THE ARITHMETIC PAPER
Examination for the Admission of Pupils to Secondary Schools, March 3, 1950
1 a) Add 87 to 375
b) Take £3 17s 9d from £7 13s 5d
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c) Subtract twice 27 from 80
d) Divide 9,800 by 7
e) Reduce 5gal 3qt 1pt to pints
f) A two-ounce bar of chocolate costs 5½d. How much is that per pound?
g) A wall is 2 yards high and 8 yards long. Find the cost of painting one side of it at 2s 6d per square foot.
h) A steamer from Southampton to Guernsey takes 7½ hours on the crossing. If it leaves Southampton at 10.50pm one evening, when does it arrive in Guernsey?
2 Find the cost of 36 things at 3s 2½d each
3 Divide 24,192 by 63
4 NOT INCLUDED IN THE TEST
5 A bill for ¾lb of coffee and ½lb of margarine comes to 2s 11d. The coffee costs 2s 8d per pound. What is the cost of a pound of margarine?
6 Mr Thompson has six bookshelves each 3ft 7in long and has 152 books standing on them. If books on average are 1in thick, for how many more books will there be room on the shelves?
7 An oblong is 4ft 3in long and 2ft 7in wide. Find its area, giving your answer in square feet and square inches.
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8 On Tuesday morning Mildred left home at 8.47am and was 9 minutes late for school, which started at 9.15am. In the afternoon she left school at 4.25pm, walking at the same speed. When did she arrive home?
You need not show much working for these last sums as you can probably do a good deal of it in your head.
9 a) Ducks’ eggs cost 4½d and hens’ eggs cost 3½d. Helen buys twice as many ducks’ eggs as hens’ eggs, and spends altogether 4s 2d. How many eggs did she buy?
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b) Three numbers add up to 95. The first is 4 more than the second and the third is 3 more than the first. What are the numbers?
c) There are three villages A, B and C. B is 15 miles from A and 10 miles from C. Jack, who lives at A, and Jill, who lives at C, arrange one day to meet at B. Jack leaves A at 10.20am and cycles to B, arriving at 11.35am. Jill cycles at the same speed as Jack; what is the latest time she can leave C if she is not to keep him waiting?
d) When a bag of flour and a bag of oatmeal are put into the same pan of a pair of scales it requires 6lb 2oz in the other pan to balance them. When the bags are put in different pans 12oz has to be put with the oatmeal to balance the flour. Find the weight of the bag of flour.
THE ENGLISH PAPER
1 a) Here is a sentence which begins with the word “tomorrow”.
“Tomorrow I shall go to Margaret’s home where I shall play games and do whatever I am asked to do.”
Write out this sentence below, but instead of the word tomorrow put the word yesterday and make the small changes in the sentence which will then be needed.
As you write it out, put in any capital letters, commas, etc, which have been left out.
b) Make up any sentence you like which contains the word “there” and also the word “their”.
2 Write down:
a) A word which means the opposite of STOUT.
b) A word which means the same as ASSIST.
c) A word which looks as though it ought to rhyme with LEVER but does not.
d) A word which rhymes with COW but is spelt quite differently.
e) The name of an instrument which tells you the temperature.
f) A word which imitates the sound a horse makes.
g) A word which describes a boy who sometimes does very good work and sometimes does very bad work.
THE GENERAL PAPER
1 Opposite each of these words, write the name of a larger thing of the same kind (for example girl ... woman): kitten; cottage; hill; stream; lane
2 Put ONE word in each gap in these sentences There are ---- pennies in one shilling Mrs Porter’s younger ---- was named Elizabeth Halfway down the ----, the road takes a sharp ---- That question is a ---- and I do not ---- the answer ---- he was not very brave, Michael was not ---- of going to bed in the dark
3 Underline the two words in each of these lines which make the same kind of pair as the two words in brackets at the beginning of the line:
(high, low) command, arrange, order, disorder, no
(scarlet, colour) white, game, hockey, black, artist
(sailor, crew) sheep, garden, flock, lawn, flower
(gardener, spade) rose, carpenter, tree, saw, wood
(foot, length) penny, gallon, money, pint, yard
(house, roof) room, window, top, porch, ceiling.
(smart, smartly) name, clever, namely, cleverly, really
4 Show that you have understood the way in which these sets of figures (or letters) are arranged by putting in the next set of figures (or letters) in each case. (The first has been done for you as an example.)
2,4,6,8: (10) 5,8, 11, 14 ? 6,12, 17, 21 ? 1, 2, 4, 8 ? B, D, F, H ? AC, BD, CE, DF ? HK, IL, JK, KL ?
7 Look at the word CAR. By adding a letter you can make it into SCAR, another real word; or you can make it into CHAR or CART, by adding other letters (without altering the order of the letters C, A, R). In the same way, take the word BAT and make as many real four-letter words out of it as you can.
The answers will be published tomorrow