ISEB Common Pre-Test

Mathematics Paper 4

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ISEB Pre-Test Mathematics Paper 4

Instructions:
● You have 50 minutes to answer 50 questions.
● Try to answer every question, but do not spend too long on those you find difficult.
● Put a line through the correct answer by choosing one of the options A-E.
● Each question is worth one mark.

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answers on the answer sheet: answers on the answer sheet:

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Please take care when marking your answers on your answer sheets.
Make sure you mark your answer on the line that matches the question number and
mark only one answer per line.

Information about the test papers:

● The page number is in the top right corner of each page.
● The content of this paper is similar to that of the mathematics ISEB Common Pre-Test taken in years
6/7 for independent school entry.
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1) Which answer has four numbers that are all multiples of 3 or 8?

A B C D E
6, 9, 20, 13 3, 24, 18, 16 15, 8, 11, 18 5, 12, 8, 21 4, 7, 21, 24

2) 144 ÷ 4 < x2
Which of these is the smallest number x could be?
A B C D E
6 8 5 7 9

3) The graph below shows the temperature of a beaker over time.

What was the temperature of the beaker at 10:30 am?

A B C D E
14oC 14.5oC 15oC 14.2oC 14.8oC

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4) 100g of chocolates contains:

How much sugar is there in a pack of 250g?

A B C D E
100g 120g 125g 140g 150g

5) What is the height of the trapezium if the area is 16cm2?

A B C D E
4cm 5cm 6cm 8cm 9cm

6) A car is on sale for a discount of 25%. Jake buys the car for £15,000. What was the original
price of the car?
A B C D E
£19,000 £18,750 £17,000 £20,000 £22,500

7) Solve for x.
7x + 8 = 107 – 2x
A B C D E
5 8 11 14 15

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8) Estimate the angle in the diagram below.

A B C D E
135o 90o 195o 45o 260o

9) Which has the biggest answer?

A B C D E
7x4 6x5 2x5 15 + 16 ½ of 60

10) What is the mass in grams shown on this scale?

A B C D E
70g 55g 54g 75g 60g

11) Find 35% of 800.

A B C D E
180 240 255 280 300

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12) Andrea’s birthday is 29th August and Alison was born exactly 15 days later. On what date
is Alison’s birthday?
A B C D E
11th September 12th September 13th September 14th September 15th September

13) 7 books cost £32.90. All books cost the same amount. What is the price of 1 book?
A B C D E
£3.46 £7.34 £4.58 £9.02 £4.70

14) Which of the following decimals is equivalent to nine and two thousandths?
A B C D E
9.2 9.002 9.22 9.02 0.092

15) What is 9/7 of 49?

A B C D E
56 63 70 77 81

16) The area of a square is 144cm2. What is the length of one of its sides?
A B C D E
3.5cm 12cm 24cm 36cm 40cm

17) What is the correct answer to the given calculation?

3 - 17 + 4 + -2 = ?

A B C D E
-11 -16 -14 -10 -12

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18) The graph below shows the ages of players in a football club.

How many players are aged 31 or older?

A B C D E
15 16 25 28 30

19) How many square numbers are there between 1 and 100 inclusive?

A B C D E
5 7 8 10 11

20) Blackpool Tower is 158.1 metres tall. The tallest building in the world (the Burj Khalifa
in Dubai) is 5.237 times taller. How high is the Burj Khalifa to the nearest metre?
A B C D E
628m 728m 828m 934m 1063m

21) How many decades are there in a millennium?

A B C D E
10 100 1000 10,000 100,000

22) There are 3 car parks, each with 500 spaces. There are 150 spaces in a fourth car park.
How many spaces are there altogether?
A B C D E
653 650 1650 300 750

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23) Shape Q is an enlargement of shape P.

What is the scale factor of the enlargement?

A B C D E
2 1/3 1/2 6 3

24) Richie has three times as many shirts as jumpers.

Which of these is the ratio of Richie’s shirts to jumpers, in its simplest form?
A B C D E
1:3 6:2 4:1 3:1 5:2

25) A fair 8-sided spinner numbered 1-8 is spun once. What is the probability that it lands on
a 2 or a 3?
A B C D E
0.2 0.25 0.125 0.4 0.375

26) A café records how many different types of drinks it sells over one year.

Which drink did the café sell the most?

A B C D E
Tea Coffee Hot chocolate Orange juice Apple juice

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27) Some school children were asked about their favourite school trip.

What fraction of the children said their favourite trip was either the theme park or the zoo?
A B C D E
1/8 1/4 3/8 3/4 2/5

28) By rounding each number to one significant figure, estimate the answer to the following
calculation:
578 ÷ (38.7 − 11.2)
A B C D E
20 30 15 25 27

29) Helen goes swimming every eight days. Ayo goes swimming every ten days. If they both
go swimming today, how many days will it be before they next go swimming together?
A B C D E
20 40 60 80 100

30) What is the volume of this cuboid?

A B C D E
58cm3 18cm3 36cm3 50cm3 42cm3

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31) Factorise fully 18x+24

A B C D E
3(6x+8) 2(9x+12) 6(3x+4) 6x(3x+4) 42x

32) A train travelled 120 km in 1 ½ hours. What was the average speed of the train?
A B C D E
100km/h 80km/h 60km/h 120km/h 180km/h

33) What is 0.01 as a percentage?

A B C D E
0.01% 100% 10% 1% 11%

34) What is the reading on the scale?

A B C D E
50.4 50.7 50.8 50.75 51.2

35) The factors of 11 sum to 12. Which is the other number whose factors sum to 12?
A B C D E
8 9 5 7 6

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36) Work out the value of x.

A B C D E
76o 130o 80o 65o 60o

37) Anya thinks of a number. She multiplies it by 6 and subtracts 30 from the result. Her
answer equals the number she started with. What was her starting number?
A B C D E
4 5 6 8 10

38) Here is a number machine.

What was the input if the output is 21

A B C D E
7 4 9 11 8

39) What is the perimeter of the shape in its simplest form?

A B C D E
2(3x-1)+2(y-2) 6x+2y-6 6x-2+2y-4 6x+2y-2 4x+2y-4

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40) If 4 dozen pens cost £57.60, what is the cost of one pen?

A B C D E
£9.75 £0.89 £1.10 £1.20 £1.25

41) How many lines of symmetry are there in a parallelogram?

A B C D E
2 1 0 3 4

42) A cube has a volume of 216 cm3. How long is the cube’s edge?

A B C D E
5cm 6cm 8cm 10cm 14cm

43) How many minutes until this clock shows 7:35?

A B C D E
50 40 35 60 45

44) What is the remainder when 100 is divided by 6?

A B C D E
1 2 3 4 5

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45) What is the sum of the populations of Clowne and Eckington to the nearest thousand?

A B C D E
21,000 29,000 28,500 28,000 23,000

46) What is the size of angle a?

A B C D E
81o 84o 89o 94o 105o

47) If a = 4 and b = 2, what is the value of a2 ÷ b?

A B C D E
8 16 4 2 12

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48) How many hundreds in the number 61,814?

A B C D E
6 1 8 4 4

49) The internal angles of a regular hexagon add up to 720o. How many degrees is each one?
A B C D E
60o 90o 120o 150o 210o

50) Which day of the week comes 23 days after Monday?

A B C D E
Monday Wednesday Thursday Saturday Sunday

End of paper.

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