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Transfer Test Practice Paper

Level 3 Set 5 Paper 1
Time: 60 minutes

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Your Name: _________________________

Your Date of Birth: _________________

Answer all 56 questions in this booklet

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In this exercise there are some mistakes with punctuation or the use of capital
letters. On each numbered line there is either one mistake or no mistake. Find the
group of words with the mistake in it and mark its letter on your answer sheet. If
there is no mistake, mark N.

Punctuation Exercise

1. “How do you make scrambled eggs” asked Ella. She wanted to make lunch for her dad.
A B C D

2. “First, crack some eggs into a bowl and add a splash of milk,” explained Dad.
A B C D

3. “Then, add a knob of butter to a pan and wait until it has melted and, hot,” he said.
A B C D

4. “Add your egg mixture and stir until the eggs are the right Consistency,” he continued.
A B C D

5. “Finally, add some salt and pepper and serve them with buttered toast.” I can’t wait to
A B C

try them,” smiled Dad.

D

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In this exercise you have to choose the best word, or group of words, to
complete each numbered line so that the passage makes sense and is written in
correct English. Choose the best answer and mark its letter on your answer
sheet.

Grammar Exercise

6. If there is an earthquake, I could can did will am

A B C D E

fall over.

7. The white husky barked the louder loud loudest noise

A B C D
.noisier of all the dogs in the pack.
E

8. Mark had a very impressive stamp pack bundle set collection

A B C D
range .
E

9. Chris was not allow allows allowing to allow

A B C running
D

allowed to play Fortnite until he had finished his homework.

10. I will always be your friend, even provided until for in case
A B C D E

if we don’t live in the same country anymore.

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In this passage there are some spelling mistakes. On each numbered line
there is either one mistake or no mistake. Find the group of words with the
mistake in it and mark its letter on your answer sheet. If there is no
mistake, mark N.

Spelling Exercise

11. Huge andA often strikeing mountains

B
can be found all over our beautiful world.
C D

12. They create picturesque backdrops and provide extreme sports enthusiasts
A B

with climbing, trekking and skiing opportunitys.

C D

13. What are mountains exactly? They are areas of land that are higher than the
A B C

land around them.

D

14. Mountains can rise to thousends of metres in height and are found in groups called
A B C

ranges.
D

15. Mount Everest is the highist mountain in the world, peaking above sea
A B C

level at 8848 metres.

D

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Read this poem through, then answer the questions on the next pages.

Nurses

1 The superheroes of lockdown,

2 working night and day.
3 Like machines in a factory
4 They never stop.

5 The superheroes of patients,

6 who they tirelessly work to save.
7 Rising above adversity
8 with kindness and compassion.

9 The superheroes of families,

10 they speak softly and gently.
11 Explaining the fate of loved ones.
12 Heartbroken everyday by their work.

13 The superheroes of hospitals,

14 encased and perspiring.
15 PPE masks the human underneath,
16 keeping the health service going.

17 The superheroes of society.

18 We can’t see the grimace
19 behind the masks,
20 only the tiredness in their eyes.

16. Which phrase from the poem means the same as overcoming?

A. fate of loved ones

B. Rising above
C. tirelessly work
D. human underneath
E. superheroes of society

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17. Based on your reading of the whole poem, which one of the following
statements explains what the poet thinks about nurses?
A. nurses run the health service
B. nurses love their jobs
C. nurses save the lives of all their patients
D. nurses are always tired
E. nurses are hard workers

18. Which of the following titles would be the best alternative to the title
of this poem?

A. Machines
B. Hospitals
C. Superheroes
D. Lockdown
E. Patients

19. Which of the following best describes what the nurses in the poem look
like?

A. dressed smartly
B. kind eyes
C. smiling faces
D. sweaty and tired
E. fresh and clean

20. Nurses are described in the poem, “Like machines in a factory”.

(line 3). What sort of language is the poet using in this line?

