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A Levels | Accounting (9706)
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What would increase the current ratio of a business?

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What may help a book-keeper detect errors in the accounting records of a business?

  1. books of original entry
  2. sales ledger control account
  3. statement of financial position
  4. trial balance

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When preparing a bank reconciliation statement, which item is an uncredited deposit?

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Why might a business use budgets?

  1. to determine the level of demand for its product
  2. to have a benchmark against which to assess actual performance
  3. to know how much raw material suppliers will be able to supply

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A trial balance did not agree and the book-keeper found the following errors.

  1. A bank overdraft of $100 had been shown as a debit in the trial balance.
  2. A cash purchase of $160 had been entered in the purchases account as $150; the
    purchase was entered correctly in the cash account.
  3. A telephone invoice for $400 had been debited to the insurance account.

The book-keeper opened a suspense account in order to correct the errors.
What was the opening entry in the suspense account?

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A company paid an ordinary share dividend of $15 000 in the year.
Where would it appear in the financial statements?

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The year end of a business is 31 December 2021.
On 5 January 2022, inventory was counted and valued at cost, $30 000.
The following was then discovered.

  1. Goods purchased and received after the year end, costing $1500, had been
    included in the valuation.
  2. It included goods returned by a customer after the year end. They had a selling price
    of $900 which included a mark-up of 25% during the year.
  3. Some goods included in the inventory, costing $500, were damaged. They can be
    sold for $300 after repairs costing $100.
    Which value of inventory should be included in the financial statements at 31 December 2021?

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Which group would appear only on the credit side of a sales ledger control account?

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Which statements relating to marginal costing are correct?

  1. Fixed production costs are included in inventory valuations.
  2. Fixed production costs are fully written off as an expense.
  3. Variable production costs are included in inventory valuations.
  4. Variable production costs are fully written off as an expense.

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Non-current assets at the end of Year 1 were recorded as cost, $500000, and carrying value,
$360 000.
During Year 2, certain assets were sold. They had originally cost $100 000 and had been
depreciated by $40 000.
The depreciation charge for the remaining non-current assets in Year 2 was $30 000.
What was the carrying value of non-current assets at the end of Year 2?

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At 31 December 2021, the draft statement of financial position for a business showed total assets
of $1 000 000.
The following was then discovered.

  1. An increase in the provision for doubtful debts, $5000, had not been recorded.
  2. Closing inventory had been overvalued by $20 000.
  3. Depreciation, $10 000, had not been recorded.

What was the corrected total assets value?

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A business sold a non-current asset. It had been purchased for $15 000 and had an estimated life
of 10 years, with no residual value. It was depreciated using the straight-line method.
It was sold after six years.
Disposal costs were $1000 and there was a profit on disposal of $3000.
What was the sale price?

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The following actions took place in respect of a limited company.

  1. A transfer of $50 000 was made from retained earnings to general reserve.
  2. An issue of 200 000 ordinary shares of $1 each at a price of $2.50 each was made.
  3. Non-current assets with a carrying value of $1 250 000 were revalued at $1 500 000.
  4. Ordinary dividends of $100 000 were proposed.

What was the increase in the company’s total equity?

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P and Q are in partnership sharing profits and losses equally. On 1 January 2021, the
partnership had net assets of $410 000. At that date, R was admitted into the business on the
following terms.

  1. Net assets to be revalued to $480 000.
  2. Goodwill was valued at $50 000 but will not be retained in the books of account.
  3. Profits and losses will now be shared P 40%, Q 40% and R 20%.
    What was the change in Q’s capital immediately after R’s admission?

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The correction of which error requires an entry in the suspense account?

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A trader has prepared financial statements which include unpaid wages to her employees.
Which accounting concept is being applied?

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Which accounting concepts are not reasons for including depreciation in the income statement?

  1. matching
  2. materiality
  3. prudence
  4. realisation

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X, Y and Z are in partnership, sharing profits and losses in the ratio 2 :2 :1.
X is allowed an annual salary of $10 000.
Y has made a loan to the partnership on which the partnership pays interest of $5000 each year.
Profit for the year before appropriation was $150 000.
What was Z’s total share of profit for the year?

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Which item is a direct cost?

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A Levels | Biology (9700)
Question Count : 40

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Which description of movement of substances during tissue fluid formation is correct?

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Which eukaryotic cell structures all contain nucleic acids?

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Some of the features present in the transport tissues of plants are listed.

  1. lignified walls
  2. cytoplasm
  3. mitochondria
  4. chloroplasts
  5. plasmodesmata

Which features are present in sieve tube elements?

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Which statement about the structure of the heart is correct?

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Which statements about triglycerides and phospholipids are correct?

  1. Fatty acids in a triglyceride may be saturated or unsaturated but in a phospholipid
    they are always saturated.
  2. Triglycerides and phospholipids both have a hydrophobic region.
  3. Triglycerides are non-polar molecules and phospholipids are polar molecules.

