UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

PRACTICE EXAMINATION FOR INTERNAL STUDENTS

MODULE CODE : GRPM0030

ASSESSMENT : GRPM0030A7PB
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MODULE NAME : Practice Exam

LEVEL: : ALL

DATE : Spring 2021

TIME :

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Practice exam: exam readiness

The purpose of this practice exams is to give you a chance to familiarise yourself with the
AssessmentUCL platform ahead of the exam period and to practise all the steps that will be
required of you on your exam day. It is essential that you engage in this practice environment
to ensure you are fully prepared for your exams. It is advisable to use the device in the practice
exam that you intend to use on the day of your exams to avoid any complications on the day.

The practice exam will allow you to remove submissions and resubmit multiple times to enable
you to practice more than once. For your live exam you will only be able to SUBMIT your final
document once only and will not be able to remove your submission.

Please note that your submission will be monitored by the Examinations Office but will not be
shared with or submitted to your department.

Practice exam: guidance and model answers

Before completing the practice exam, please download and read the ‘How to submit an online
exam on AssessmentUCL’ in the Additional material section. This can be found to the right of
the assignment.

You will also be able to see answers to the practice exam and the format these can be
provided, available in the General material section.

Please Answer ALL questions from Part A, ONE question from Part B, and ALL questions
from Part C.

Questions in Part A carry ten percent of the total mark each, questions in Part B and Part
C each carry thirty percent of the total mark.

In cases where a student answers more questions than requested by the examination
rubric, the policy of the Grammar, Punctuation and Maths Department is that the
student's first set of answers up to the required number will be the ones that count (not
the best answers). All remaining answers will be ignored.

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PART A
Answer ALL questions from this section.

1. Which is the correct use of a semicolon?

a. I laughed; loudly.
b. Canada is beautiful; so many impressive boats
c. I swear I saw a rabbit; bear; or mouse downstairs.
d. Earth is old; it formed 4.5 billion years ago.

2. Which use of a colon is incorrect?

a. She had doctorates in two areas: philosophy and physics.
b. I knew exactly what I wanted: pizza.
c. I have to get surgery on my arm: I fell out of a tree.
d. She said: stop running!

3. Which is the correct use of an en dash?

a. Don’t go–I’ll make dinner.
b. The London–Edinburgh flight left at 6:00.
c. I’ve told you a million–times, no.
d. I promised–well, sort of–that we’d go.

4. Which is the correct use of an em dash?

a. She said, —sometimes I wish I had a cat.
b. I went to the movies—despite having homework—and saw Jaws.
c. The dinner is from 6:00—9:00.
d. No—way, did she really say that?

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PART B
Answer ONE question from this section.

This section will give you the opportunity to practice handwriting your answers and
inserting them into your word document. You may use Office Lens on your phone to
scan/photograph handwritten answers.

For guidance on using Office Lens please see the Office Lens Student Guide.

5. Draw the boxes below with the words they contain on your answer sheet. Then draw
lines to match words to others in their word family.

solve familiar horrified

family horrific soluble

horror solution familiarise

6. Draw a graph of the following equation. Ensure you label the graph and axes.

𝑦 = 𝑥2

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PART C
Answer ALL questions from this section.

7. Complete the sentences below using either the word “past” or “passed”. You can
choose to type out your answer or submit a picture of a handwritten solution.

Time really ___ quickly today.

In the ___ I had more money.

I ___ all of my exams.

I ___ up the opportunity to see Paris

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