2024 Year 7 Mathematics (Exam Preparation)

The questions here are meant for you to tackle as a way of preparing yourself for the
upcoming end of year exam. You should also be looking at old tests, homework
assignments, worksheets and exercises in your textbook (especially those towards
the end of a chapter). The MyiMaths website will also be very useful.

The end of year exams consist of two papers, each 1 hour long. The first paper is a
non-calculator paper. The second needs a calculator.

The topics that will be examined are:

Factors, Multiples & Primes BIDMAS

Symmetry and Transformations Statistical Diagrams
Fractions, Decimals & Percentages Angles
Polygons Algebra
Sequences Arithmetic of directed numbers
Rounding & Estimating Simple Probability
Perimeter, Area & Volume Time Problems

In the exam, you will answer all the questions in the spaces provided. There is no
choice in the exam – you answer every question on the paper. In other words, the
exams are just like the unit tests you have already tackled.

Just before half term, at least two lessons will be set aside for revision purposes.

An important part of your preparation should be to ask for help and advice from your
teacher (something you should actually be doing all the time!)

In the exam you will need a pen, pencil, ruler, protractor and compasses (and a
calculator for paper 2).
Practice Questions

1. Find the following:

(a) 16 – 3 x 2 (b) 63 (c) A quarter of (48 – 12) (d) 0.4 x 0.009

(e) 20% of 35 (f) 1.56 – 0.87 (g) (-3) – 7 (h) (-6) x (-8)

2. Round the following numbers to the degree of accuracy indicated:

(a) 693 (nearest 100) (b) 693 (nearest 10) (c) 0.569 (nearest whole number)
(d) 19.95 (1 decimal place) (e) 18.555 (2 decimal places)

3. What is the interior angle in an equilateral triangle?

4. The angles in a triangle are x0, (2x + 7)0 and 500. Find the smallest angle of the triangle.

5. Name the special quadrilateral with all four sides equal and no right-angles.

6. Look at the shape below:

(a) How many lines of symmetry does it have?

(b) What is the order of rotational symmetry of the
shape?

7. Change the following fractions to decimals:

(a) 2/5 (b) 23/100 (c) 9/20 (d) 1/4 (e) 12/25
8. Change the following decimals to fractions (in their simplest form):

(a) 0.2 (b) 0.44 (c) 0.05 (d) 0.005 (e) 0.665

9. Write down all the factors of:

(a) 120 (b) 64 (c) 88 (d) 200

10. Find the Highest Common Factor of 120 and 200

11. Find the Lowest Common Multiple of 8 and 6

12. Write down all the prime numbers between 80 and 100

13. Simplify the following algebraic expressions:

(a) x + 5x – y + 6y (b) 2(x + 3y) – 4x – y

14. Find the value of x in the following equations:

(a) 2x + 9 = 25 (b) 1 – x = 8 (c) 0.5x + 3 = 7 (d) 2x – 6 = x + 5

15. Name 3 quadrilaterals whose diagonals intersect at 900.

16. 20 students in a school of 160 are left-handed. What percentage is this?

17. Change the following quantities to the units that are given [in brackets]:

(a) 20cm [mm] (b) 20cm [m] (c) 8.9kg [g] (d) 0.6mm [cm]
(e) 0.6 hours [minutes]
 18. What is:

19. (a) The temperature dropped last night from 30C to -50C. What drop is this?
(b) The temperature this morning was -20C, then it increased by 120C by lunchtime. What was
the temperature at lunchtime?

20. After a statistical survey is made, it is found that in a year group of 36 students:

10 students have no pets

14 students have 1 pet
9 students have 2 pets, and
3 students have 3 pets

Represent this information on:

(a) a bar chart (b) a pie chart

21. I think of a number, double it and 6. The result is 16 more than the original number. What
was the number I originally thought of?

22. An isosceles triangle has one angle of 400. Write down two possibilities regarding what the
other two angles could be?

23. A girl writes each of the numbers from 1 to 20 on a card. Her friend then picks a card at
random. What is the probability that the number on the card is:

(a) 17 (b) Even (c) less than 12 (d) A factor of 20 (e) Prime?

24. I am a two-digit number. I have an odd number of factors. The sum of my digits is 13. What
number am I?
25. Look at the triangle below:
Not drawn
accurately
a°
2b°

a° b°

Find the size of angle a.

26. Look at the diagram below:

60°

Not drawn
accurately
b

c
130 °
a

Find the size of angles a, b and c and give a reason for each answer.

27. Which is bigger – one-quarter of 250m or 40% of 0.15km?

29. One tin of paint can cover 12m2 of wall. You need to cover the side wall of a warehouse. The
wall measures 45m by 7m. How many tins of paint must you buy?

30. A teacher announces the names of three students. What is the probability the names are
also announced in alphabetical order?
31. Fill in the table below. In the first column put “Always”, “Sometimes” or “Never”. In the
second column, give a reason. The first question is done for you:

Statement Always/Sometimes/Never Reason

It only gets bigger if the
If you multiply a positive
A Sometimes number you multiply by is
number, it gets bigger
bigger than 1
If you cube a number it gets
B
bigger
Triangles can have exactly 2
C
lines of symmetry
If you square an even number,
D
you get an even number
All whole numbers can be
E
written as fractions

F Prime numbers are odd

G All prime numbers are odd

32. You can often use algebra to explain how number puzzles work. Fill in the missing
expressions:
33.

Diagram NOT
127°
accurately drawn
114°
84°

97°

Four of the angles of a pentagon are 97°, 114°, 127° and 84°.

Work out the size of the fifth angle.

34. On the probability scale, mark with a cross (×) the probability that

(i) the last letter of a day of the week, chosen at random, is the letter y.
Label this cross A.
 a person chosen at random has a birthday in June.
(ii)
Label this cross B.

(iii)the next baby born is a girl.

Label this cross C.

35. Expand these brackets:

(a) 2(x + 4) (b) 3x (4x – 9)

36. I leave the house at 15:40 and run for 1 hour 35 minutes. What time do I finish running?

37. Find the value of 2a + c when a = 3 and c = - 7

38.

39.
40.

41.
Find the area of the following shapes
42. Find the volume of this cuboid

43.

(a) Measure this angle with a protractor (b) Draw an angle of 170 degrees

44. Rotate this shape around the point marked X 90 degrees clockwise
45.

a) Plot a scatter graph of this data, remembering to label your axes

b) Draw a line of best fit on the graph
c) State what the correlation is
d) A pupil gets a mark of 50 in English. What mark would you expect them to get in history?

46.

a) Find the nth term of this sequence:

10, 13, 16, 19, 22…

b) A difference sequence has the nth term rule 4n + 5. What is the 10th term?