Day 1 Y5 TSA Trial Test

Coca-Cola and Pepsi announced plans to stop using sugar in their soft drinks, instead replacing it with high fructose corn syrup. With the launch of two press releases, U.S. sugar consumption decreased by more than 500,000 tons a year, according to historian James Bovard, driving sugar prices so high that it wrecked the market for sugar and replaced it with a thriving marketplace for high fructose corn syrup. Therefore, newly made Coca-Cola and Pepsi are healthier than the previous ones. 

Which of the following statements, if true, best strengthens the above argument?

Sandra found a new way to send a message to her sister Lanie. Instead of using the normal alphabetical letters, she uses the keyboard keys to write a message. Below is a guide to Sandra’s new messaging system:

Sandra is planning this message to Lanie: “BE CAREFUL ”

How will Sandra communicate her message to Lanie?

Emily: “I have been doing this for months but I still can’t see any difference. Maybe I should take the supplements being promoted by Jennifer Lawrence.”

Which among the options best describes the flaw in Emily’s statement?

Two letters must be placed in each set of brackets so that they form a word when tacked to the letters on the left and another word when placed in front of the letters on the right. The letters placed in the brackets must produce a six-letter word when read downwards in pairs.

MO (_ _) IN

PA (_ _) AN

VE (_ _) EW

What word can be formed?

Athena wants to show her parents her average scores for each subject during the 2-day exam. The table below shows the data.

Which bar should not be included in the graph below?

Three drivers – Robert, Renato, and Noel were suspected of bumping a police car. When the policemen told them they would face imprisonment, they made the following statements:

Robert: I am not guilty. 

Renato: Robert is guilty. 

Noel: Renato is not guilty.

However, two are guilty, and two are lying.

Which of the following statements must be true?

Desmond: “I cannot allow pets inside the store. The fur will go into the milk teas and my customers might accuse me of being unhygienic and sales will go down rapidly.”

Which among the options best describes the flaw in Desmond’s statement?

Tam and Jona want to use a code to send secret messages to each other. In the code, each letter of the alphabet is represented by a one-digit number as follows:

For example, the word BELL would be written in the code as 7-6-3-3.

To test the system, Tam writes four words about games in the code and sends them to Jona. Jona tries to decode them and gets the following answer:

PLAY

DICE

CARD 

COIN

Jona is confident he has three of these words correctly, but she is unsure about the other one.

Which word is Jona unsure about?

How far did Manny travel from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm?

All living things, fish and plants included, use oxygen in a process known as aerobic respiration. In this process, oxygen is used to break down food molecules to release energy, which is in turn used to carry out all living processes. Think eating, growing, swimming, the works. The oxygen in the water available to fish is called dissolved oxygen. Fish use gills to take oxygen from the water just as we use our lungs to take oxygen from the air. Thus, all fishes need gills to survive.

Which of the following statements, if true, best weakens the above argument?

I want to purchase a Mathematics book. The book should have the topic of Algebra and activities. The shop will give me a 10% discount on some of the books. I only have $15 to spend and I want to buy the cheapest one. The table below shows the books that I can choose from.

Which book should I buy?

 It will not poison you to drink a liquid that is directly cooled by dry ice. At normal pressures, there may be some gaseous carbon dioxide dissolved in the liquid giving it a mild carbonation. However, dry ice can be dangerous to bare skin, mouth, or GI tissue if someone swallows medium to large pieces of dry ice. Small pieces are not poisonous but can produce an unpleasant popping or tingling sensation in the mouth. In a process similar to making liquid nitrogen ice cream, dry ice can even be used to make ice cream if it is crushed very finely.

Which best states the main conclusion of the passage?

Three friends – Cathay, Bea, and Janet, were suspected of paying the wrong amount of tuition fee. When the registrar told them they would face suspension, they made the following statements:

Cathay: Bea is not guilty. 

Bea: Janet is guilty. 

Janet: I am guilty.

 However, two are guilty, and one is lying.

Which of the following statements must be true?

Shanon made a table for her sunblock sales for seven months. The data are shown in the table below.

Which graph represents her sunblock sales?

Roland wants to purchase a new set of school supplies while the mall still offers its promo. Shown on the table are the prices for each school supply and the amount paid with the promo.

The total amount he paid was $29.

How many percent off was the eraser?

Facebook is for connecting with the people you went to school with and Twitter is for people you wished you had gone to school with. While Facebook is a multi-purpose social networking platform, allowing users to chat, post photos and notes, and play games, Twitter is built around the posting of short 140-character messages, or “tweets.” They are the two most popular social networks in the world. However, the result of the latest poll confirms that Facebook is better than Twitter since Facebook has the option to make the accounts private.

Which of the following statements, if true, best strengthens the above argument?

Margot is craving a cheeseburger. She described what she wanted to her friends and asked their opinions about where she should get it from. She then listed the top four among her friends’ suggestions and asked her sisters to rate them. The table below shows the ratings of each of her sisters.

Whose bar chart is being presented?

Animals are a large and incredibly diverse group of organisms. Making up about three-quarters of the species on Earth, they run the gamut from corals and jellyfish to ants, whales, elephants, and, of course, humans. Being mobile has given animals, which are capable of sensing and responding to their environment, the flexibility to adopt many different modes of feeding, defence, and reproduction. Unlike plants, however, animals are unable to manufacture their own food, and therefore, are always directly or indirectly dependent on plant life.

Which best states the main conclusion of the passage?

Ally was tasked to collect the scores of her groupmates and make a pie chart out of it. The table shows the data she collected.

Whose data was missed based on the graph below?

Leslie wants to eat Korean-style fried chicken. The owner gave her four lists of flavours and she needed to choose only one from each list. 

Which of the following can she not choose if she already chose sweet soy, honey butter, and spicy chilli?

Yesterday, in the ocean park, I saw 3 handlers doing medical surveillance with their octopuses.

Some of them did medical surveillance with only 1 octopus, and some of them did medical surveillance with 2 octopuses.

Counting the tentacles of the octopus and the legs of the handler who performed the medical surveillance, there were a total of 46 combined legs of the handlers and tentacles of the octopuses.

All octopuses have 8 tentacles and all handlers have 2 legs.

How many of the handlers performed medical surveillance with only 1 octopus?

Ena used the binary number system of coding to send a message to her friend Ebony. 

If the message “APPLAUSE” is written as

01000011 01001111 01001111 01001101 01000011 01010000 01001100 01000100

What is the code for APPLE?

Male emperor penguins will not eat for up to four months, from the time they arrive at the colony to breed until the egg has hatched and the mother returns to feed. They lose almost half of their body weight during this time. They need to rely entirely on the reserve of body fat that they built up during the summer feast to survive the long winter. Thus, emperor penguins rely upon themselves to survive. 

Which of the following statements, if true, best weakens the above argument?

Aldrin wants to order bottled water from different brands for his science experiment. The vendor gave him four lists of brands and he needed to choose only one from each list. 

Which of the following can he not choose if he already chose Vidae, Mount Franklin, and Frantelle?

Lilo: “I always play her songs during the Christmas season because I always hear them wherever I go.”

Which among the options best describes the flaw in Lilo’s statement?