Free Mathematics Mini Practice Paper MS2013B: Answers and Solutions

The Answers and Solutions to the Free Mini Practice Paper MS2013B for Middle Secondary students has now been published.

You can download it directly from Dropbox:

Mini Practice Paper MS2013B-A Answers and Solutions.

Included are some extension questions to Q12.

Any comments, questions or queries about the wording, please let me know so can edit anything as quickly as possible. Many thanks.

Further Practice Papers coming soon; the next one shall be for Upper Secondary students.

Free Mathematics Mini Practice Paper for Middle Secondary (MS2013B)

One of the stated aims of this Gifted Mathematics website is to publish practice papers modelled on mathematics competitions throughout the world. I am pleased to announce that the second such paper has now been published.


This new paper is called a Mini Practice Paper as it is about half the length of a full paper. One advantage of this is that it can be used within a whole classroom period without having to edit it down. However, it has the same proportion of easier and harder questions so should be challenging for most students.

This paper is aimed at what we call Middle Secondary, so is roughly equivalent to the American AMC10 papers and the UKMT Intermediate Mathematical Challenges. It is therefore suitable for students in about the age range of 14 to 16 years old, but younger gifted mathematicians should find plenty to enjoy too!

Free Mathematics Mini Practice Paper: the Answers to LS2013A

I had previously published my first Mini Practice Paper (LS2013A) for Lower Secondary students. Now, I have uploaded the Answers (LS2013A-A)!

The Answers document includes an answer grid, solution methods plus some extension exercises to those questions that make interesting projects.

As before, you can download the Mini Practice Paper Answers from Dropbox:

Mini Practice Paper Answers - Lower Secondary - LS2013A-A

More papers are coming for Middle and Upper Secondary.

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Free Mathematics Mini Practice Paper (LS2013A)

One of the stated aims of this Gifted Mathematics website is to publish practice papers modelled on mathematics competitions throughout the world. I am pleased to announce that the first such paper has now been published.

This new paper is called a Mini Practice Paper as it is about half the length of a full paper. One advantage of this is that it can be used within a whole classroom period without having to edit it down. However, it has the same proportion of easier and harder questions so should be challenging for most students.

This paper is aimed at what we call Lower Secondary, so is roughly equivalent to the American AMC8 papers and the UKMT Junior Mathematical Challenges. It is therefore suitable for students in about the age range of 11 to 14 years old, but younger gifted mathematicians should find plenty to enjoy too!