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• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• PART ONE Numeracy
• 1    Mental arithmetic
• Maths audit 1
• Review of mental arithmetic
• Understanding fractions
• Understanding decimals
• Calculating percentages
• Time
• Money
• Speed, distance and time
• Introduction to the mental arithmetic questions
• Exemplar test with answers
• Mental arithmetic tests 1–5
• 2    General arithmetic
• Maths audit 2
• How to round decimal numbers – decimal place (d.p.)
• The metric system of measurement (SI units)
• Areas, borders, perimeters and volumes
• Scales
• Aspects of algebra
• Rearranging linear equations
• Trends
• Averages
• Weighted average
• 3    Statistics
• Maths audit 3
• Pie charts
• Bar charts
• Line graphs
• Scatter graphs
• Tables
• Tally charts, frequency tables and histograms
• Cumulative frequency graphs
• Box and whisker plots
• Introduction to the ‘on-screen’-type mock tests
• Mock test 1 (16 ‘on-screen’ questions in 35 minutes)
• Mock test 2 (16 ‘on-screen’ questions in 35 minutes)
• PART TWO Literacy
• 4    Spelling
• Introduction
• Rules of spelling
• Spelling test 1: Double consonants (rules apply)
• Spelling test 2: Double consonants (learn by heart)
• Spelling test 3: 100 words to spell correctly
• Spelling test 4: Word selection
• 5    Punctuation
• Introduction
• Problems with paragraphs
• Problems with capital letters and full stops
• Problems with commas
• Problems with semi-colons and colons
• Problems with the apostrophe and possession
• Problems with contractions
• Problems with speech marks and quotation marks
• Problems with question marks
• Problems with brackets (parentheses)
• Punctuation test 1
• Punctuation test 2
• Punctuation test 3
• 6    Grammar
• Introduction
• Review of grammar
• Grammar test 1
• Sentence construction
• Grammar test 2
• Grammar test 3
• 7    Comprehension
• Introduction
• Comprehension passage 1
• Task A: Choosing a main heading
• Task B: Choosing a sub-heading
• Task C: Comparing statements with the text
• Task D: Choosing statements that express the meaning of text
• Comprehension passage 2
• Task E: Matching categories with statements
• Task F: Choosing information from a list
• Task G: Summarizing paragraphs in a sentence
• Comprehension passage 3
• Task H: Presenting the key points of the passage
• Task I: Choosing the correct audience
• Comprehension passage 4
• Task J: Placing the key points in the correct sequence
• PART THREE Answers with explanations and Glossary
• Answers
• Numeracy
• Literacy
• Glossary
• Numeracy
• Literacy
• Copyright