GCSE Maths Exam Paper May 2022 Part 1
Introduction
It is never too soon to start revising. If you are in year 11 right now, and at the time of writing it is October 2023, before you know it is going to be exam season.
In this article we are going to look at a GCSE Maths Exam Paper May 2022, Paper 1 (non calculator) and go over the first fifteen questions with detailed explanations of what you need to know in order to get the correct answer.
Many of the questions are worth say 1 mark, so it is important that you know the necessary information to help you.
GCSE Maths Exam Paper May 2022 - Let’s Get Started
In order to answer this question you need to know how to convert from cm to mm.
Remember that there are 10mm for every 1cm.
40cm = 40 x 10 = 400mm.
This is a “collecting like terms” question. If it helps you put the question into context. Such as what is 1 egg + 1 egg + 1 egg + 1 egg? The answer is obviously 4 eggs.
For our question our answer is 4e.
This is a reflection question and the mirror line is drawn for. To draw the correct shape take a look at the shape that is already drawn. Note its width and vertical height from the mirror line.
The shape that you draw must be the exact same. The blue triangle is the correct answer.
This is a place value question and quite often the easiest way to approach such questions is to say the number. The number that we have is “sixteen thousand and seven”
Listen to what you are saying and the correct answer is 6000.
Questions like this are quite common and in order to do the question you need to convert the numbers to the same unit.
The last digit is 45% and it is easy enough to convert the other two digits to a percentage also. Remember to convert a fraction of decimal to a percentage simply multiply by 100.
12= 50%
0.55 = 55%
So in order we have: 45%, 50% and 55% which means that the above numbers from smallest to largest are:
45%, 12 and 0.55
GCSE Maths Exam Paper May 2022 - Here is another 5
Here we have a pictogram. Look at the information within the question and also the key. We are told that one picture of the sun is 2 hours.
The pictogram shows Saturday and Sunday. The question only wants hours on a Saturday.
So 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 hours.
7.
A worded question. Something that you need to get used to in GCSE Maths whether it is the Foundation or Higher paper.
We need to work out the number of candles that are bought.
Since he uses a £20 note and gets £6 change then he has spent £20 – £6 = £14 on candles.
To find the number of candles bought we do £14 ÷£2 = 7 candles.
8.
For part a) of the question we are simply continuing with the bar chart where part of it has already been done.
For part b) if you look at the scale it goes up in 5’s. Looking at the bar for the month of February it is halfway between the numbers 15 and 20. And this is 17.5.
This is why Rupa is not correct.
9.
For part a) you are asked to draw the shape for pattern number 5. You can see that the number of squares is increasing each time. So from pattern number 4 you just need to add two extra squares, one at the top horizontal and one at the bottom vertical.
For part b) you are asked to complete the table. Looking at the number of squares row you can see that each number is increasing by 2, so just add 2 to get the last two numbers.
10.
The second sentence reads “greater than the lowest temperature”
To perform this calculation we are adding 42 to -15.
This can be done by working out 42 – 15 = 27.
11.
This question concerns utility bills.
The first step with this question is to determine the units that have been used.
This done by performing a simple subtraction:
89,198 – 88,738 = 460
Next we need need to determine the cost:
460 16p = 7360p
It is important to be very careful with the units here. Note that the price per unit is given in pence so do not give your answer as £7360!
The question has not asked for the answer in pounds so there is no need to convert. However you should still be aware of converting from pence to pounds and that is to divide by 100.
7360p = £73.60
This is clearly a question involving fractions and this is an area that you need to keep practising as a part of your overall GCSE Maths Revision.
Part a) the simplest approach is to use equivalent fractions where the denominators are both the same.
512+16
=512+212
= 712
b) Multiplication of fractions is probably the easiest time of fraction questions you can get because there is no need to do equivalent fractions or to find a common denominator. All you need to do is multiply both top numbers and both bottom numbers and simplify as per the question.
31058
= 1580
= 316
Part a) of the question is a nice straightforward question.
Pred= 415
Part b) is not related to part a) of the question.
What is important to remember is that the sum of all probabilities is equal to 1.
Pgreen+Pblue= 1
0.3 + Pblue= 1
Pblue = 1 – 0.3 = 0.7
This question involves replacing the letter with the number 4 or more commonly known as “substitution”.
Remember that 6x means 6 x, so to find y:
y = 64-5
y = 19
The key to part a) of the question is to carefully read the question. The “estimate” is an important word. You want to round 92 and 1.63 to numbers that will make the multiplication much simpler.
92 can be rounded to 2 and 1.63 can be rounded to 2.
Therefore an estimate is 902= 180.
For part b) we are given 2.963.2 = 9.472 and we are asked to find the value of 29.6 32. Remember this is a non-calculator question.
To tackle this type of question ask yourself how to go from 2.96 to 29.6? The answer is to multiply 2.9610.
Also how to go from 3.2 to 32? The answer is to multiply 3.2 10.
So that means 2.963.2 have both been multiplied by 10, which is the same as multiplying by 100.
Your answer is to then multiply 9.472 100 = 947.2.
And that is the first 15 questions for the May 2022 GCSE Maths Foundation Paper 1. Any other article will post solutions to the other questions. From the questions seen there has been nothing overly difficult and the questions ought to be accessible to all foundation GCSE Maths students meaning that obtaining full or near marks in the first fifteen questions is achievable.
There will be some students who did not achieve a grade 4 at GCSE and are looking at resits. The earliest a resit can be sat is in November. Make sure that you have an efficient and effective GCSE Maths Revision plan and that you are doing some maths every single day.
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