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JUNIOR SCHOOL (continued)
FOR ADMISSION TO CLASS: Grade 6 or K-6 (Guide only)
MATHEMATICS (40 marks, 1 hour)
Note: Use of calculator is not allowed.
Questions will be based on some or all of the following topics:
1. Sets
Concepts of a set and its members
Notation (two forms)
Finite and infinite sets
Singleton and empty sets
Cardinality of a set
Subsets
2. Whole Number System
Place value of numbers up to 7 digits
Ordering, comparing, rounding numbers
Concept of directed numbers. To show numbers on rays
and lines. Opposite integers. Addition of integers on a line
Multiplication: one of the numbers is a 3-digit number and
the other is a 5-digit number
Division: One of the numbers is a 3 digit and the other is a
6-digit number
Emphasis on Word Problems which will be selected from
various sources
Multiples and Factors, Odd and Even numbers, Prime
numbers, Sequences, Divisibility Rules
3. Rational Numbers
(Common & Decimal
Fractions)
Conversion of Common Fractions to Decimal Fractions
and vice versa up to 3 decimal places
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and division of
Decimal Fractions and Common Fractions.
Rounding off Decimal Fractions (up to three decimal
places)
Use of brackets involving Whole Numbers and Decimal
Fractions (two brackets in a problem)
Word Problems
Simplification of Common Fractions, Equivalent Fractions
Simplifying expressions involving three brackets (emphasis
on problems involving Whole Numbers and Decimal
Fractions)
4. Percentages
Percentage of whole numbers
Conversion of % into Common Fractions and vice versa
Conversion of % into Decimal Fractions and vice versa
Common Fraction Form, Decimal Fraction Form and
Percent Form of a Rational Number and their inter-links
(simple cases)
Direct and simple word problems