A. metaphor
B. simile
C. personification
D. alliteration
E. onomatopoeia

21. What line in the poem tells us how nurses feel about the difficult job they
do?
A. they speak softly and gently
B. keeping the health service going
C. encased and perspiring
D. Like machines in a factory
E. Heartbroken everyday by their work

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22. Based on your reading of the poem, which of the statements below is
false?
A. PPE makes you sweat
B. nurses sometimes have to work day and night
C. nurses get lots of rest
D. nurses speak to families about difficult things
E. nurses save lives

For these questions you have to write your answers, neatly, in the boxes
provided on your answer sheet.

23. Which one word in verse two means the same as sympathy?

24. Which three word phrase in lines 13 to 16 suggests that the nurses are
sweating in the clothes they wear?

25. Which verb in verse three means the same as describing?

26. Which four-word phrase in verse three tells us what nurses have to tell
families?

27. Which noun in the final verse tells us the sort of look the nurses have on
their faces?

28. Which one part of speech are the following as they appear in the
poem?

never (line 4) tirelessly (line 6) softly (line 10) gently (line 10)

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29. There are 280 muffins on a cooling rack in the bakery. One seventh of them do not
have chocolate chips in them. How many muffins have chocolate chips in
them?

A. 210 B. 200 C. 273 D. 240 E. 40

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30. A yoyo costs 60p. Olly has £5 to spend. He buys as many yoyos as he can with his
money. How much change will Olly have left from his £5?

A. 20p B. 10p C. 30p D. 50p E. 5p

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31. Look at the quadrilateral below. Calculate the size of angle a.

45° 96°

155° a

A. 45º B. 64º C. 155º D. 296º E. 60º

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32. The cost of 7 litres of diesel is £8.40. Calculate the cost of 500 ml of diesel.

A. £1.20 B. £1.68 C. £0.50 D. £0.60 E. £1.00

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33. Each side of a square is 43.5 cm long. Calculate the perimeter of the square.

A. 92 cm B. 47.5 cm C. 170 cm D. 87 cm E. 174 cm

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34. Look at the scale below. At which number is the arrow pointing?

2.4 2.5

A. 2.5 B. 2.6 C. 2.48 D. 2.44 E. 2.52

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35. Anna asked some people to choose their favourite type of movie. Each person chose
only one type of movie. The table below shows the fraction of people who chose
Thriller, Comedy and Romance.

Type of Movie Fraction of people

Thriller 1
7
Comedy 3
7
Science Fiction

Romance 2
7

What fraction of people chose Science Fiction?

1 2 3 7 4
A. 7 B. 7 C. 7 D. 7 E. 7
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36. Look again at Q35. Anna found that 12 people chose Romance. In total, how many
people did Anna ask?

A. 12 B. 24 C. 42 D. 48 E. 22

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37. Look at the shape below. It is made up of two isosceles triangles.

50° 50°
30°

Calculate the size of the angle that bridges the two triangles.

A. 150˚ B. 120˚ C. 130˚ D. 140˚ E. 160˚

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38. John's box is a cuboid. It is 6 cm high, 14 cm long and 4 cm wide.

6 cm

4 cm
14 cm

Finn's box is also a cuboid. It has the same height as John's box. It is half as long
and twice as wide as John's box. Calculate the volume of Finn's box.

A. 672 cm³ B. 336 cm³ C. 288 cm³ D. 384 cm³ E. 168 cm³

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39. Look at the equation below.

6.5 x 14 = 91

Use this to help you complete the equation below.

6500 x 0.14 = _______________

A. 91 B. 910 C. 0.91 D. 9100 E. 0.091

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40. Look at the capital letters below.

A C E N T

Which capital letter has only 1 vertical line and 1 horizontal line?

A. A B. C C. E D. N E. T
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41. Look at the letters in Q40 again. Which capital letter has only 2 vertical lines and
no horizontal lines?

A. A B. C C. E D. N E. T
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42. How many lines of symmetry does a parallelogram have?

A. 0 B. 3 C. 2 D. 5 E. 6
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43. The bar chart below shows the number of toys sold each month in a shop from
January to April in 2020 and 2021.
100

90

80

70

60

50 2020
40
2021
30

20

10

0
January February March April
.

How many toys in total were sold in 2020?

