CLASS 8

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ABOUT THIS PRACTICE TEST

This Practice Test has 17 questions. It has been designed to give you an idea of
the main IBT assessment.

ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS

Each question has four options. Choose the BEST answer from the four options
A, B, C or D.
You will find the key to the answers on the last page of this booklet.

EQUIPMENT ALLOWED IN THIS PRACTICE TEST

You may use a pencil for this Practice Test.

ESTIMATED TIME FOR THIS PRACTICE TEST

You should be able to complete this Practice Test in approximately 30 minutes.

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 1 What fraction of this shape is shaded? 5 The number of magazines that
Yogesh reads each week is
represented by ‘n’ .

Which of these represents the total

number of magazines that Yogesh
reads in 4 weeks?

A 1 B 1
3 4 A 4+n
1 1 B 4xn
C D
5 6
C n÷4

D (n + n)x4
2 792 + 207 is closest to the sum of

A 700 + 200
6 Samil made a 3D object from small
B 800 + 200 cubes. These are three views of the
C 800 + 300 object.

D 900 + 200
Front View Top View Side View

3 1.27 km is the same as

A 127 m

B 12.7 m
Which one is Samil’s object?
C 1270 m
A B
D 0.127 m

4 Which number comes next in this

number pattern?

5, 11, 23, 47, 95, …. C D

A 96 B 101

C 143 D 191

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 7 Four girls measured the length of 9 Which angle is closest to 60°?
their paces.
This table shows their measurements.

Name Length of Pace s p

Pinky 85 cm r q
Meena 60 cm
Shenaz 70 cm
Susan 55 cm
A angle p

Who would take the most paces B angle q

when walking the length of a hallway?
C angle r
A Pinky
D angle s
B Meena

C Shenaz

D Susan 10 20% of 400 is

A 20

8 B 40
Javeria left home at 7:10 am.
She walked for 15 minutes to the
station and waited 10 minutes for a C 80
train. She then travelled by train for
45 minutes. D 120

At what time did Javeria get off the

train?

A 8:25 am

B 8:20 am

C 8:15 am

D 8:10 am

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 11 The average of 10 lengths is 8.3 cm. 13 There are 28 students in Year 6.
Group S includes everyone who
What is the total of the 10 lengths? brings a sandwich to school.
Group A includes everyone who
brings an apple to school.
A 0.83 cm
This information about Year 6 is
B 9.15 cm shown in the diagram.

C 83 cm
Year 6
D 18.3 cm 4
A
18
S
12 Sabeena has a box containing 6
bottles of juice.
The three flavours are orange,
mango and apple.
The ratio of these flavours is 3 : 5 : 4
There are 35 bottles of mango juice.
Which one of these statements is
How many bottles are there correct?
altogether?
A One quarter of Year 6 bring an
A 12 apple to school.

B 28 B All students in Year 6 bring a

sandwich to school.
C 49
C Every student in Year 6 who brings
D 84 a sandwich also brings an apple to
school.

D Every student in Year 6 who brings

an apple also brings a sandwich to
school.

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 14 The shaded region in the diagram 16 Last Saturday, Taamir, Ali, Jaafar
is bounded by the line 3x + 2y = 30, and Amal scored a total of 500 runs
the x-axis and the y-axis. at cricket.

y Which of these statements must be

true?

A Each player made over 100 runs.

3x

B Each player made exactly 125 runs.

+
2y
=

C No player made over 250 runs.

30

D At least one player made over

x 100 runs.

The area of this shaded region is 17 In the diagram PQ = PR

A 150 units 2 QPR = 40°

B 30 units 2

C 75 units 2
1 2
D 2 units

15 3
5 of one hour =
What is the size of PRS?
A 3 x 5 minutes
A 110°
B 3 x 12 minutes
B 140°
C 3 x 20 minutes
C 40°
D 3 x 5 x 60 minutes
D 80°

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 Answer Key

1 B

2 B

3 C

4 D

5 B

6 A

7 D

8 B

9 B

10 C

11 C

12 D

13 C

14 C

15 B

16 D

17 A

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