1.

This is Johns birthday cake.

3.

Which other shape could belong to this

group?

How many candles are on his cake?

(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
2.

5
6
7
8

(A)
(A)

(B)
(B)

(C)
(C)

(D)
(D)

In the game below, Rita can only move

along the lines, one dot at a time.
START

4.

FINISH

(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)

Lim makes toy cars.

Each car has 4 wheels.

How many cars can he make using these

wheels?

What is the least number of moves

Rita can make to get from START to
FINISH?

Here is a group of shapes.

(A) 6
(B) 8
(C) 12
(D) 24

2
4
5
6

7.

5.

These are the six faces of a die.

Which is the missing piece?

This picture shows two dice.

(A)

(B)

On these two dice, what is the total

number of dots that are not shown?

(C)

6.

(D)

(A) 24
(B) 21
(C) 18
(D) 6

Here is a cube.
8.

(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)

Which net below will fold to make a cube?

Which of these has the same value as

5800?

58
58
58
58

ones
tens
hundreds
thousands

9.

Polly has these weights.

100
100 g
g
100 g

100
100 g
g
100 g

10. These five counters are overlapped and

arranged into a row. The area covered by
the five counters is 31 units.

50
50 g
g 50
50 g
g 50
50 g
g
50 g 50 g 50 g

25
77 g
25 g
g 25
25 g
g 25
25 g
g
g 77 g
g
25 g 25 g 25 g
7g 7g
She balances this scale using all the
weights except one.

Two counters are taken away. The area

covered by the remaining three counters
is 19 units.

What is the area of one counter

(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)

Which weight is not used?

100
100 g
g
100 g
(A)
(A)
(A)

50
50 g
g
50
g
(B)
(B)
(B)

25
25 g
g
25
g
(C)
(C)
(C)

77 g
g
7
g
(D)
(D)
(D)

4
5
6
7

units
units
units
units

END OF PAPER

QUESTION

KEY

SOLUTION

Correctly count the candles. There are

7 candles on the cake.

STRAND

LEVEL OF
DIFFICULTY

Number and
Arithmetic

Easy

Moving from one dot to the next counts as

one move. Two south-west and four southeast moves (or four south-east and two southwest) are the minimum required to get from
START to FINISH.

Space and
Geometry

Easy

The set consists of shapes that are triangles.

Space and
Geometry

Easy

There are 24 wheels. Each car needs four

wheels. Divide 24 by 4 to work out the number
of cars Lim can make.
24 divided by 4 equals 6.

Number and
Arithmetic

Easy

Shape D consists of two regular hexagons

joined together. It is the shape that fills the
gap.

Space and
Geometry

Easy

D correctly folds to make a cube.

Space and
Geometry

Medium

On the first die, faces 4, 5 and 6 are not shown.

On the second die, faces 1, 3 and 5 are not
shown. Therefore, the total of the numbers
that are not shown is 24.

Number and
Arithmetic

Medium/Hard

The number 5800 has 5 thousands (which

is equal to 50 hundreds) and 8 hundreds.
Altogether, it is 58 hundreds.

Number and
Arithmetic

Medium/Hard

100g + 50g + 25g + 25g + 7 g = 100g + 50g

+ 50g + 7g. Therefore, only two of the 25g
weights are used. Thus, the only weight not
used is 25g.

Number and
Arithmetic

Hard

Area of five counters Area of three counters

= 31 19 =12 (Area of two counters)
Area of three counters Area of two counters
= 19 12 = 7 (Area of one counter)

Measurement

Hard

10

Level of difficulty refers to the expected level of difficulty for the question.
Easy

more than 70% of candidates will choose the correct option

Medium

about 5070% of candidates will choose the correct option

Medium/Hard

about 3050% of candidates will choose the correct option

Hard

less than 30% of candidates will choose the correct option