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Which range of cell diameters is typical for prokaryotic cells?

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Which statement correctly explains why blood plasma can be maintained at a stable
temperature?

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Some of the features present in transport tissues are listed.

  1. lignified walls
  2. cytoplasm
  3. mitochondria
  4. pits
  5. plasmodesmata
    Which features are present in xylem vessel elements?

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Some features of a disease are listed

  • It can be transmitted by animals to other animals, including humans.
  • One mode of transmission is by transfusion with contaminated blood.
  • The causative organism can show multiple drug resistance.
  • The majority of humans who die from the disease are children.

The majority of humans who die from the disease are children.

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Some cells are listed.

  1. bacterial cells
  2. cancer cells
  3. lymphocytes
  4. mature red blood cells
  5. stem cells
    Which cells can divide by mitosis?

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Carbon dioxide is continually produced by respiring cells. It diffuses into red blood cells and
dissociates into hydrogen ions (H+) and hydrogen carbonate ions (HCO3). HCO3 then diffuses
out of the cell in exchange for chloride ions (Cl) in the chloride shift.
What is the importance of the chloride shift?

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How many of these processes produce genetically identical cells?
● growth of plant roots
● replacement of dead human skin cells
● repair of damaged muscle tissue
● asexual reproduction of coral

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A gene codes for the sequence of amino acids in a single polypeptide. Haemoglobin consists of
two α-globins and two β-globins.
How many genes are needed to code for a single haemoglobin molecule?

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Which disease is caused by a eukaryote?

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Which sequence of events could lead to mass flow in a phloem sieve tube?

  1. Sucrose moves into a sieve tube element.
  2. Protons (H+) and sucrose molecules move into a companion cell through a
    co-transporter protein.
  3. A very high hydrostatic pressure is produced.
  4. The water potential of the sieve tube element decreases.
  5. Protons (H+) are actively pumped out of a companion cell.
  6. Water moves down a water potential gradient by osmosis.

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Plant cells were submerged in a solution with a water potential less negative than that found
inside the cells.
What describes the condition of the plant cells after 20 minutes?

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Some of the events that occur during transcription are listed.

  1. Bonds break between complementary bases.
  2. Bonds form between complementary bases.
  3. Sugar-phosphate bonds form.
  4. Free nucleotides pair with complementary nucleotides.
    Before the mRNA molecule leaves the nucleus, which events occur twice during transcription?

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A bacterial circular DNA molecule is 2 600 150 base pairs long. 26% of the bases are adenine.
How many cytosine bases would be in the DNA molecule?

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By which process does sucrose move through phloem sieve tube elements?

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Which feature is visible with a light microscope using a natural light source?

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Which organelles found in animal or plant cells are surrounded by double membranes?

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Which events listed are part of the cell cycle?

  1. interphase
  2. prophase
  3. cytokinesis

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Which statement describes the structure of ATP?

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What is the function of the nucleolus?

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Which statements are correct for chloroplasts and also for mitochondria?

  1. They contain 80S ribosomes.
  2. They can transcribe their circular DNA.
  3. They can translate mRNA.
  4. They are enclosed by double membranes.

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A Levels | Chemistry (9701)
Question Count : 40

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Two moles of VO2+ions react with one mole of zinc atoms in the presence of dilute acid. The
products include Zn2+ ions and an ion, Y. Ion Y contains vanadium. Only zinc and vanadium
change oxidation state in the reaction.
What is ion Y?

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There are two naturally occuring isotopes of bromine. One isotope has 44 neutrons. The other
isotope has 46 neutrons.
Ignoring fragments, how many peaks are there in the mass spectrum of tribromomethane, 12C1HBr3?

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Which statement is correct?

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A mixture contains magnesium carbonate and barium carbonate only. A sample of the mixture is
dissolved in nitric acid to produce a solution.

How could this solution be processed into a magnesium compound and a separate barium
compound?

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Q is a Group 2 metal.

An excess of QCO3(s) is added to H2SO4(aq) followed by filtration. A sample of QSO4 is then
obtained by evaporation of the filtrate.

What could be the identity of Q?

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Methylbut-2-ene reacts with HBr at room temperature to produce compound X as a major product.
Compound X reacts with KCN in ethanol to produce compound Y.
Compound Y is hydrolysed with acid to produce compound Z.
What is compound Z?

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Compound Q can be hydrolysed by HCl(aq). The two products of this hydrolysis have the same
empirical formula.
What could Q be?

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2-bromopropane reacts with hot ethanolic sodium hydroxide.
Which substance is the major product of this reaction?

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When an evacuated glass bulb of volume 200 cm3 is filled with a gas at 300K and 101 kPa, the
mass of the bulb increases by 0.68 g. The gas obeys the ideal gas equation.
What is the identity of the gas?

