MATHEMATICS

Marking Assessment

Section A

You are required to mark the questions and give necessary comments that are constructive
towards the student’s learning. We will need to assess carefully as students may only
provide final answers. An example has been provided for your reference.

Kate has some stickers. If she gives her friends 7 stickers each, she will have 3 stickers left. If she
gives them 8 stickers each, she will be short of 6 stickers. How many stickers does she have?
[4 marks]

Solution Student’s answer

Student 1: 66

Student 2: 63

Student 3: 67

Student 4: 40

Score:

Student 1: 4 marks
Student 2: 3 marks
Student 3: 3 marks
Student 4: 0 mark

Possible Comments:

Student 1: Well done!

Student 2: Careless mistake. You forgot to add the 3 stickers that are left.

Student 3: You might have made a careless mistake, do check through your working
if there is any mistake and try again to see whether you can get it.

Student 4: To recognize and solve such question, look out for “shortage” and
“excess” of items after distribution. Due to the difference given to each
friend, it cause a gap in the total amount required. Hence, we will find the
no. of friends by using the gap and difference to perform division.
1. 1784 23 ___________ [2 marks]

Solution Student’s answer

41032 40932

Score:
1
Comments:
Careless mistake. You just forget to add one while adding terms after multiplication.

2. . What is the missing number? [2 marks]

Solution Student’s answer

17

Score:

Comments:

3. For every watch that Leo sells, he is paid $7. He is also paid a bonus of $12 for every 5
watches that he sells. If Leo earns a total of $155, how many watches would he have sold?
[4 marks]

Solution Student’s answer

$47

Score:

Comments:
4. of the boys in the badminton CCA is equal to of the girls. There are 260 more boys
than girls in the badminton CCA. Find the total number of boys and girls in the badminton
CCA. [3 marks]

Solution Student’s answer

7 units 4 units 3 units

3 units 260

1 unit 260 3 86

11 units 86 11 953

Score:

Comments:

5. Lamp posts on the streets are situated at an equal distance apart. The distance between 8
consecutive lamp posts is 56 m. What is the distance between 21 consecutive lamp posts?
[3 marks]

Solution Student’s answer

56 m 8 7m

7m 21 147 m

Score:

Comments:
6. The number of workers in Department A to Department B is in the ratio 7 : 6. If 360
workers are transferred from Department A to Department B, the ratio will become 2 : 3.
How many workers are there in each department at first? [4 marks]

Solution Student’s answer

7 units – 2 units 5 units

5 units 360

1 unit 360 5 72

7 units 72 7 504

6 units 72 6 432

Score:

Comments:

7. There are some trapezium-shaped tables in a room. Leon combines two trapezium-
shaped tables to form a hexagonal table. The new hexagonal table can seat 6 guests. Leon
rearranges the tables in a row as shown below:

How many hexagonal tables should be arranged if 50 seats are needed? [3 marks]

Solution Student’s answer

11

Score:

Comments:
8. In the figure below, not drawn to scale, AB, CD and EF are straight lines. BO BD. Find the
sum of the marked angles p, q, r and s. [2 marks]

Solution Student’s answer

180 45 225

Score:
2
Comments:
Sharply done.

9. Ezra's salary is 45% more than Kezia's. If their total salary is $8820, what is the difference
in their salaries? [3 marks]

Solution Student’s answer

45% 100% 145%

145% of salary $8820

$8820 145 $60.8275…

$60.82… 55 $3345.52

Score:
1.5
Comments:
Careless Mistake. Just forget to add the 100% term. as Ezra's salary is 45 % more. So total salary will be
Kezia's salary +Ezraa's salary. And as a result Ezra's salary will be Kezi's salary + 45% of Kezia's salary.
Don't forget focus during problem solving. Read the problem carefully.
10. The figure is made up of 4 identical circles of radius 7 cm. Find the shaded area.
(Take to be ) [3 marks]

Solution Student’s answer

42 cm

Score:
2.5
Comments:
Careless mistake. Area is always in square units. Don't be in a hurry. Solve problem with full attention.
Section B

You are required to answer the following questions with full working. Algebraic
approach is not allowed.

1. The figure below shows a rectangle and 2 quadrants. The radii of the 2 quadrants are 12
cm and 24 cm. Find the difference in area between the shaded portions, A and B.
(Take 3.14)

Solution:
2. Nelson and Duncan each have some money. If Nelson gives Duncan $16, both of them will
have the same amount of money. If Duncan gives Nelson $9, the amount of money Nelson
has to the amount of money Duncan has will be in the ratio of 6 : 1. How much money do
the two boys have in all?

Solution:
Let Nelson have money = x
Duncan have money = y

After Nelson give Duncan $16

so we can write x-16 =y+16 which means x-y =32

x+9 : y -9 = 6:1 or x+9/y-9 =6 or we can write x+9= 6y-9 or x-6y=-18

Solve the two red equations simultaneously

3. Mr Lee took 7 hours to travel from Town A to Town B while Mr Wong took 8 hours to travel
from Town B to Town A. Both of them did not change their speed throughout the journey.
Both of them started off at the same time and moved towards each other. 3 hours later,
they were 110 km apart. What was the speed Mr Lee was driving?

Solution:
We can suppose the distance is = x
then velocity of Mr Lee through out the journey = v =S/t =x/7
velocity of Mr Wong through out the journey = v =S/t =x/8
After 3 hours,

3x/7 - 3x/8 = 110