The North London Independent Girls' Schools' Consortium: Group 2
The North London Independent Girls' Schools' Consortium: Group 2
SCHOOLS’ CONSORTIUM
Group 2
YEAR 7
ENTRANCE EXAMINATION
MATHEMATICS
Surname: ..........................................................................................................
Instructions:
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5
5. Work out 7
of 84
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6. Write down the next two numbers in the sequence.
8. Which number is one hundred less than three thousand and sixteen?
Answer: ..............................................
19 ⴛ 3 28 ⴛ 2
11. Draw lines from the centre to help you shade 20% of this shape.
12. Sherry’s train to Bristol was scheduled to leave at 13:40 and to arrive at 14:20
However, the train left eight minutes late and then took 47 minutes.
Answer: ..............................................
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15. (a) Daniel and Bella are playing a game.
When Daniel calls out a number, Bella multiplies it by 3 and then subtracts 5 and
writes down the result.
For example, when Daniel calls out 2, Bella writes down 1
They record the numbers in a table.
Complete the table below.
Work out what Erin does to each number that Claire calls out.
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3
In the questions that follow, choosing from Cameron’s cards, write numbers on the
blank cards to make:
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17. The information on a pack of ‘Salmon pasta’ is shown in the table.
NUTRITION
per 100 g
Protein 10 g
Carbohydrate 15 g
Fat 5g
Fibre 2g
Salt 0.5 g
Answer: ........................................... g
Answer: .......................................... %
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Class 6A 13 23
Class 6B 15
total 25 48
Answer: ..............................................
(c) What fraction of the children who do not play tennis are in class 6B?
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(c) 42.5 ⴛ 67
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20. In a magic square, the sum of the numbers in each row, each column and each diagonal
is the same.
9 6 12
4 1
Answer: ..............................................
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22. In a box of shapes there are three times as many squares as there are circles.
There are twice as many triangles as squares.
Answer: ..............................................
Bus P Bus Q
15 19 13 18 20
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11 12 13 14
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27. Which is more likely, rolling a 3 with an unbiased die with six faces, or getting a head
with a fair coin?
Answer: ......................................................................................
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28. Reflect the shaded shape in the mirror line.
mirror line
29. In the long jump competition, children recorded their results in a bar chart:
Edith
Daya
Clara
Bella
Anna
Answer: ........................................ cm
Answer: .......................................... m
Answer: £ ...........................................
(c) How many coins will Penny need for a 1 kilometre line of 10p coins?
Answer: ..............................................
Answer: £ ...........................................
31. Joanna was born on 19 August 2004 and her mother, Wendy, was born on the same
date 26 years earlier.
(b) In which year, on 1st January, will Wendy’s age be three times Joanna’s age?
Answer: ..............................................
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32. Six girls took a maths test.
(a) What is the difference between the highest and lowest marks?
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Ashleigh’s mark was seven more than Bella’s mark and six less than Connie’s mark.
Answer: ..............................................
33. Amira checks the time when she sets off on her journey to school in the morning.
12 1
11
10 2
9 3
8 4
7 6 5
At twenty minutes to eight, Amira stops to buy an apple from the shop.
Amira spends five minutes at the shop before walking another twenty-three minutes
to get to school.
Answer: ...............................................
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(c) What percentage of the girls play in the hockey team but not in the netball team?
Answer: .......................................... %
(d) What fraction of the girls who play netball also play hockey?
Answer: ..............................................
35. The diagram shows two squares. The larger square has
perimeter 16 cm.
not to scale
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36. Bertie the Bee flies in straight lines from A, 10 cm to B and then from B to C which
is 10 cm due south of A.
Below is an accurate diagram of Bertie’s route.
N
10 cm
A B
10 cm
(a) On the list below, circle the direction that Bertie flies to get from B to C.
Answer: ........................................ cm
(a) What is the maximum number of matchboxes that could fit, in one layer, onto a
tray that is 20 cm long and 15 cm wide?
Answer: ..............................................
(b) What is the maximum number of matchboxes that could be fitted into a box
measuring 18 cm by 25 cm by 10 cm?
Answer: ..............................................
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38. A rhombus has been drawn on the grid below.
y
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 x
Write the letter names of the points that lie inside the rhombus.
Answer: ..............................................
39. In order to convert from the imperial units ounces and pounds to the metric unit
kilograms, you should use the following conversions:
16 ounces = 1 pound
2.2 pounds = 1 kg
Circle the mass in kilograms which gives the best approximation of the mass of a
newborn tiger cub.
(b) Complete the table showing the number of lines, dots and small triangles in each
pattern.
pattern number 1 2 3 4
number of small triangles 1 4
perimeter (cm) 3 12
number of dots 3 10
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(d) What is the perimeter of pattern 10?
Answer: ........................................ cm
1000 kg ⴝ 1 tonne
(a) After how many days will iceberg A weigh 3850 kg?
(b) After how many days will the two icebergs have the same mass?
4
4 2 3 1
Answer: ..............................................
(b) In the tower of bricks below, the number on a brick is the product of the two
bricks supporting it.
4 2 3 1
Answer: ..............................................
(c) In the tower of bricks below, the number on a brick is the product of the two bricks
supporting it.
The number on the top brick is 72 and the numbers on the bricks are all different
whole numbers.
Answer: ..............................................
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43. A number machine works to the rule
For example:
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(c) Which two numbers between 300 and 400 will also give output 153?
(a) However many times spinner A is spun and the scores are
added, you always get an even total.
(d) If each spinner is spun 100 times and the 100 scores added,
which spinner is likely to score the highest total, and why?
because ..................................................................................................................
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45. A bird has 2 legs, a cat has 4 legs, an insect has 6 legs and a spider has 8 legs.
Claire looks at some animals and counts all their legs.
She counts 38 legs.
There are twice as many birds as spiders and twice as many cats as insects.
5 ⴙ 7 ⴙ 11 ⫽ 23
7 ⴙ 11 ⴙ 13 ⫽ 31
11 ⴙ 13 ⴙ 17 ⫽ 41
Tia is delighted to see that the sum of three consecutive prime numbers seems to give
another prime number.
(i) 17 ⴙ 19 ⴙ 23 ⫽ .............
(b) Which two groups of three consecutive prime numbers, between 10 and 50, have
a sum which is not prime?
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