SAMPLE QUESTIONS FOR MATH – GENERAL EDUCATION

1. 4 out of 5 households have cellphones. If there are 10,000 households, how many
households do not have cellphones?
A. 8, 000 C. 2,000
B. 800 D. 200

2. A recipe calls for 2 eggs for every 7 cups of flour. If a head chef uses 28 cups of
flour, how many eggs he must have?
A. 12 C. 14
B. 8 D. 10

3. A Toyota car travelling at a rate of 70 km per hour leaves house 2 hours after a Kia
car has left and overtakes it. In 5 hours at what rate was the Kia car travelling?
A. 30 km /h C. 50 km /h
B. 20 km /h D. 40 km /h

4. What is the simple interest on P10, 000.00 for 3 years at 8%?

A. P6, 400.oo C. P2, 400.00
B. 5, 400.00 D. 3, 800.00

5. The approximate shape of a brick is _____________.

A. sphere C. cylindrical
B. rectangular solid D. hemisphere

6. What measure of central tendency can best describe the size of t-shirts commonly
used by teenagers?
A. range C. median
B. mean D. mode

7. The slope of a line described by the equation 3x = (y+4) / 2 is _____________.

A. 3 C. 8
B. 4 D. 6

8. The sum of the interior angles of an obtuse triangle is ___________ the sum of the
interior angles of an acute triangle.
A. greater than C. equal
B. supplementary D. less than

9. Find two consecutive even integers the sum of which is 34?

A. 20 and 21 C. 20 and 22
B. 17 and 19 D. 16 and 18

10. The sum of the sides of a polygon is the ____________ of the polygon.
A. area C. legs
B. perimeter D. volume
1. Had I studied very well, I _____________ rewarded with vacation in the U.S.
A.Was C. Will be
B.Would have been D. Would be

2. Choose the correct meaning of the underlines word in the sentence “Visions of tragic intensity;
next it echoes bubbling, IRREPRESSIBLE laughter.”
A. Difficult C. doubly uttered
B. most expressed D. unstoppable

3. To show pathological awareness skill in ________ , students say the sounds in a word then “say
them fast” while the teacher combines blocks or letters .
A. Manipulating C. segmenting
B. Rhyming D. blending

4. For methods to develop fluency, ___ reading is done by giving the student a passage and a model
of fluent reading that develops fluency with prosody.
A. Repeated C. echo
B. Chunk D. choral

5. Choose the word similar in meaning to the underlines: A basketball player has DEXTERITY.
A. Ability C. Right-handed
B. Speed D. Manual skill

6. The underlined word in the sentence “He finally joined VACC, an ORGANIZATION against
corruption and crime” is ______ in the sentence.
A. Indirect object C. appositive
B. Objective complement D. subjective complement

7. Fill in correct phrase “Why _____ at us?”

A. Are those ladies laughing C. are laughing those ladies
B. Those ladies are laughing D. those are ladies laughing

8. These two words lack correlation:

A. Genial:: cheerful C. Clothes:: garments
B. Cite:: position D. Coarse:: harsh

9. To show phonological awareness skill in ____ students delete, add substitute sounds and
syllables.
A. Counting C. segmenting
B. Blending D. manipulating

10. The series of strategies used to teach students the active process of constructing meaning from
the text through assessing previous knowledge, understanding, vocabulary and concepts making
inferences and linking key ideas is known as ____ strategies.
A. Intuition C. Perception
B. Assimilation D. Comprehension