CEM Style Test 1 – Paper B

QU. Select the word which goes equally well with both pairs of words inside the brackets.

(container, compartment)     (slap, fight)

QU. Select the word which goes equally well with both pairs of words inside the brackets.
(sofa, stool)     (leader, president)

QU. Select the word which goes equally well with both pairs of words inside the brackets.
(ounce, stone)     (pummel, batter)

QU. Select the word which goes equally well with both pairs of words inside the brackets.
(variety, category)     (caring, helpful)

QU. Select the word which goes equally well with both pairs of words inside the brackets.
(vacate, leave)     (plain, unambiguous)

QU. Select the word which goes equally well with both pairs of words inside the brackets.

(patio, terrace)     (adorn, decorate)

QU. Select the word which goes equally well with both pairs of words inside the brackets.

(crave, hunger)     (extended, prolonged)

QU.Select the word which goes equally well with both pairs of words inside the brackets.
(gentle, compassionate)     (propose, suggest)

QU. Select the word which goes equally well with both pairs of words inside the brackets.
(nasty, unpleasant)     (intend, aim)

QU. Select the word which goes equally well with both pairs of words inside the brackets.
(fixture, tournament)     (copy, twin)

QU. Select the word which goes equally well with both pairs of words inside the brackets.
(association, link)     (family, kinsman)

QU. Select the word which goes equally well with both pairs of words inside the brackets.
(elegance, style)     (fondness, desire)

A recipe for carrot and leek soup for 4 people is as follows:

800 ml vegetable stock
300 grams leeks
240 grams carrots
200 grams tinned tomatoes

Mina invites her family for lunch. She needs to make soup for 12 people.

How much vegetable stock should she use?

Answer in litres.

A recipe for carrot and leek soup for 4 people is as follows:

800 ml vegetable stock
300 grams leeks
240 grams carrots
200 grams tinned tomatoes

Mina invites her family for lunch. She needs to make soup for 12 people.

Mina buys a 1 kilogram bag of carrots. How much will the left-over carrots weigh?

Answer in grams.

A recipe for carrot and leek soup for 4 people is as follows:

800 ml vegetable stock
300 grams leeks
240 grams carrots
200 grams tinned tomatoes

Mina invites her family for lunch. She needs to make soup for 12 people.

Tomatoes are sold in 500 gram cans. How many cans does Mina need to buy to feed 12 people?

The label on a tin of baked beans has been removed. Josh needs to know the quantity of beans for his recipe. He estimates correctly.

Which of the following did Josh choose?

An electricity meter shows the following units:

36784

What is the number rounded to the nearest thousand?

In a recent survey 66% of children asked stated that they found their teacher to be helpful.

Choose the answer that most closely shows that percentage as a fraction.

Kiya has a bag containing numbered balls. She takes one ball out of the bag and looks at the number. She divides the number by 4, then adds 7. Her answer is 13.

What number did Kiya draw out of the bag?

326 x 0.29 = 94.54

Find 32.6 x 0.29

The graph shows the number of people in the swimming pool at 8 am each day for two weeks.

What was the difference between the highest number of swimmers and the lowest number of swimmers?

The graph shows the number of people in the swimming pool at 8 am each day for two weeks.

What was the mean number of swimmers over the two weeks?

The graph shows the number of people in the swimming pool at 8 am each day for two weeks.

Nine tenths of the people in the pool were adults. How many children were in the pool?

This shape has been drawn on a piece of paper marked in 1 cm2 squares. The piece of paper has 100 squares.

Name the shape drawn on the piece of paper.

This shape has been drawn on a piece of paper marked in 1 cm2 squares. The piece of paper has 100 squares.

What fraction of the paper is shaded?

This shape has been drawn on a piece of paper marked in 1 cm2 squares. The piece of paper has 100 squares.

The shape is reduced in size by 25%.
How many squares will the new shape be made up of?

Barry runs a distance of 4 miles along the tow path that runs beside the canal. It takes him 7 minutes to run 1 mile.

Assuming he can run all four miles in the same time, what time would Barry complete his run if he started at 1.45 pm?

