I had to go through Thinking Skills for my A-levels. The questions hurt my head real bad. I nearly had extremely high intercranial pressure. Very painful. So anyways, I guess brothers and sisters are one. When one is happy, the others are happy, when one is at pain, the others feel it too. So I guess its only fair if u feel my pain. So feel it people. HOhohohoooo...
OH yeah, you need to have a pencil and paper. In my case, I needed the whole pack of examination pad. If you do it in your head, ur just inviting unnecessary migraine. Trust me, real killer migraines. No joke.
1. George’s journey home from work involves travelling by underground railway to Euston Station and then by overground train. It takes him 5 minutes to change platforms on arriving at Euston.
Overground trains leave Euston at 20-minute intervals and the train journey takes 8 minutes. His house is a five-minute walk from his local station. If he arrives at Euston at 4.15pm he gets home at 4.50pm.
At what time will he get home if he arrives at Euston at 5.00pm?
A 5.18pm
B 5.25pm
C 5.30pm
D 5.33pm
E 5.35pm
B 5.25pm
C 5.30pm
D 5.33pm
E 5.35pm
2. Ben hires a motor van to help his friend move house. He knows that the round trip is 350 km and the van hire company tells him that the van does 100 km per $10.00 worth of diesel fuel (the diesel costs 70 cents per litre). He asks them to put $36.00 worth of diesel into the van. However, the pump is faulty and actually puts in 51 litres of fuel for every 50 litres shown on the pump. On the return journey he encounters a fallen tree across the road and has to make a detour. There are no filling stations on the remainder of his journey, but he decides to get as near to his destination as he can.
What is the maximum distance the detour could have added to his journey if he still manages to
make it back?
A 7.2 km
B 10 km
C 17.2 km
D 72 km
E 82 km
3. There is a two-way express train service operating between Kuala Lumpur Central StationB 10 km
C 17.2 km
D 72 km
E 82 km
(o My God rite?)
(KLCS) and Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), 64 kms away.
Which of the following pieces of information is not required in order to calculate the minimum
number of trains needed to operate the service each day?
A) The first train leaves KLCS at 5.30am and the first train leaves KLIA at 6am.
B )The journey between KLCS and KLIA (and vice versa) takes 28 minutes.
C )On arrival at its destination each train stands for ten minutes before commencing its return journey.
D) In peak hours (5.30am to 10.30am and 4.00pm to midnight, when the service terminates) trains run every 15 minutes.
E) During off-peak hours (10.30am to 4.00pm) the trains run every 20 minutes.
4. A designer is commissioned to produce a carton which will hold at least 1 litre (1000 cm3) of
liquid. The carton must have a square base, be twice as tall as it is wide, and all dimensions must
be a whole number of centimetres.
What is the minimum width of the square base?
B 70cm
C 7cm
D 8cm
E 9cm
A 10cm
B 70cm
C 7cm
D 8cm
E 9cm
5. A man is given two ways of investing $100. The first option will increase the investment by $20 every year (after one year $120, after two years $140, after three years $160 etc…). The second option will increase the investment by $30 the first year, and then by $29 and so on, by $1 less each year (after one year $130, after two years $159, after three years $177 etc.).
For how long would the man have to invest his money in order for the first scheme to be more
profitable than the second?
A 15 years
B 20 years
C 22 years
D 25 years
E 30 years
6. Harry visits his mother every Sunday. He catches a train from Newtown Station to Oldtown
Station which is a 10-minute bus ride from his mother’s house. There are two trains an hour. One is a stopping train taking 35 minutes and the other is a direct train taking 20 minutes. Both buses and trains run half-hourly. He finds that whichever train he catches, his journey time from catching the train to arriving at his mother's (including any wait for the bus) is always 55 minutes.
Assuming the trains and buses run on time, which of the following would account for the above?
A) Both trains and buses leave on the hour and half past the hour.
B) Buses leave Oldtown 15 minutes after trains leave Newtown.
C )The direct train arrives at Oldtown 20 minutes before a bus leaves and the slow train 5 minutes before a bus leaves.
