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A Levels | Accounting (9706)
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Which statements about a semi-variable cost are correct?

  1. Part of the amount always changes for any level of output.
  2. Part of the amount changes for a given level of output.
  3. The amount always changes for a given level of output.

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A company’s profit was $100 000 using marginal costing.
Its opening inventory was 2000 units and closing inventory was 3000 units.
The fixed production overhead absorption rate is $30 per unit.
What was the profit using absorption costing?

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Which actions would, in general, improve the acid test ratio of a business in the short term?

  1. delaying trade payables
  2. selling inventory
  3. selling surplus non-current assets
  4. trade receivables paying their debts

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Which assumptions about cost–volume–profit analysis are correct?

  1. Many different factors cause costs and revenues to change.
  2. Selling price and variable cost per unit are usually constant.
  3. Selling price and variable cost per unit change.
  4. The only factor causing costs and revenues to change is volume.

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What are limitations of using accounting ratios for comparisons between firms in the same
industry?

  1. Different businesses may have different accounting policies.
  2. Efficiencies of different businesses cannot be compared.
  3. Liquidity of the businesses cannot be assessed.

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What best describes a fixed cost?

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On 1 January 2019, a non-current asset was purchased at a cost of $290 000. Delivery and
installation costs of $10 000 were also paid.
The reducing balance method is used to depreciate the asset at a rate of 20% per annum. A full
year’s depreciation is charged in the year of acquisition and none in the year of disposal.
On 31 December 2021, the non-current asset was sold for $205 000. Disposal costs of $5000
were also paid.
What was the profit on disposal?

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Which items relating to new manufacturing equipment are capital expenditure?

  1. cost of the equipment
  2. delivery cost of the equipment
  3. staff training cost to operate the equipment

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Which stakeholders use the financial statements to assess whether a company is a reasonable
credit risk?

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When preparing a sole trader’s financial statements, no adjustment was made for a prepayment
at the end of the year.
What is the effect of this omission?

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On which basis will non-current assets be valued if the business is not a going concern?

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A trader has been making a provision for irrecoverable debts for some years. He is now
considering reducing the percentage rate of the provision.
Which ratios would be affected by this reduction?

  1. current ratio
  2. gross margin
  3. profit margin

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John and Mary are in partnership. After the first year of operation, the current accounts of both
partners had a debit balance.
What might have caused the debit balances?

  1. drawings
  2. loss for the year
  3. salaries they are entitled to

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A business has a bank overdraft of $4800.
It pays for materials invoiced, $3000, less a trade discount of 20% and a settlement discount
of 5%.
A cheque for $500 is received from a credit customer.
What is the bank balance after these transactions?

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Annie and Bernie have been in partnership for some years, sharing profits and losses in the ratio
2 : 1.
On 1 January 2020, they decided to introduce interest on drawings. The annual interest on
drawings for the year ended 31 December 2020 was $1300 for Annie and $800 for Bernie.
Which effect did this change have on the balance on Annie’s current account at 31 December 2020?

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Which of these items require entries to be made in the general journal?

  1. purchase of a non-current asset on credit
  2. sale of inventory to a customer on credit
  3. the owner taking drawings from their business in cash
  4. writing off an irrecoverable debt

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Draft financial statements for a business showed a profit for the year of $62 000.
The following errors were discovered.

  1. Accrued loan interest payable of $3900 had not been accounted for.
  2. Allowance for irrecoverable debts had been overstated by $4800.
  3. Depreciation was found to be understated by $7500.
  4. Prepaid rent expense of $2600 had not been accounted for.

What was the corrected profit for the year?

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A sole trader had trade receivables of $21 650 at the start of the year.
During the year there were irrecoverable debts of $450 written off.
Cash received from customers was $42 670.
At the year end, the statement of financial position showed trade receivables of $25 745 after
deducting a provision for doubtful debts of 5%.
What were the sales for the year?

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A Levels | Biology (9700)
Question Count : 40

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Which reactions take place in the capillaries surrounding an alveolus?

  1. carbon dioxide + water  carbonic acid
  2. carbon dioxide + haemoglobin  carbaminohaemoglobin
  3. haemoglobinic acid  haemoglobin + hydrogen ions
  4. hydrogencarbonate ions + hydrogen ions  carbonic acid  carbon dioxide + water

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What is the main function of a companion cell in phloem tissue?

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

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Which statements about complementary base pairing are correct?

  1. Cytosine forms two hydrogen bonds with guanine.
  2. Purines and pyrimidines are different sizes.
  3. Adenine forms the same number of hydrogen bonds with thymine as it does with
    uracil.
  4. The base pairs in a molecule of DNA are of equal length and equal width.

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What can increase the fluidity of the cell surface membrane?

  1. single bonds between carbon atoms in the fatty acid chains
  2. cholesterol
  3. longer-chained fatty acids

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A prokaryotic cell is 5.0m in length.
A virus particle is 300 nm in length.
How many times larger is the prokaryotic cell compared to the virus particle?