What type of triangle is the shape marked A?

What is the size of angle x?

What is the size of angle y?

Bill and Ann have been making pies for their market stall. The bar chart shows the number of pies Bill and Ann made this week.

Ann made more pies than Bill this week. How many more pies did she make than Bill?

Type the number only.

Bill and Ann have been making pies for their market stall. The bar chart shows the number of pies Bill and Ann made this week.

Bill and Ann made more custard pies than any other pie this week. What percentage of pies made were custard?

Type the number only. You do not need to type the % sign.

Bill and Ann have been making pies for their market stall. The bar chart shows the number of pies Bill and Ann made this week.

If the pies were listed in order of the total number of pies made during the week from highest to lowest, which variety of pie would come fourth?

Bill and Ann have been making pies for their market stall. The bar chart shows the number of pies Bill and Ann made this week.

At the beginning of the week Bill and Ann had a 5 kg bag of apples. By the end of the week they had 200 g of apple left.

How many grams of apples does each pie contain?

Type the number only.

A football team has made it to the final of the County Cup. Many of the local community want to attend the final so the club organise travel to and from the venue.

The club receives 106 requests for minibus travel.

How many minibuses do the club need to provide?

Type the number only.

A football team has made it to the final of the County Cup. Many of the local community want to attend the final so the club organise travel to and from the venue.

The club receives 250 requests for coach tickets. The club cannot make refunds for partially filled buses so the cost of the coach hire will be split equally among all passengers who travel on the coach.

How much will each passenger pay?

Type the number only. Answer using £0.00 or numbers and decimal point only 0.00

A football team has made it to the final of the County Cup. Many of the local community want to attend the final so the club organise travel to and from the venue.

The club receives 250 requests for coach tickets.

How many empty seats will there be on the coaches?

Type the number only.

A football team has made it to the final of the County Cup. Many of the local community want to attend the final so the club organise travel to and from the venue.

Family A and Family B both have 6 members. They both travel to the match.

Family A travel by car, have pitch-side seats and purchase 4 sandwiches, 6 pies and 12 teas at the ground.

Family B travel by minibus (paying half the hire price), have standing tickets and purchase 4 pies, 8 sandwiches and 6 teas at the ground.

The football team win the final and are promoted to the Premier League. As a way of saying thank you to the community for their support, they offer the following deals for one week, with the proceeds going to help homeless people in the community:

On Monday they sell:

30 scarves and hats
46 footballs
9 stadium tours
4 VIP experiences

On Tuesday they sell:
2/3 of the amount of scarves and hats they sold on Monday.
½ the number of footbalss
1/3 the number of stadium tours
¼ of the VIP experiences

How much money do they take over the two days?

The football team win the final and are promoted to the Premier League. As a way of saying thank you to the community for their support, they offer the following deals for one week, with the proceeds going to help homeless people in the community:

What percentage of Mondays takings was Tuesdays takings, rounded to the nearest whole number?

The football team win the final and are promoted to the Premier League. As a way of saying thank you to the community for their support, they offer the following deals for one week, with the proceeds going to help homeless people in the community:

On Monday they sell:

30 scarves and hats
46 footballs
9 stadium tours
4 VIP experiences

Which of the above items made up 1/5 of the money taken on Monday?

Five dairy farmers count how many cows they have.

Farmer A has 40 cows
Farmer B has 42 cows
Farmer C has 36 cows
Farmer D has 64 cows

The mean number of cattle the five farmers have is 42.

How many cows does Farmer E have?

Type the number.

A school has two buildings: Block A and Block B.
Block A has an outside play area (shaded green).

A school has two buildings: Block A and Block B.
Block A has an outside play area (shaded green).

Calculate the length of the wall that goes around the outside perimeter of the buildings?

Stanley think of 2 square numbers less than 49 which have a product of 400.

What are the numbers Stanley is thinking of?

Which of the following shows the prime factors of 36?

An ambulance driver collects Mrs Mistry from her home. Mrs Mistry lives 19 km from the hospital. After 7,400 metres, the ambulance stops to pick up Mr Joshua.