A. 240 B. 255 C. 260 D. 250 E. 265

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44. Look at the chart in Q43 again. 250 toys were sold in total in 2021. What fraction of
toys sold in 2021 were sold in March?

1 1 1 1 1
A. 2 B. 4 C. 5 D. 10 E. 3

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45. Look at the equation below.

9000 ÷ = 90

Which number must be written in the box to make the equation true?

A. 10 B. 100 C. 1000 D. 0.1 E. 10000

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46. Look at the three shapes below. Each shape is reflected in a mirror line as shown. A
number is formed by combining the shape with its reflection.

11 10 0
Calculate the product of the three numbers formed.

A. 110 B. 100 C. 0 D. 111 E. 21

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47. A number is a palindrome if it looks the same backwards as forwards. For

example, the 3-digit numbers 232 and 787 are palindromes. What is the largest 3-
digit palindrome?

A. 900 B. 999 C. 898 D. 919 E. 989

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48. What is the value of 3³ x 4?

A. 36 B. 108 C. 24 D. 12 E. 40

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49. The shape below is made up of 15 identical squares. The sides of each square are 2
cm long.

1
Theo and Laura shade in this shape in the following order: Theo shades of the shape
5
1
in. Laura shades in 3 of the remaining unshaded shape. Calculate the area of the
shape that is not shaded in.

A. 7 cm² B. 12 cm² C. 14 cm² D. 28 cm² E. 32 cm²

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50. At the beginning of 2021, Dawn was 11 years old and her sister Abbi was 17 years
old. At the beginning of which year will the total of Dawn's age and Abbi’s age
be 42 years?

A. 2025 B. 2027 C. 2028 D. 2030 E. 2032

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For questions 51 to 56, write your answers in the boxes provided on your answer sheet.
The units of measurement have been given.

51. Look at the shape below. It is made up of a rectangle and a right-angled triangle.
Calculate the area of the shape.

15 cm

9 cm
10 cm

10 cm
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52. What is the next number in this pattern?

12 38 64 90 _______

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53. Look at the patterns of grey tiles and white tiles below.

Pattern 1 Pattern 2 Pattern 3

Pattern 2 has 3 grey tiles and 4 white tiles.

Kathy has 4 grey tiles and 6 white tiles. She wants to make Pattern 8.
How many more grey tiles and white tiles will she need to make Pattern 8?

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54. There are 28 pupils in Mrs Hay's class. Each pupil was asked if they liked chicken or
beef. The results are shown in the Venn Diagram below.

Chicken 15 3 5 Beef

How many pupils liked chicken?

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55. Look at Q54 again. How many pupils did not like chicken or beef?

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56. A pizza costs £9.50 at a pizza takeaway. There is a delivery charge of £1.60 per
mile from the pizza takeaway. Emily orders six pizzas to be delivered to her house.
Emily's house is 5 miles from the pizza takeaway.

What is the total cost of her order?

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 Transfer Test Assessment Level 3 Set 5 Paper 1
Pupil name: Date:
Please mark boxes with a thin horizontal line like this ___

ENGLISH MAIN TEST

1 2 3 4 5
1 1 1 1
A A A A A
B B B B B
C C C C C
D D D D D
N N N N N

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COMPREHENSION 1 1 1 1 1
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B B B B B
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D D D D D
E E E E E

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1 31
1 32
1 33
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B- 200 B- 10p B- 64˚ B- £1.68 B- 47.5 cm B- 2.6
C- 273 C- 30p C- 155˚ C- £0.50 C- 170 cm C- 2.48
D- 240 D- 50p D- 296˚ D- £0.60 D- 87 cm D- 2.44
E- 40 E- 5p E- 60˚ E- £1.00 E- 174 cm E- 2.52

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A- 900 A- 36 A- 7 cm² A - 2025
B- 999 B- 108 B- 12 cm² B - 2027
C- 898 C- 24 C- 14 cm² C - 2028
D- 919 D- 12 D- 28 cm² D - 2030
E- 989 E- 40 E- 32 cm² E - 2032

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___________________cm² _______________________ ______________white tiles

54 55 56

______________________ ______________________ £______________________

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