D) If he catches the fast train, he just misses a bus at Oldtown.
E)Trains leave Newtown 20 minutes before buses leave Oldtown.
B) Buses leave Oldtown 15 minutes after trains leave Newtown.
C )The direct train arrives at Oldtown 20 minutes before a bus leaves and the slow train 5 minutes before a bus leaves.
D) If he catches the fast train, he just misses a bus at Oldtown.
E)Trains leave Newtown 20 minutes before buses leave Oldtown.
7. A three-dimensional shape is made by taking a cube and cutting off each of its corners. Assume
that the cube is large and that the cuts are relatively small (extending to less than halfway along
each edge).
How many edges does the new shape have?
A 12
B 18
C 20
D 32
E 36
8. Genetic discrimination is likely to become a real problem as more people undergo genetic tests. Children may taunt each other in the playground on the basis of genetic differences, and adults continue such behaviour in the workplace. People are likely to be denied appropriate life
insurance, health care insurance and possibly even employment if they have a gene which
predisposes them to particular illnesses. For example, an American woman with a gene which
makes her more likely to develop breast cancer, has been denied cover for all forms of cancer.
After hearing the above argument, a student summarised the conclusion as follows:
'We need new laws to deal with genetic discrimination.'
Has the student:
A) expressed the conclusion fairly and accurately?
B) expressed the conclusion too strongly?
C) not expressed the conclusion strongly enough?
D) drawn a further conclusion?
E) identified the wrong part of the argument as the conclusion?
9. A group of 5 men are able to load a pile of 90 logs onto a truck in 15 minutes.
How long would it take 3 men to load 120 logs, if they load them at the same rate (answer to the
nearest minute)?
A 12 minutes
B 18 minutes
C 33 minutes
D 35 minutes
E 42 minutes
10. Bess and Charlie start picking peas at 8 am and finish at 8 pm and take the same lunch
break.
Bess picks peas at the rate of 25 kg per hour while Charlie only achieves 20 kg per hour.
Which one of the following would be sufficient to determine the length of their lunch break?
A) The difference in total weight of peas picked before and after lunch.
B) The difference in weight of the peas picked in the whole day by Bess and in the whole day by Charlie.
C) The starting time of the lunch break and the weight of peas picked by Bess before lunch.
D) The sum of the weights of peas picked by Bess before lunch and by Charlie after lunch.
E) The total weight of peas picked before the lunch break.
11. Wesley and Eamonn live 5 kilometres from each other, both on the main road that runs through
Longtown. They both left home at 11.05 this morning in order to meet each other at Longtown
Library, 2 kilometres from Wesley's home. They both walked at the same pace throughout, and at the same pace as each other. Wesley spent 4 minutes in a shop on the way, but still arrived at
the Library 7 minutes before Eamonn.
At what time did Wesley and Eamonn meet?
B 11.31
C 11.33
D 11.38
A 11.26
B 11.31
C 11.33
D 11.38
12. Photographs of pupils are taken and offered for sale in various packages:
2 large and 3 small: $8
3 large and 2 small: $9
4 large and 2 small: $11
3 large and 2 small: $9
4 large and 2 small: $11
These prices include the same amount for post and packaging.
What is the cost of postage and packing included in these prices?
A $0
B $1
C $2
D $3
E $4
E 11.45
B $1
C $2
D $3
E $4
E 11.45
ANSWERS TO THESE SUFFOCATING QUESTIONS:
1) C
2) C
3) E
4) D
5) C
6) B
7) E
8) D
9) C
10) B
11) D
12) B
THERE ARE LOADS MORE DIFFERENT TYPES OF QUESTIONS, BUT I'LL JUST GIVE THIS MUCH. I WAS NEARLY BRAIN DEAD WHEN I DID IT THE FIRST TIME.
If you guys could do it without any problem, and got all of it right the first time you tried, then you are genetically, unexplainably smart. Bravo! Tell me how in this spherical world you managed to do that k!
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