St.

Francis’ College
Practice Entrance Examination
for entry into Year 7

Mathematics Paper
Time allowed – 1 hour

Name:

Date of birth:

Present school:

Please attempt as many questions as you can.

If you cannot do a question leave it out and if you have time you can
come back to it at the end.

You should show all of your working out in the spaces provided.

Calculators are not allowed.

2. 547 – 298 =

3. 13 x 8 =

4. 195 x 47 =

5. 207 ÷ 9 =

6. 1081 ÷ 23=
7. Sophie carried out a survey and asked her friends what their favourite snack
was at break time. The bar chart below shows her results.

a) How many liked fruit best?

b) How many more people liked crisps than biscuits?

c) How many friends did she ask in total?

8. Underneath each shape write down its name.

a)

b)

10. How many

a) centimetres are there in 70mm?

b) grams are there in 4kg?

c) millilitres are there in 3 litres?

11. The temperature recorded on one day in 5 different cities in the world are
shown below.

-120c 8 0c 190c -40c 230c

What is the difference in temperature between the hottest and the coldest
cities?
12. Write the following in order of size, smallest first

a) 2.34 2.4 3.42 2.43 4.3

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b) 0.55 48% 0.467
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13. Find

!
a) of 34
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b) of 72
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c) of 2
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14.

a) What Maths word is spelt out by these coordinates?

(5 , 4) (1, 3) (6, 3) (3, 4) (6, 5) (5, 3)

b) What does this word mean?

15. Write down the next two numbers in each of the following sequences.

a) 3 6 12 24 48

b) 58 57 55 52 48
16. Write down

a) all the factors of 24

b) the first 4 multiples of 7

c) the third square number

d) the fifth prime number

17. There are 27 students in Miss Calculation’s class. Miss Calculation buys 4 boxes
of chocolates. There are 36 chocolates in each box. She shares the chocolates
out equally among her 27 students.

a) How many chocolates will each student receive?

b) How many chocolates will be left over?

18. A child’s heart beats 80 times per minute. How many times will it beat between
8.30am and 3.30pm on the same day?
19. 2 packets of crisps and 2 drinks cost £1.50. 2 packets of crisps and 1 drink
costs £1.10. How much would 4 packets of crisps and 3 drinks cost?

20. The number of goals scored by St Francis’ netball team in their last 10 games
are as follows.

7 2 12 10 5 3 7 11 6 4

Find the mean

21. Round 7285 to the nearest

a) 10 b) 100 c) 1000

22. Hannah went to the shop. She bought a magazine that cost £3.50,
3 bars of chocolate that cost 55p each and a packet of sweets. She paid with a
£10 note and was given £4.20 change. How much did the sweets cost?
23. Calculate the angles marked with letters on the following diagrams.

a)

Angle a =

b)

Angle e =

c)

Angle f =

Angle g =

24. Draw all the lines of symmetry on the diagrams below.

a) b)
25. Find

a) 10% of £83

b) 75% of 44kg

c) Increase £120 by 30%

26. Find the area and perimeter of this shape. Give the units with your answer.

Area Perimeter

27. Find the area of this shape. Give the units with your answer.

Area
28. A box contains 7 red smarties, 4 blue smarties, 5 orange smarties and 2 pink
smartie. If a smartie is picked at random what is the probability of getting

a) a red smartie?

b) a blue or pink smartie?

c) not an orange smartie?

29. Calculate

a) 14 + 8 ÷ 2 =

c) 17 + 3 x (5 – 1) =

30. Pippa came home from her holiday at her Grandma’s with 5 books. Whilst she
was away she bought 2 books from the bookshop and got 1 book as a present
from her Grandma. During her stay at her Grandma’s she gave her cousin 4
books that she had finished. How many books did Pippa take with her when she
left for her holiday?
31. I think of a number, multiply it by 2 and subtract 5. The answer is 11. What is
my number?

32. Emily carried a survey and asked her friends what their favourite flavour of
crisps is. She drew a pie chart of her results.

a) What fraction of her friends liked cheese and onion the best?

b) If 6 of her friends liked prawn cocktail best, how many of her friends
said salt and vinegar were their favourite flavour?

c) How many of Emily’s friends took part in the survey?

a) What time does the 07:55 from Birmingham arrive in York?

b) Mrs Jones arrives at Derby station at 11:10. How long does she have to
wait for the next train to Sheffield?

d) How long does the 11:44 from Birmingham take to get to York?

34. In 1990 a new 5p coin was minted. The old size weighs 5.65g while the new size
weighs 3.25g. How much lighter will your pocket be if it contains £2 worth of
the new size coins instead of the old size.

35. Sophie should have divided a number by 4, but instead she subtracted 4. She
got the answer 88. What should her answer have been?
36. Snow White wanted to know the mean height of the Seven Dwarves. One day
she measured them all as they left for work and calculated their mean height as
114.5cm. Grumpy complained that she had missed him out and had measured
Dopey twice without him noticing. If Grumpy is 14cm taller than Dopey, what is
the mean height of the Seven Dwarves?

37. A school has 657 pupils. There are 384 pupils in Year 9 or above and 376 in Year
9 or below. How many pupils are there in Year 9?

38. Both 4 and 8 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers
(4 = 2 + 2, 8 = 3 + 5). How many numbers less than 20 cannot be written as the
sum of two prime numbers?

Well done!

You have now completed the practice Entrance Exam.

Go back and check through your work carefully.