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16+ SAMPLE QUESTIONS


The Comprehension Test is designed to check your understanding of what is

actually written in this passage not what you know from previous experience.

The Word Meaning Test is about finding two words which have the SAME

meaning or a meaning that is as close as possible.

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds upon the earth, as much as any creature living.

I have fallen insensibly into this habit, both because it favours my infirmity and because it affords me greater opportunity of speculating on the characters and occupations of those who fill the streets. The glare and hurry of broad noon are not adapted to idle pursuits like mine; a glimpse of passing faces caught by the light of a street-lamp or a shop window is often better for my purpose than their full revelation in the daylight; and, if I must add the truth, night is kinder in this respect than day, which too often destroys an air-built castle at the moment of its completion, without the least ceremony or remorse.

That constant pacing to and fro, that never-ending restlessness, that incessant tread of feet wearing the rough stones smooth and glossy—is it not a wonder how the dwellers in narrows ways can bear to hear it! Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin's Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged, despite himself (as though it were a task he must perform) to detect the child's step from the man's, the slipshod beggar from the booted exquisite, the lounging from the busy, the dull heel of the sauntering outcast from the quick tread of an expectant pleasure-seeker—think of the hum and noise always being present to his sense, and of the stream of life that will not stop, pouring on, on, on, through all his restless dreams, as if he were condemned to lie, dead but conscious, in a noisy churchyard, and had no hope of rest for centuries to come.....

At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage-stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad-stools and tight-sticking snails. To these succeeded pert cottages, two and two with plots of ground in front, laid out in angular beds with stiff box borders and narrow paths between, where footstep never strayed to make the gravel rough. Then came the public-house, freshly painted in green and white, with tea-gardens and a bowling green, spurning its old neighbour with the horse-trough where the waggons stopped; then, fields; and then, some houses, one by one, of goodly size with lawns, some even with a lodge where dwelt a porter and his wife. Then came a turnpike; then fields again with trees and hay-stacks; then, a hill, and on the top of that, the traveller might stop, and—looking back at old Saint Paul's looming through the smoke, its cross peeping above the cloud (if the day were clear), and glittering in the sun; and casting his eyes upon the Babel out of which it grew until he traced it down to the furthest outposts of the invading army of bricks and mortar whose station lay for the present nearly at his feet—might feel at last that he was clear of London.



COMPREHENSION

Answer the following questions:

1. When does the narrator prefer to walk at night?

a. When he is in the country

b. When he is in the city gardens

c. When he does not want the character of others to be instantly seen

d. When he does not want to be disturbed

2. What is the meaning of the word, 'incessant'?

a. Continuous

b. Heavy

c. Unhurried

d. Tireless

3. What is the meaning of the word 'grottoed'?

a. Slimy

b. Growing wildly

c. Steaming

d. Cave-like

4. Which of these best describes the feelings of the walker when he leaves the city forthe country?

a. He feels a sadness because he likes watching many people

b. He feels relieved because the city never seems to stop

c. He enjoys them both

d. He is merely commenting on both


WORD MEANING

In each line below, circle one word from each set which is the closest in meaning.

SET 1 SET 2

1. country island city continent metropolis district

2. joy smile peace tearful dancing happiness

3. exchange broken drop shattered gather quiet


16+ MATHS (Foundation)

Item 2 Make x the subject of the formula: 84 xp

2m

S 2

)8(4:

84:

4

8:

4

8:

pxD

pxC

pxB

pxA

Item 3 Factorise: yx 164

1m

S 3

)142(2:

)8(4:

)4(4:

)8(2:

yxD

yxC

yxB

yxA

Item 1 Simplify:

baba 422 412

2m

S 1

32

6

2

6

8:

8:

3:

3:

baD

baC

baB

baA


Item 4 Solve the following simultaneous equations:

757

5115

yx

yx

4m

S 4

1,0:

1,0:

0,1:

0,1:

yxD

yxC

yxB

yxA

Item 5 Make x the subject of the formula: 25 xp

2m

S 5

2

5:

)2(5:

5

2:

5

2:

pxD

pxC

pxB

pxA

Item 6 Factorise: 432 217 yxxy

2m

S 6

)31(7:

)31(7:

)31(7:

)31(7:

22

32

222

222

xyxyD

xyyxC

yxyxB

yxxyA


Item 7 Find the value of x:

