Whether you have kids who are busy swotting up on their revision cards or a teen who refuses to study at home, exam season can also trigger some of your own memories of your former school days. From the smell of the exam hall to the sound of pencils scraping paper or the clock ticking - these are enough to put a chill down your spine.
These are also things that school children today might be experiencing too - even though it feels like only yesterday that you were looking at primary school offers. While your homework days are long gone, there's bound to still be a bit of curiosity over what kind of questions kids are being asked on their exam papers.
For Year 11 pupils across the UK, including Leicestershire, mastering fractions, algebra and geometry is a must as they prepare for their GCSE exams. If you struggle to get anything more than a grunt from your teenager, perhaps you could bond over some exam prep - but before you do, you might want to begin by testing your own knowledge on these seven tricky Maths exam questions.
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Unless you have a career that uses numbers on a daily basis, you can't be expected to remember how to work out the square root of something or what the median value means. Let's be honest, you're not the only one who has to resort to using your phone's calculator when trying to split the bill at a restaurant.
We've put together a mini quiz for our readers, featuring five maths questions based on an AQA exam paper from 2024 that permitted the use of a calculator. Unlike the actual exam, we've made these questions multiple choice and indicated how many marks each question would have been worth.
So why not give it a go, and if you're brave enough, share the quiz among your friends before letting the kids have a go to see if you're smarter than someone in Year 11. These questions are taken from the foundation tier paper, which isn't as demanding as the higher set.
Students sitting this version of the maths exam can achieve a maximum grade of 5 (equivalent to a high grade C or low B in the old letter grading system no longer used in England or Scotland). We've provided the answers at the end so you can mark your own work.
Have a go at our quiz below or Click here to see if you could pass your Maths GCSE