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How many structurally isomeric secondary alcohols are there with the molecular formula C5H12O?

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NCl3 reacts with H2O.

NCl3 + 3H2O → NH3 + 3HClO

The oxidation state of nitrogen does not change in this reaction.
Which statement is correct?

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NH4NO3 decomposes into N2O and H2O on heating.

Which statements are correct?

  1. The ammonium ion is behaving as a reducing agent.
  2. The nitrate(V) ion is behaving as an oxidising agent.
  3. It is a redox reaction.
  4. It is a disproportionation reaction.

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T is an organic compound which contains 66.7% by mass of carbon. T also contains one atom of
oxygen per molecule.
T reacts with alkaline I2(aq) to produce a yellow precipitate.
What is T?

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Solid R is added to a solution of ammonium nitrate and the mixture is heated. A gas is given off
which turns red litmus to blue.
What could be R?

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Which species is a free radical?

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Which reagent:

  • can confirm the presence of a carbonyl group in an organic compound
  • does not distinguish between aldehydes and ketones?

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Which statement explains why calcium has a higher melting point than barium?

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The compound (CH3)3NAlCl3 has a simple molecular structure.
Which statement about (CH3)3NAlCl3 is correct?

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For the element sulfur, which pair of ionisation energies has the largest difference between them?

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Which compound will decolourise Br2(aq)?

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In a catalytic converter, 5.6 g of carbon monoxide react with an excess of nitrogen monoxide.
What is produced in this reaction?

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A Levels | Economics (9708)
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Which statement about the circular flow of income is correct?

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A rise in the price of a good is accompanied by an increase in the quantity demanded.
What could explain this?

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Why will a contractionary monetary policy reduce inflation?

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A government raises interest rates to improve the current account of the balance of payments.
What might reduce the effectiveness of this policy?

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An increase in which variable is a contractionary monetary policy?

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What is most likely to cause a rise in a country’s exchange rate?

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Which type of tax used in different countries is a direct tax?

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What is most likely to cause a shift in the supply curve for rice?

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Assuming nothing else changes, which change in an economy’s labour market will cause the
production possibility curve to shift to the left?

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What would be likely to decrease inflation in an economy?

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A country with a floating exchange rate experiences a large surplus on the current account of its
balance of payments.
What is likely to decrease as a consequence?

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Which change is shown directly by the use of aggregate demand and aggregate supply analysis?

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Which change affecting the foreign exchange market for the US$ would be most likely to result in
a shift to the right of the demand curve and a movement along the supply curve?

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What is used to convert nominal GDP to real GDP?

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A government fixes a maximum price for a product in order to increase its consumption.
What would be the likely outcome of such a policy?

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What is a certain outcome on an aggregate demand and aggregate supply diagram of an
increase in factor productivity?

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A Levels | Physics (9702)
Question Count : 40

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The principle of superposition states that a certain quantity is added when two or more waves
meet at a point.
What is this quantity?

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Which two units are identical when expressed in terms of SI base units?

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Which statement is correct for all types of progressive wave?

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A nichrome wire has a resistance of 15Ω and a diameter of 3.0 mm. The number density of the
free electrons in nichrome is 9.0 × 1028 m–3.
A potential difference (p.d.) of 6.0V is applied between the ends of the wire.
What is the average drift speed of the free electrons in the wire?

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An unstretched spring has a length of 2.0 cm.
The spring is then stretched within its limit of proportionality by a tensile force of 1.5 N so that the
elastic potential energy stored in the spring is 0.045 J.
What is the stretched length of the spring?

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Which statement about βdecay is correct?

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Which statement is not a requirement of a pair of forces that obey Newton’s third law of motion?

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A stationary wave is formed by two progressive waves travelling in opposite directions along the
same line of travel.
Which statement about the two progressive waves is not correct?

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For a current-carrying wire, the current can be calculated using the equation shown.
I = Anvq
What is the meaning of n?

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An α-particle passes close to a gold nucleus and is deflected through an angle greater than 90°.
Which property of the α-particle changes as a result of the deflection?

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What is a conclusion from the alpha-particle scattering experiment?

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Which list of regions of the electromagnetic spectrum is in order of increasing wavelength from
left to right?

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A hollow cylinder, which is open at both ends, has a radius of (3.0 ± 0.1) cm and a length of
(15.0 ± 0.1) cm.
What is the value, with its absolute uncertainty, of the surface area of the cylinder?

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A cell with constant electromotive force (e.m.f.) is connected across a fixed resistor. Over time,
the internal resistance of the cell increases.
Which change occurs as the internal resistance of the cell increases?

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Two resistors have a combined resistance of 34Ω when connected in series. The same resistors
have a combined resistance of 7.4Ω when connected in parallel.
What is the resistance of one of the resistors?

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Which estimate is reasonable?

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Which pair of quantities are physical quantities?

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Which ratio has the same units as electromotive force (e.m.f.)?

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