CLASS 9

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ABOUT THIS PRACTICE TEST

This Practice Test has 19 questions. It has been designed to give you an idea of
the main IBT assessment.

ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS

Each question has four options. Choose the BEST answer from the four options
A, B, C or D.
You will find the key to the answers on the last page of this booklet.

EQUIPMENT ALLOWED IN THIS PRACTICE TEST

You may use a pencil for this Practice Test.

ESTIMATED TIME FOR THIS PRACTICE TEST

You should be able to complete this Practice Test in approximately 30 minutes.

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 1 Abha has some beads in a bag. 4 Which number comes next in this
She has 3 red beads, 4 blue beads, number pattern?
7 green beads and 3 yellow beads.
She takes one bead from the bag 5, 11, 23, 47, 95, ….
without looking.

Which two colours does Abha have A 96 B 101

an equal chance of taking?
C 143 D 191
A red and blue

B yellow and green

C green and blue 5 How many lines of symmetry does

this shape have?
D yellow and red

2 Bharat is thinking of a number

between 1 and 30.
He says, “Some of the factors of
my number are 3, 4, 6 and 8.”

What number is Bharat thinking of?

A 1 B 2

A 12 B 16 C 4 D 8

C 18 D 24

6 Suneeta shares 2.4 kg of rice

3 between 16 people.
Mass on another planet is measured
in loonas.
How much do they each receive?
Rashid knows that 1 kg on Earth is
the same as 2.5 loonas on the planet.
Rashid’s mass is 50 kg on Earth. A 0.24 kg B 15 kg

What is Rashid’s mass in loonas? C 0.16 kg D 0.15 kg

A 20 B 25

C 105 D 125

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 7 The number of hours spent watching 8 The temperature at 6:00 pm one
TV (last week) by 50 students is evening is shown on the
shown in this histogram. thermometer below.

Students’ TV habits

18
16
Number of Students

14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0 The temperature then goes down
1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 10 degrees overnight.
Number of Hours Spent Watching TV
What temperature did it go down to?

Which of these statements must A –4 C B –6 C

be true?
C – 10 C D – 14 C

A Exactly 17 students watched

more than 15 hours TV last week.
9 Ramji set this microwave oven for
B 7 students watched only one hour 3 12 minutes and then pressed
of TV last week. ‘START’.

C The median number of hours of

TV watched last week is 12.

D 16 students watched less than

11 hours of TV last week.

After 90 seconds, how many

seconds are left?

A 240 seconds

B 180 seconds

C 150 seconds

D 120 seconds

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 10 Abid drives a car for 1 hour at 12 Boat fares in a city are shown below.
60 km/h.
Bassim rides a cycle for 2 hours at Sections
30 km/h. 1 2 3 4 5
Travelled (s)

Fare (f) $3 $ 3.50 $4 $ 4.50 $ 5

What is the ratio of the distance
travelled by Abid to the distance
travelled by Bassim?
Which of these shows the rule for
A 1:1 calculating the fare?
B 2:1
A f = 300s
C 1:2
B f = 100s
D 2:3
C f = 2.5 + 0.5s

D f = 250 + 0.5s

11 A machine records the speed in

kilometres per hour of 120 vehicles
that pass the machine on a road
during a 10 minute period.

The results are shown on this graph.

101 - 110

111 - 120

121 - 130
91 - 100
Speed
range

71 - 80

81 - 90
61 - 7

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120

Number of vehicles

In what speed range are most

cars travelling?

A 52 – 84 km/h

B 101 – 110 km/h

C 110 - 120 km/h

D 121 – 130 km/h

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 13 Shobha attaches the ends of a 14 A printing company charges its
piece of string to drawing pins and customers $1.20 per page plus a
fixes them on her page. set up fee of $50.

Which graph best shows this?

A Cost in
Dollars

Number of Pages
Shobha then uses a pencil to hold
the string tight. B Cost in
Dollars

Number of Pages

2
C Cost in
Dollars
2

1 Number of Pages
2
2
D Cost in
Dollars

While keeping the string tight,

Shobha moves the pencil tracing a
path. Number of Pages

What will the path look like when

it is completed?

15 Which of the following has no real

A B
solution?

A x2 + 4 = 4

B x2 + 4 < 4
C D
C x2 + 4 > 4

D x2 = 4

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 16 Which three of the following five 18 Khalid lives in Town A and his cousin
shapes can be joined together to Nahid lives in Town B.
form a triangle? When Khalid visits Nahid he travels:

P
R
Q

S
T

A P, Q and T
• 100 km from Town A to the city at
B P, Q and R an average speed of 100 km/h, then

C Q, R and S • 70 km across the city at an average

speed of 35 km/h, then
D P, R and S
• 110 km from the city to Town B in
1 hour 10 minutes.

Which of these statements can

Khalid make truthfully?
17 0.32 is

A ‘I live just under 250 km from Nahid.’

A equal to 8
25
B ‘I live just over 3 hours from Nahid.’
B equal to 1
3
C ‘I live just over 300 km from Nahid.’
C equal to 1
32 D ‘I live just over 4 hours from Nahid.’
D less than 30%

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 19 Mr. Prasad put 6 Vitamin A tablets,
24 Vitamin B tablets and 30
Vitamin C tablets into a small tin to
take on his holiday.

On the first morning, Mr. Prasad

tipped one Vitamin tablet into his
hand without looking.

The chance of this being a

Vitamin B tablet is

A 2
5

B 1
2
C 1
3

D 2
3

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 Answer Key

1 D

2 D

3 D

4 D

5 B

6 D

7 D

8 B

9 D

10 A

11 B

12 C

13 B

14 D

15 B

16 D

17 A

18 D

19 A

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