Diagnostic Assessment

Year 7

Mathematics
Paper 2: reasoning
 and problem solving
(Non-calculator)

First name

Middle name

Last name

Date of birth Day Month Year

Teacher

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 Instructions

You may not use a calculator to answer any questions in this test.

Questions and answers

You have 40 minutes to complete this test.
Follow the instructions for each question.
Work as quickly and as carefully as you can.
If you need to do working out, you can use the space around the question.
Some questions have a method box like this:

Show
your
method

For these questions you may get a mark for showing your method.
If you cannot do one of the questions, go on to the next one.
You can come back to it later, if you have time.
If you finish before the end, go back and check your work.

Marks
The number under each line at the side of the page tells you the
maximum number of marks for each question.

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1 Draw an arrow to show the position of 40 on the number line.

0 100
1 mark

Draw an arrow to show the position of 95 on the number line.

0 100
1 mark

Here is a different number line.

Work out the value of A.

0 200

A=
1 mark

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2 Write down the value of the 6 in each number.

623

1 mark

1,068

1 mark

6,075,922

1 mark

19.65

1 mark

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3 Write three million, four hundred and sixty-eight thousand in numerals.

1 mark

Write 205,609 in words.

1 mark

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4 A is halfway between 0.1 and 0.4

0.1 0.4

What is the value of A?

1 mark

What is the value of B?

-60 0

1 mark

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 5 Jasmine records the colour of cars that pass her school.

She draws a bar chart to represent her results.

16

14

12

10
Number
of cars 8

0
Black Blue Red Silver Yellow
Colour

5 yellow cars pass the school.

Show this information on the bar chart.

1 mark

How many cars are black or red?

1 mark

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6 Circle all the factors of 12 in the list.

1 6 10 12 24 100

1 mark

7 Olivia is counting in 7s from 0 to 70

Circle the numbers she will say.

17 1 7 28 57 63

1 mark

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8 Work out

72

1 mark

23

1 mark

36

1 mark

9 Add brackets to make the number sentence true.

8 + 4 × 3 – 2 + 1 = 13

1 mark

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10 In a fruit bowl, there are 2 apples for every 5 bananas.

There are 8 apples in the fruit bowl.

How many pieces of fruit are there in the fruit bowl in total?

Show
your
method

2 marks

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11 Draw lines to match each shape to its mathematical name.

Trapezium

Parallelogram

Kite

Rhombus

2 marks

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12 Here are two shapes.

A B

Tick the correct box for each statement.

True False
Shapes A and B are both pentagons.

Shape B is regular.

All the angles in shapes A and B are obtuse.

2 marks

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13 The diagram shows a triangular prism.

Write down the number of

faces

1 mark

edges

1 mark

vertices.

1 mark

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14 The shaded shape is drawn on a grid of centimetre squares.

Find the area of the shape.

cm2
1 mark

Find the perimeter of the shape.

cm
1 mark

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15 Use a protractor to measure the angle at B.

A
°
1 mark

16

? 137°

Katie thinks the missing angle is 223˚

Explain Katie’s mistake.

1 mark

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17 A soft toy costs £4.50

A suitcase costs ten times as much.

How much do the soft toy and suitcase cost in total?

Show
your
method

2 marks

18 Kate’s book has 280 pages.

She reads a quarter of the book on Monday.

She reads 50% of the remaining pages on Tuesday.

Calculate how many pages of the book Kate reads on Tuesday.

Show
your
method

pages

2 marks

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19 Here are the prices of three items in a shop.

Video game £48.99 DVD £14.99 Headphones £27.50

Toby buys a video game and a DVD.

He pays with two £20 notes, two £10 notes and one £5 note.

How much change does Toby receive?

Show
your
method

2 marks

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20 Eva buys 4 litres of juice.

JUICE

4 Litres

She drinks 750 ml of the juice herself and shares the rest
between her five friends.

How much juice does each friend get?

Show
your
method

ml

2 marks

END OF TEST

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