Can you take this GCSE Maths exam? If teenagers in the UK brave debilitating tests, try these problems

This year’s GCSE exams are well underway and the first mathematics – one of the three – has come and gone.

And parents who have children who go through the turbulent period in their academic career will certainly struggle with very anxious teenagers who cram their studies well into the night.

While students go through before the next test before the next test on 4 June, mothers and fathers who are consulted on test newspapers are undoubtedly confronted with the task of polishing their long forgotten skills.

A series of concepts is investigated in years 10 and 11 – from Algebra, geometry, ratio and statistics.

Yet few will remember even the most basic elements.

But how would you do it in a quiz meant for 16-year-olds?

Whether you are sitting around your thumbs or some fast amounts of bait – here is a chance to try it.

Below are some real questions from a non-calculator paper. Try your best and check the answers at the bottom …

We start easily, but you might need a pen and paper. Here are 13 questions from a GCSE Mathematics exam:

1. Training 6.3 x 2.4

2. (a) Write 156 as a product of its most important factors

(b) Find the highest common factor of 156 and 130

3. Work out the value of:

4. The average length of 5 sticks is 4.2 cm. Nawal measured the length of one of the sticks like 7 cm

(a) Work out the average length of the other 4 sticks

Nawal made a mistake. The stick was not 7 cm long. It was 17 cm long

(b) How does this influence your answer to part (A)?

5. Mano has three shelves with books

There are X books on the shelf A

There are (3x + 1) books on the shelf B

There are (2x – 5) books on the shelf C

There are a total of 44 books about the three boards

All books have the same mass

The books on the shelf B have a total mass of 7500 g

Work out the total mass of the books on the shelf A

6. (a) Factorise:

(b) Hence or otherwise solve:

7. The normal price of a mattress is reduced by 40% in a sale

The price of the mattress in the sale is £ 660

Work out the normal price of the mattress

8. The circumference of a circle is 10m

Work out the area of ​​the circle

Give your answer in terms of π

9. The straight line L has comparison 2y = 3x – 7

Find a comparison of the straight line perpendicular to L that goes through (6, -5)

10. Here is Triangle ABC

Find the size of Hoek ABC

11. Firm A and solid B are similar

The ratio between the height of solid A at the height of solid B is 2: 5

The volume of solid A is 12 cm3 (in cubes)

Work out the volume of solid material B

12. The 2nd term of a geometric order is:

The 3rd term of the series is:

Find the value of the common relationship of the order

Give your answer in the form below, where A and B are entire numbers

13. Spinner A and Spinner B are each spun once

The chance that Spinner A Lands on red is 1/4

The chance that both spinner A and Spinner B Country on red is 1/24

Work the chance that one spinner will land on red and the other Spinner will not land on red