5

54

3

52

xx

4m

S 7

20:

5:

20:

5:

xD

xC

xB

xA

Item 8 Expand: )2)(34( xx

2m

S 8

654:

654:

654:

654:

2

2

2

2

xxD

xxC

xxB

xxA

Item 9 Factorise:

232 xx

2m

S 9

)2)(1(:

)2)(1(:

)2)(1(:

)2)(1(:

xxD

xxC

xxB

xxA


16+ MATHS (Middle)

Item 1 Make x the subject of the formula:

yx

yxw

3m

S 1

w

ywyxD

w

ywyxC

w

wyyxB

w

wyyxA

2:

1:

1:

1:

Item 2 Factorise:

252 2 xx

3m

S 2

)2)(12(:

)2)(12(:

)1)(22(:

)2)(12(:

xxD

xxC

xxB

xxA

Item 3 Find the values of x:

72172 xx

4m

S 3

9,8:

9,8:

9,8:

9,8:

xxD

xxC

xxB

xxA


Item 4 Simplify the following surds:

2045

2m

S 4

20:

5:

5:

55:

D

C

B

A

Item 5 Find the equation of the line which is parallel to 2y + x = 4 and

passes through the point (2,3): write your answer in the form of

y=mx + c

3m

S 5

42

1:

42

1:

22

1:

22

1:

xyD

xyC

xyB

xyA

Item 6 Find the values of x: (leave your answer in surd form)

0233 2 xx

3m

S 6

6

153,

6

153:

6

153,

6

153:

6

333,

6

333:

6

333,

6

333:

xxD

xxC

xxB

xxA


16+ MATHS (Advanced)

Item 1 Simplify:

972

8142

2

xx

x

4m

S 1

1

92:

1

92:

1

92:

1

92:

x

xD

x

xC

x

xB

x

xA

Item 2 Evaluate:

43

16

3m

S 2

64

1:

8

1:

64

1:

8

1:

D

C

B

A

Item 3 Rationalise the denominator:

2

21

3m

S 3

2

22:

2

24:

4

22:

4

24:

D

C

B

A


Item 4 Using the following equation:

0362 xx

Find the values of x by completing the square: (leave your

answer in surd form)

State the co-ordinates of the lowest point on the curve:

State the equation of the line of symmetry of the curve:

4m

2m

1m

S 4

33,33:

63,63:

33,33:

63,63:

xxD

xxC

xxB

xxA

)6,3(:

)6,3(:

)6,3(:

)6,3(:

D

C

B

A

3:

3:

3:

3:

yD

yC

xB

xA


16+ GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Which country is the mountain Kilimanjaro?

a. Tanzania

b. Angola

c. Mozambique

d. Libya

2. What is the chemical symbol for Krypton?

a. Jr

b. Cr

c. K

d. Kr

3. How much of the earth’s surface is covered by water?

a. 75%

b. 70%

c. 65%

d. 60%

4. What is the second highest mountain in the world?

a. K2

b. Cho Oyn

c. Mnaslu

d. Nanga Parbat

5. Which play is not by Shakespeare?

a. Cymbeline

b. Othello

c. Pygmalion

d. Pericles


6. Who composed 'The Planets' suite?

a. Ludwig Beethoven

b. Robert Schumann

c. Gustav Holst

d. Ralph Vaughan Williams

7. Who wrote 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'

a. J.K. Rowling

b. Douglas Adams

c. Eoin Colfer

d. Christopher Paolini

8. What are named in the Periodic Table?

a. Wave frequencies

b. Chemical elements

c. Seismic activities

d. Measurements of time

9. What is the most widely recognized national symbol

of Canada?

a. Maple Leaf

b. Pineapple

c. Sycamore Leaf

d. Seagull

10. What is the residence of the US President known as?

a. The White Palace

b. The Empire State Building

c. Times Square

d. The White House


16+ Exam Examples - Solutions

Maths

Foundation

1. A

2. A

3. B

4. A

5. B

6. A

7. D

8. A

9. C

Middle

1. A

2. D

3. C

4. C

5. C

6. A

Advanced

1. D

2. C

3. D

4. A/C/B

English

1. C

2. A

3. D

4. D

city/metropolis

joy/happiness

broken/shattered

General Knowledge

1. A

2. D

3. B

4. A

5. C

6. C

7. B

8. B

9. A

10. D

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