How far does Mr Joshua live from the hospital?

Kia has a phone with no monthly charge. However, a daytime call will cost her 60p and each evening call will cost 30p. She is billed every 30 days.

x = number of daytime calls every 30 days
y = number of evening call every 30 days

Which would be the correct formula to calculate Kia’s phone bill (B)?

Kia has a phone with no monthly charge. However, a daytime call will cost her 60p and each evening call will cost 30p. She is billed every 30 days.

If Kia makes 40 daytime calls and 80 evening calls in 30 days, how much will she be charged?

Six year 5 pupils recorded their discus throws. They recorded their measurements on the graph. The bar for each child spans their shortest and longest throw.

Who had the largest difference between their shortest and longest throws?

Six year 5 pupils recorded their discus throws. They recorded their measurements on the graph. The bar for each child spans their shortest and longest throw.

What is the difference in metres between the longest and shortest throws?

Six year 5 pupils recorded their discus throws. They recorded their measurements on the graph. The bar for each child spans their shortest and longest throw.

What is the longest distance recorded?

Jim’s job, every morning, is to load sacks of laundry into a trolley ready for transportation. Each sack of laundry weighs 6 kg, and each trolley, when empty, weighs 13 kg.

Jim loads the sacks into an empty trolley at a rate of 1 sack every minute.

After 8 minutes, what will the combined weight of the sacks and trolley be?

A treasure map shows the journey an explorer took when hiding his treasure. He started at point A.

The pirate travels to point B located at (8,2). From there, he goes north 4 squares and east 3 squares to point C.

Where is point C?

How many squares in each direction does the pirate travel to get from point C to point D.

The treasure is buried seven squares east and three squares south of D.

Where is this?

A recent survey was conducted to find out which season people in Britain like best. The results are shown in the pie chart.

What is the angle of the autumn section?

Only type the number. DO NOT type the degree symbol °.

A recent survey was conducted to find out which season people in Britain like best. The results are shown in the pie chart.

What percentage of people liked spring best?

A recent survey was conducted to find out which season people in Britain like best. The results are shown in the pie chart.

60 people said their favourite season was winter.

How many chose summer?

Which shape or pattern on the right belongs to the one on the left?

Which shape or pattern on the right belongs to the one on the left?

Which shape or pattern on the right belongs to the one on the left?

Which shape or pattern on the right belongs to the one on the left?

Which shape or pattern on the right belongs to the one on the left?

Which shape or pattern on the right belongs to the one on the left?

Which shape or pattern on the right comes next in the series?

Which shape or pattern on the right comes next in the series?

Which shape or pattern on the right comes next in the series?

Which shape or pattern on the right comes next in the series?

Which shape or pattern on the right comes next in the series?

Which shape or pattern on the right comes next in the series?

Select the shape, A – E, that goes with the third shape on the left to make a pair like the upper two on the left?

Select the shape, A – E, that goes with the third shape on the left to make a pair like the upper two on the left?

Select the shape, A – E, that goes with the third shape on the left to make a pair like the upper two on the left?

Select the shape, A – E, that goes with the third shape on the left to make a pair like the upper two on the left?

Select the shape, A – E, that goes with the third shape on the left to make a pair like the upper two on the left?

Select the shape, A – E, that goes with the third shape on the left to make a pair like the upper two on the left?

Arthur earns £25,743 per year.

How much does he earn each month?

Jim’s job, every morning, is to load sacks of laundry into a trolley ready for transportation. Each sack of laundry weighs 6 kg, and each trolley, when empty, weighs 13 kg.

Jim loads the sacks into an empty trolley at a rate of 1 sack every minute.

Which of the following describes the combined weight of the sacks and the trolley?

Jim’s job, every morning, is to load sacks of laundry into a trolley ready for transportation. Each sack of laundry weighs 6 kg, and each trolley, when empty, weighs 13 kg.

Jim loads the sacks into an empty trolley at a rate of 1 sack every minute.

Once the combined weight of the trolley and the sacks exceeds 50 kg, the trolley is wheeled away.

How many minutes does it take before this happens?