Placement Test Primary 1

Part I

1. Compute
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + … + 47 + 48 + 49 + 50.

2. Find the missing numbers in each number pattern.

A. 6, 9, 13, 18, 24, (.....), (.....)

B. 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, (.....), (.....)

3. A clock chimes once at 1 o'clock, twice at 2 o'clock, thrice at 3

o'clock, .....
It also chimes once every half an hour. How many times does
the clock chime from 1 to 4 o'clock?

4. Which set of numbers will give the greatest answer?

(A) P (C) R
(B) Q (D) S

5. John saves 5 fifty – cent coins in the first week.

He saves 6 fifty – cent coins in the second week.
In the third week, he saves 7 fifty – cent coins and so on.
 How many fifty – cent coins can John save altogether by the
end of 10 weeks?

6. A person watched TV from 11:45 am to 1 pm.

For how long did he watch TV?
A. 1 hours 30 minutes
B. 1 hours 15 minutes
C. 1 hours 45 minutes
D. 1 hours 25 minutes

7. The entrance to the Chinese Garden are hung with 12 red

lanterns. There is a yellow lantern between every two red
lantern. How many yellow lanterns are there altogether?

8. 7 groups of _________ makes 49.

(A) 9 (C) 4
(B) 7 (D) 3

9. Nelson is 8 years old. His father is 36 years old. How old will
Nelson and his father be when the sum of their age is 62?

10. Melissa is 6 years old. Mark is 9 years old. How old will
Mark be when Melissa is 15 years old?
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11. Find the missing numbers.

12. I am thinking of a number. When I double the number and

add 9 to the result, the answer is 29. What is the number I am
thinking of ?
(A) 38 (B) 29 (C) 18 (D) 10

13. There are 20 teams in the North Zonal Volleyball League. Each
team must play exactly one match with another team. How
many matches are to be played altogether in the league?

14. What is the smallest possible number of children in a family

if each child has at least one brother and one sister?

15. The sum of Benny and his father's age is 39. When will the
sum of their age be 49?

16. Mr. Narayan is lining up his students in this order: girl, girl,
boy, boy, girl, girl, boy, boy, girl, girl, boy , ?, ?
 If he continues the same pattern, what are the next two
students in line?
(A) Boy, boy (B) Boy, girl (C) Girl, boy (D) Girl, girl

17. Two farmers have 140 chickens altogether. The number of

chickens Farmer A has is 6 times that of Farmer B. How many
chickens does each farmer have?

18. Charlotte read 10 pages of a storybook on the first day. She

read 15 pages of the same storybook on the second day, 20
pages on the third day and so on.
How many pages had the storybook if Charlotte finished
reading it on the eighth day?

19. Distribute 30 sweets to five student in such a way that each of

them gets a different even number of sweets.

20. Anil is an animal doctor who works at the zoo. Yesterday he

weighed an elephant. Which unit of measure could be used
to weigh an elephant?
(A) Centimetres (B) Kilograms (C) Litres (D) Metres
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