Bluebells School

Selection TestInternation
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Class VI
Time Allowed:1 Hour Aseem roject Section
Name.

Five marks are awarded for each

correct answer to
Six marks are awarded for each correct answer to Questions
Each incorect answer to Questions 16-20
Questio 1-15.
loses 1 mark
Each incorect answer to Questions 21-25 loses 2
marks
1. Which of the following calculations gives the
A1-2+3+4 largest answer
B1+2-3+4
C1+2+3-4 D1+2-3-4

E1-2-3+4
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2. It has just turned 22:22. How many minutes are there until midnight
A 178 B1138

C 128 D1108

E 98

3. What is the value of 12345

+2+3+4+5

B8 C 678 D 823 E12 359

A1

4. In this partly completed pyramid, each rectangle is to be filled with the sum of the two
x?
numbers in the rectangles immediately below it. What number should replace

105
47
31

13

A3 B4 C5 D7 E 12

5. The difference between ofa certain number and of the same number is 3. What is
that number?
A 24 B 36 C 48

D60 E 72

110°
6. What is the value of in this
x triangle?

A 45 50 C 55
D 60 E 65

120
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c a l c u l a t i o n

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birthday.
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machine?
per year arouna world without
has herowing machine that he received for
B 500 since he was
A 200
given the
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E 4000 D 2000

Inthe expression
1 203 04 each
10.
fall the Disto be replaced by
expressions that can be
obtained in this either+or r x. What is the
A 10 B 14 C 15
way?
D 24
E 25
11. What is the smallest prime number that is the
sum of three
different prime numbers?
A11 B 15 17
D19 E 23
12. A fish weighs the total of 2 kg plus a third of ts own weight. What
is the weight of the fish in
kg?

A2 B3 C4 D6 E8

13. In the figure shown, each line joining two numbers is to be labelled with the sum of the two
numbers that are at its end points. How many of these
labels are mutiples of 3? 4 5

A 10 B9 C8
6

D7 E6
7
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14.
14. Digits
Dig on a calculator are
luminatedbars. resented by a num
18
and

in the The digits

them are shown umber of
h o r i z o n t a l

and the
represented by a diagram.
prime number ofHow many gitswhich
bars repese and

digit 456
prime

are both
AO
B1 illuminated bars?
ba

D3
E4
C2
23
15. Which of the
integers from following is . ******

divisible
inclusive? by all of the
1 to 10

A 23 x
34 ********************************************************
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B 34 x
45
D 56 C 45 x 56
x
67
E 67x 78B
16. The
diagram shows a square inside
What is the value an
of x+ y? equilateral triangle
A 105
B 120

C 135
D 150

E 165

17. Read the

statements by the knaves

Knave of Hearts: "I stole the

tarts."
Knave of Clubs: "The Knave of
Hearts is lying."
Knave of Diamonds: "The
Knave of Clubs is lying."
Knave of Spades: "The Knave of
Diamonds is lying."

How many of the four Knaves

were telling the truth?

A1 B2 C3

D4 E more information needed

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nd 36918
factions
uses the
the
simpt lified form of the digits 1 to 9eexactly once. The first fraction
the is
Each of
1 8s i m p l i f e s
t o
What

C second fraction
ion?
B

A
E
D c u b e s
iis
s t the smallest
cube that
following an be written
the Which
is
it?
as the sum of three
One
of
cubes.
B64
C 125
19
positive

A 2 7

E 512
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p y r a m i d
mad
up of 30 cubes,
of the whole pyramid (includingeach
a
diagram
shows

of thewhole
its
measuring 1 m x 1mx 1 m. What
base)?
area
The
20. suface
is the
total

B 62 square metre
metre

square
A 30

C 7 2squaremetre
D 152 square metre

metre
E 180 square

21. Gllis now27 and has moved into a new flat. She has four pictures to hang in a horizontal row
on a wall which is 4800 mm wide. The pictures are identical in size and are 420 mm wide. Gill
hangs the first two pictures so that one is on the extreme left of the wall and one is on the

eMreme night of the wall. She wants to hang the remaining two pictures so that all four
pecures are equally spaced. How far should Gill place the centre of each of the two remaining
pctures from a vertical line down the centre of the wall?

A210 mm D 840 mm E 1040 mm

B 520 mm C730 mm

2. The
diagram shows a shaded hexagon. The shaded region is divided
into
ins regular
region inside
shaded region a
equilateral triangles. What fraction
S,
fraction of the area of the hexagon is
shaded?

D
c E
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action

23. The diagram sho

areas 1 sq cm, four
4 sq cm, shaded
the corners of a 9
cm and 16sq glass squares, with
two others. The: rectangle. Thecm sq cm, placed in
area of the argest square overlaps
not covered byany
square
regior inside
the
cm. What is the areaa ot the (shown uns naded)rectange
is 1.5 sq
(shown dark grey)? region where
squares over
verlap
A 2.5 sq cm
B3 sq cm
C 3.5
sq cm
D 4sq cm *************************...

E 4.5 sq
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cm

24. A palindromic
number is a number
when the order
of its digits
is
reversed. What is the difference thatads
reads the same
same when tne palindromic
numbers that are both
oth multiples of4Ene
larnest and smallest
between the largest smallest five-digit
fiveagu p
multiples of 45?
A 9180 B 9090 C 9000 D 8910 E 8190

25. The four straight lines in the diagram are such that VU = W. The sizes of ZUXZ, ZVLand
ZVZX are *, y° and z'. Which of the following equations gives x in temms of y and z?

W
z
Y
Y
A. x=y-z B.x 180-y-z C. x=y-5

D. x= y+ Z-90 Ex=