many stickers does Caroline
have?
(1) 14 (2) 77
(3) 84 (4) 160
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13. Examine the pattern below carefully. How many sticks are there in the 18th pattern?

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Pattern 1 Pattern 2 Pattern 3 Pattern 4 Pattern 18
(1) 37 (2) 47
(3) 57 (4) 67
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14. Find the smallest value among the following expressions

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(1) 0.80 (2)
20
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(3) (4) 0.69
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15. In the figure below, ∠ AOB = 93o. What is ∠BOC? Note that AOC is a straight line
and the figure is not to scale.
C

93o A

(1) 3o (2) 87o

(3) 90o (4) 273o
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Questions 16 to 25 carry 1mark each. Write your answers in the spaces provided. For
questions which require units, give your answers in the units stated.

16. Write 9 080 011 in words.

17. Arrange these numbers in descending order.

8 883 008, 880 300, 8 880 003, 88 380

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18. What is the correct value of A?

7 000 000

7 503 906 A 3 000

3 906 900

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19. Find the total of the first 6 multiples of 7

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20. 49
Express as a mixed number 
9

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21. 5
Calculate x108 
9

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22. 2 1
Calculate 3 +2 and simplify your answer.
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23. What is the proportion of the shaded area compared to the whole square? Write the
answer in fraction.

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24. Find the largest possible odd number between 5 000 000 and 6 000 000 using all the
digits given.

9 0 1 7 2 6 5

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25. Write the following statement as a numeral
Three million one hundred and forty-seven thousand six hundred and eighty-two

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Questions 26 to 30 carry 2 marks each. Show your working clearly in the space below
each question and write your answers in the spaces provided. For questions which require
units, give your answers in the units stated.

26. Mr. Ben chose a sofa set that cost $5 250. He paid the exact amount in 90 pieces of
$100 and $50 notes. How many $50 notes did the cashier receive from Mr. Ben?

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27. 10 tables and 20 chairs cost $650.
20 tables and 10 chairs cost $850.
What is the cost of one table and one chair?

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28. Mr. Tan, a worker, had 850 long nails, 620 short nails and 930 medium nails in a
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container. He gave of these nails to his colleague and used of these nails to
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make tables. How many nails did he have left?

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29. An oil producer is filling two empty barrels with oil. The first barrel fills at a rate of
90l per minute. After 1 minute, he starts filling the second barrel at a rate of 105l per
minute. How many minutes will it take for the second barrel to contain the same
amount of oil as the first barrel?

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30. Mary and John were given the same amount of money by their mother. After
spending some of their money, Mary only has one-seventh as much money as John
had. If John spent $1 572 and Mary spent $2 892, how much did each of them have
at first?

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 Semestral Assessment 1: Mock Paper 1
Paper 2 (Duration: 1 hr 40 mins)

Questions 1 to 5 carry 2 marks each. Show your workings clearly in the space below each
question and write your answers in the space provided. For questions which require units,
give your answers in the units stated.

1. In a donation drive, team A and team B collected a total of $12 795. Team C and
team D collected a total of $17 245. Team A and team C collected the same amount
of money. Team D collected 6 times as much money as team B. How much money
did team D collect? 1 A + 1 B = $12795
1 A + 6 B = $17245
A 5 B = $17 245 - 12 795
$12 795
5 B = $4 450
B 1 B = $890
Team D = 6 B = $890 x 6 = $5 340
C
$17 245
D

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A shop is selling gloves for Christmas. of the pairs are red, of the pairs are
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white and the remaining 114 pairs are dark blue. How many pairs of gloves does the
shop have in total?
3 units = 114
red 3/8
total 8 units = 114/3 x 8 = 304 pairs
white 1/4= 2/8

dark blue 3/8 (114 pairs)

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3. 1 kg of pork cost $2 more than 1 kg of chicken. 1 kg of beef cost $3 more than 1kg
of pork. Aunt Linda spent a sum of $99.60 on 6 kg of each type of meat. How much
did she spend on the chicken and the beef?
Let x be the cost of 1kg chicken. 6C + 6B = 6x + 6(x+5)
= 6 x 3.20 + 6 x 3.20 + 30
C: $x 6C + 6P + 6B = $99.60 = 19.20 + 19.20 + 30
P: C+2 = $ x+2 6x + 6(x+2) + 6(x+5) = $99.60 = $68.40
B: P+3 = $ x+5 6x + 6x + 12 + 6x + 30 = $ 99.60
18x = 99.60 - 12- 30
18x = 57.60
x = $3.20

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$68.40

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4. Cheese cakes are sold at $6.90 for 3. Curry puffs are sold at $5.20 for 4.

(a) If Timmy could only spend $25 on each type of food, how many more curry puffs
than cheese cakes could he buy?

(b) Bobby paid $129.60 for an equal number of cheese cakes and curry puffs. How
many cheese cakes and curry puffs did he buy altogether?

Ans: _____________________
5. Peter wants to send a parcel to his friend in Indonesia. At the post office, he finds the
following table which shows the postage rates:

Mass not over Postage

First 30g $1.00
Next 50g $1.70
Per additional step of 25g $0.35

How much does Peter have to pay if his parcel weighs 197g?

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For Questions 6 to 18, show your workings clearly in the space provided for each
question and write your answers in the spaces provided. The number of marks awarded is
shown in brackets at the end of each question. (50 marks)

6. Given that AB is a line of symmetry in the figure below. Shade the squares to
complete the symmetric figure

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7. The average number of Peter’s stickers and Jordan’s stickers is 924. Peter has 232
more stickers than Jordan. Albert has 172 stickers more than Peter. What fraction of
Albert’s stickers are Jordan’s stickers? Write your answer in its simplest form

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8. Three years from now Dan’s father’s age will be thrice Dan’s age. How old is Dan’s
father now if he was 34 years old when Dan was born?

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9. The houses along a road are numbered from 1 to 150. The house number signs are
made of steel digits. How many digits are needed altogether to number the entire
road?

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10. Find the perimeter of the figure below.
5 cm
5 cm
9 cm

8 cm B
A
7 cm

13 cm
4 cm

36 cm

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11. A shop sells carpets at $15 per square meter. Uncle Tay wants to buy a carpet for his
living room, which is 10m by 7m. How much does he have to pay?

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12. When 60 packs of cookies are placed in a box, the total mass is 6 790g. When the
same box contains 25 packs of cookies, the mass is 4 655g. Find the mass of the box
in kg.

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13. Each tourist has to pay $1 215 for a 5-day tour to Vietnam. If there were 116 tourists
who chose that tour last month, how much did the travel agency receive?

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14. Create a tessellation in the space provided by drawing 4 more unit shapes.

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15. Alex, Ben and Carl collected a total of 2 151 stamps. Alex collected 224 stamps
fewer Carl. Ben’s collection was 3 times as many as Carl’s. How many stickers did
Carl have?

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16. How many lines of symmetry are there in the figure below, given that all line
segments are equal

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17. A water tank 90 cm long, 40 cm wide and 15 cm high needed to be filled by two taps
A and B. Tap A, which had a flow rate of 12l per minute, was turned on first. After
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1 minutes, tap B, which can flow only as fast as tap A, was turned on and both
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tap continued to fill the tank. Since both taps were turned on, how long did it take to
fill the tank completely? Express your answer in minutes and seconds.

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18. A number of trees were planted around the perimeter of a rectangular parcel of land
that was 49m long and 35m wide. There was a tree in each corner. On each side of
the land trees were planted 7m apart. How many trees were there in total?

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