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Ability Practice 1

This document contains a practice test for the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Ability Test, which assesses primary school students in Jamaica. The practice test has 15 multiple choice and word problems covering topics like fractions, ratios, time, money, and measurement. Students must show their work to receive partial credit for word problems. The questions range from easy calculations to more complex multi-step problems.

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Ability Practice 1

This document contains a practice test for the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Ability Test, which assesses primary school students in Jamaica. The practice test has 15 multiple choice and word problems covering topics like fractions, ratios, time, money, and measurement. Students must show their work to receive partial credit for word problems. The questions range from easy calculations to more complex multi-step problems.

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APEX

PREPARATORY
SCHOOL

PRIMARY EXIT PROFILE


(P.E.P)
ABILITY TEST
PRACTICE
1. Twelve football teams are playing in a league. Each team played each of the other
teams exactly once. How many matches were played in the league?
a. 72 c. 11
b. 66 d. 32

2. A class of girls walked to the Tuck shop in rows of four. Tash, Anna, Camille and
Donna noticed that they were the third row from the front and the seventh row
from the back. How many students were in the Tuck shop?
a. 28 c. 36
b. 32 d. 40

3. Which is heaviest?
a. A tonne of rock c. a tonne of feather
b. A tonne of salt d. none of them

Read the passage carefully then answer items 4 and 6

Mr. Brown went to the supermarket on the way home from work. It took him
several minutes to find an empty parking space once inside, he walked through the
aisles trying to decide what to have for dinner. He knew his wife would like to
cook mutton, but his children would rather eat chicken. He decided to get fish
instead, which is his favourite.

4. How many persons could be in Mr. Brown’s family?


a. 1 c. 3
b. 2 d. 4

5. How did Mr. Brown get to the supermarket?


a. He walked c. He took a Taxi
b. He drove his car d. He run

6. What did the family had for dinner?


a. Chicken c. cook mutton
b. Fish d. all of the above

7. If 12 poles are 4m apart, what is the distance in metres between the first and the
twelfth pole?
a. 48m c. 40m
b. 44m d. 16m

8. When 8 is multiplied by a certain number the result is the same as 6 x 12. What is
the number?
a. 6 c. 12
b. 9 d. 72

9. George is reading a book. On Monday he reads 1/3 of the book. On Tuesday he


reads three-tenth of the remaining pages. He has 35 pages left to read.
How many pages are in the book?
a. 65 c. 15
b. 75 d. 45
10. A boy has y dollars. His father gave him 4 times the amount of money he has.
Now he has $80. How much money did the boy have before?
Show your working here

11. Four men took 6 days to dig a hole. How long would 12 men take to dig the same
hole working at the same pace?
Show your working here

12. Four students shared 50 marbles so that one gets 10, one gets 12 and another gets
20, what percentage of the set of marbles did the 4th child gets?
Show your working here.

13. If a clock loses 20 seconds every hour, how many seconds will it lose in one day?
Show your working here.

14. A certain movie is 105 minutes long. It started at 6:15pm. During the movie, there
were two commercial breaks, one lasted 9 minutes and one lasted 6 minutes. At
what time did the movie finish?
Show your working here.

15. If 8 poles are 3m apart, what is the distance in metres between the first and the
eight pole?
Show your working here

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