10+ Entrance information and materials
It is assumed that candidates are following the Year 5 Programme for Study of Mathematics,
available via the DfE website
(https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_dat
a/file/335158/PRIMARY_national_curriculum_-_Mathematics_220714.pdf start page 31)
If any unfamiliar notation is used it will be fully explained in the question. Some of the
questions near the end of the paper are intended to be of an original nature so may seem
unfamiliar to students but will draw from mathematical thinking skills being developed in
Primary Schools.
TRINITY SCHOOL CROYDON
ENTRANCE EXAMINATION PRACTICE QUESTIONS
MATHEMATICS
(1 hour)
Instructions to Candidates
1. Write your name at the top of this question paper
2. Try all of the questions. Do not spend too much time on any one question -
go on to the next.
You can go back to a question if you have time at the end.
3. Show all necessary working in the space provided. DO NOT RUB OUT
ANY WORKING unless you wish to change it.
4. Answers should be written on the answer line provided.
5. Do not write anything in the margins.
6. Calculators are not allowed.
1 Add: 3079 + 2975 + 453 2 Subtract: 3147 − 959
This is
the
number
of marks
for the
question
3 Answer: ................................... 3 Answer: ...................................
3 Multiply: 57 48 4 What is 2012 divided by 4?
3 Answer: ................................... 3 Answer: .....................................
5 Find one twelfth of £120 6 a) Write down the number two hundred and
five thousand, three hundred and six in
figures.
Answer: .........................................
(b) Write down in words, the value of the 5
in the number 546027
2 Answer: ................................... 2 Answer: ..........................................
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7 Bharat buys two bottles of water at 85p 8 Jill pours out five 23 cl glasses of water
each and four bars of chocolate at 72p from a full 150 cl bottle. How many cl are
each. How much does he spend left in the bottle?
altogether? Give your answer in £’s.
3 Answer: £................................... 3 Answer: ...................................cl
9 My train left Waterloo station at 2.37 in the 10 Jenny thinks of a number. She adds
afternoon. Write this time in the 24 hour seventeen and then divides by six. Her
clock. answer is five. What is the number that
Jenny first thought of?
Answer: ...................................
If the journey lasted two hours and forty-
eight minutes, at what time did I arrive at
my destination?
3 Answer: ................................... 2 Answer: .....................................
11 A car travels at an average of 30 miles per 12 How many seconds are there in eight
hour. How long would it take to travel 10 minutes?
miles? Give your answer in minutes.
2 Answer: ................................. minutes 2 Answer: ...................................seconds
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13 For each part, put the values in numerical 14 Add together 3 kg, 94g and 1kg 9g.
order, smallest first. Give your answer in grams.
(a) 0.902 0.092 0.92
.......... .......... ..........
1 1 1
(b) 4 5 3
.......... .......... ..........
(c) 0.89m 90 mm 90cm
.......... .......... ..........
6 3 Answer: ...................................g
15 Look at the pattern below which continues for ever (but I did not have time to write out all the
numbers!).
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17
Choose one word from this list which best describes this pattern of numbers
Square Factors Odd Even Prime Answer ……………….
Which number comes next? Answer ……………….
The fifth number in the list is 9. What do you think the 45th number in the list will be?
Answer ……………….
What is the sum of the first six numbers in the list?
Answer ……………….
Another pattern is described as being the numbers that are two less than a multiple of 3. The
first number in this pattern is also 1. Write down the next four numbers in this pattern.
Answer ………………..........................................................
6
16 Here are parts of two different number lines. Write in the number indicated by the arrow.
(a) (b)
4 4 14 970 990
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17 There are 35 children in Anita’s class.
One fifth of the children have blue eyes and the rest have brown eyes.
There are 13 boys of which 4 have blue eyes.
Use the information to complete the table. Number Number
of boys of girls
Blue
4
eyes
Brown
eyes
3
18
This table shows the distance between some British towns. It shows that the distance between
Bristol and Kendal is 236 kilometres.
a) How far is it from Leeds to Exeter? ………………………………………….
b) What are the furthest two towns on the chart? ………………………………………………
c) I live in Dover but need to visit my son in Cambridge and from there go on to my daughter
in Leeds before returning directly home. What total distance will I travel?
6 Answer: .................... km
19 A square has perimeter 36 cm. 20 In a rectangle the length is 17 cm. The
Write the side lengths on the sketch below perimeter of the rectangle is 48 cm. Find
and calculate its area. the width of the rectangle.
2 Answer: .................... cm2 3 Answer: ....................
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21 Fill in the missing numbers 22 Will is double the age of Bob and eight
years older than Suzanne. If Suzanne is
twenty years old, how much older than Bob
a) 8 × 80 = 16 × ........................ is Suzanne?
b) 60 × ..........................= 2400
c) ..........................÷ 1000 = 60
d) 275 ÷ ..........................= 2.75
4 3 Answer …………………..
23 The diagram shows the points
y B (1, 4) and C.
10
What are the co-ordinates of C?
9
Answer: C (…. , ….)
8
7
Add, and label the point D (7,6)
6
If BCDE is a straight line with B,
5 C×
C, D and E all equally spaced and
B× in that order, mark and label the
4
point E on the diagram.
3 Write down the co-ordinates of E
Answer: E (…. , ….)
2
The point F (a, 8) would be on the
1 same straight line if the graph was
x extended. Find the value of a.
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Answer: a= ………..
4
24 Draw the reflection of the triangles in the mirror lines (shown in bold).
a) b)
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25 Zahra has twenty coloured beads in a bag. She has 10 red beads, 5 green beads and 5 yellow
bead. Zahra takes out a bead at random from the bag.
Using the probability scale below, mark these points on the scale.
Mark with an R the probability that Zahra takes out a red bead.
Mark with a G the probability that the bead is green.
Mark with a W the probability that the bead is white.
Mark with an N the probability that the bead is not yellow.
Impossible Even Chance Certainty
0 0.5 1
4
26 The four angles inside a quadrilateral always add up to 360.
Use this fact to find the missing angles in the following quadrilaterals:
a) If one angle is 120 and the b) Three of the angles are 53, c) The two largest angles are
other angles are equal to each 88and 137. Find the size of equal and the two smallest
other, find the size of the the other angle. angles are equal. The larger
three other angles. angles are five times the size
of the smaller angles.
Find the size of the larger
angles.
6 Answer …………………… Answer …………………… Answer ……………………
27 Peter is making some orange squash. The directions on the bottle say that he should use three
parts water to one part of concentrate.
a) He has 90 cl of water, how much squash b) Next day he followed the instructions again
can he make if he follows the instructions? and made 280 cl of squash. How much water
did he use this time?
3 Answer ……………………cl Answer ……………………cl
THIS IS THE END OF THE EXAM. PLEASE GO BACK AND
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