SIMOC, Primary 3

SIMOC PRIMARY 3 MOCK TEST

Section A

1. The diagram shows some cubes of the same size stacked at a corner of a room. How
many cubes are there altogether? (Note: The floor is horizontal and the two walls are
vertical. There are no gaps or holes behind the visible cubes.)

(a) 7
(b) 8
(c) 9
(d) 10
(e) None of the above

2. Some people are standing equally spaced around a circle, and they were numbered
starting from the number 1 in a clockwise direction. If the person numbered 2 is directly
opposite the person numbered 6, how many people are there?

(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 10
(d) 12
(e) 14

3. A drawer contains 40 coloured socks: 10 black, 14 blue and 16 white. Daniel takes
some socks from the drawer without looking at the colours of the socks. What is the
least number of socks he must take so that he has at least 2 socks of the same colour?

(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5
(e) None of the above

4. A particular month has 5 Thursdays. The first and the last day of the month are not
Thursdays. What day is the first day of the month?

(a) Tuesday
(b) Wednesday
(c) Thursday
(d) Friday
(e) Saturday

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5. Find the next term of the following sequence: 1, 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 24, …

(a) 37
(b) 40
(c) 44
(d) 47
(e) None of the above

6. The following bar graph shows the favourite colour of a class of 40 students (each
student chooses exactly one colour). The tic marks on the vertical axis are equally
spaced. How many students’ favourite colour is blue?

No. of
Favourite Colour
students

0 yellow green blue red Colour

(a) 4
(b) 8
(c) 12
(d) 16
(e) 20

7. A big cube is made up of 27 small cubes. All the faces of the big cube are then painted.
How many of the small cubes have exactly one painted face?

(a) 4
(b) 6
(c) 24
(d) 30
(e) None of the above

8. In a chess tournament, each player has to play one game with every other player. Five
players, Albert, Ben, Charles, Dennis and Ethan, took part in the tournament. So far,
Albert has played 4 games, Ben has played 3 games, Charles has played 2 games and
Dennis has played 1 game. How many games has Ethan played?

(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 3
(e) 4

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9. Which one of the following figures is the odd one out?

Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig. 5

(a) Fig. 1
(b) Fig. 2
(c) Fig. 3
(d) Fig. 4
(e) Fig. 5

10. The diagram shows a diagonal passing through 6 squares of a 4-by-3 rectangle. Find
the number of squares passed through by a diagonal for a 8-by-6 rectangle.

(a) 8
(b) 10
(c) 12
(d) 14
(e) 16

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Section B

11. If a, b and c are non-zero whole numbers such that a + b + c = a  b  c, find a possible
value for a, for b, and for c.

12. The diagram shows a big rectangle that is made up of 5 small identical rectangles. If
the perimeter of the big rectangle is 48 cm, find the area of the big rectangle.

13. Four people are sitting around a table. Alice is sitting beside Ben. Charles is sitting on
the left of Dennis. Ben is not sitting opposite Dennis. Who is sitting on the left of
Charles?

14. Find the smallest whole number that is divisible by 5, and leaves a remainder of 1 when
divided by 2 or by 3.

15. The Southeast Asian (SEA) Games is held once every two years, except in 1963 (i.e. it
was held in 1961 and 1965, but not in 1963). Singapore hosted the 28th SEA Games in
2015. When was the first SEA Games held (although it was known as South East Asian
Peninsula Games at that time)?

16. The diagram shows a triangle ACE. The lines AD and BE intersect at the point F. How
many triangles are there in the diagram altogether?
E

D
F

A B C

17. In the following, all the different letters stand for different digits. Find the three-digit
sum MOO.

A M
+ A
M O O

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18. Consider the following pattern:

01
10
61
82
368  3
1008  4

What is 2015  ?

19. The cost price of a pair of shoes was $30. Mr Lee sold the pair of shoes to a customer
for $40. The latter gave Mr Lee a $50 note, but Mr Lee did not have enough change.
So Mr Lee went to Mr Tan in the shop next door and exchanged the $50 note into
smaller notes. Then Mr Lee gave the customer a $10 change.
After the customer had left, Mr Tan discovered that the $50 note was a counterfeit. So
Mr Lee compensated Mr Tan $50. How much money did Mr Lee lose as compared to
if the $50 note was real?

20. There are five stacks of coins. One of the stacks contains 5 identical counterfeit coins.
Each of the remaining four stacks contains 5 genuine coins. All the genuine coins are
identical. The mass of a genuine coin is 5 g while the mass of a counterfeit coin is 4 g.
Amy does not know which stack contains counterfeit coins. She takes 1 coin from the
first stack, 2 coins from the second stack, 3 coins from the third stack, 4 coins from the
fourth stack, and 5 coins from the fifth stack. Then she puts all the coins on a weighing
machine and finds that the mass of all the coins is 71 g.
So which stack contains the counterfeit coins?