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Which features of companion cells are essential to their function?

  1. They are connected to the sieve tube elements by plasmodesmata.
  2. They have a thicker cell wall than a sieve tube element.
  3. They contain a nucleus and mitochondria.

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Which terms describe the method by which water is transported within xylem vessel elements?

  1. cotransport
  2. cohesion-tension
  3. osmosis

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In a healthy human, the mean value for the number of haemoglobin molecules in one red blood
cell is 260 million.
How many α-globin chains does one red blood cell contain in a healthy human?

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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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Which features are correct for active transport and facilitated diffusion?

  1. The movement of molecules and ions depends on ATP.
  2. They are specific for one type of molecule or ion.
  3. They use membrane proteins.

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Which statement about mRNA is correct?

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What explains how the maximum volume of oxygen is taken up as blood passes through the
capillaries of the lungs?

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Disease transmission can be reduced in different ways.

  • antibiotic therapy for sufferers
  • vaccination for non-sufferers
  • more living space per person

The transmission of which disease can be reduced by all of these methods?

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Which molecules contain at least two double bonds?

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Which statements explain why a stem is cut under water and connected to a potometer under
water?

  1. to prevent plasmolysis of xylem vessel elements
  2. to prevent the collapse of xylem vessel elements
  3. to prevent air entering xylem vessel elements

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When living pancreatic cells were placed in a solution of a red stain called neutral red, the
cytoplasm became red. The cells were then removed from the solution of neutral red.
The red stain in the cytoplasm moved into vesicles, which were exported from the cell, eventually
leaving the cell colourless.
Which transport mechanisms could explain how the red stain entered and left the cells?

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What is systolic blood pressure?

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A student wrote three statements about antibodies.

  1. Their structure depends on peptide, hydrogen and disulfide bonds.
  2. They are protein molecules with both tertiary and quaternary structure.
  3. Four polypeptides provide four antigen binding sites.
    Which statements are correct?

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What are short-term effects of nicotine on the cardiovascular system?

  1. constriction of small arteries
  2. increase in heart rate
  3. increase in blood pressure

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Rifampicin is an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis.
It works by inhibiting RNA polymerase in bacteria.
Which processes are directly inhibited by this antibiotic?

  1. DNA replication
  2. enzyme synthesis
  3. ATP synthesis

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Which statement about collagen is correct?

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Which events are part of the mitotic cell cycle?

  1. interphase
  2. telophase
  3. cytokinesis

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A Levels | Chemistry (9701)
Question Count : 40

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Which particle contains nitrogen in the same oxidation state as in the ion N2O22–?

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The oxides BaO, CaO, MgO and SrO all produce alkaline solutions when added to water.
Which oxide produces the saturated solution with the highest pH?

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Propanoic acid is treated with reagent X at room temperature. The organic product of the reaction
is sodium propanoate. No gas is produced during the reaction.
What could be reagent X?

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Which statement about the oxides of nitrogen is correct?

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In which species is there a lone pair of electrons?

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Element X has six more protons than element Y.
Which statement must be correct?

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Solid sodium iodide reacts with concentrated sulfuric acid to form more than one product that
contains sulfur.
What is the lowest oxidation number of sulfur in these products?

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How many chiral carbon atoms are there in one molecule of 2,2,4,5-tetramethylhexan-3-ol?

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Which reaction mixture produces an acidic gas?

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For which reaction will the major organic product have the lowest relative molecular mass?

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Which statement explains why buckminsterfullerene has a lower melting point than graphite?

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Which reaction is a redox reaction?

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Which reaction has a nucleophilic addition mechanism and gives a good yield of product under
the stated conditions?

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The compound potassium bismuthate(V), KBiO3, is a powerful oxidising agent.
What is the significance of the (V) in potassium bismuthate(V)?

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When concentrated sulfuric acid is added to solid sodium bromide, bromine gas is produced, along
with a number of other products. However, when concentrated sulfuric acid is added to solid sodium
chloride, only hydrogen chloride and sodium hydrogensulfate are produced.
What is the reason for this difference?

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The product of the Contact process is Z.
Which reaction or process leads to the formation of a gas that can neutralise an aqueous solution
of Z?

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

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Ammonium chloride dissolves readily in water.

Which statement about the colourless solution formed is correct?

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A mixture of ethane and an excess of chlorine is exposed to UV light.
How many different products, each containing only two carbon atoms and at least one chlorine
atom per molecule, can be formed?

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In a sample of pure water, what is the maximum number of hydrogen bonds that one molecule of
water can be involved in?

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Which emission from an internal combustion engine contributes to the erosion of marble statues?

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How many chiral carbon atoms are there in one molecule of 2,2,4,5-tetramethylhexan-3-ol?

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Which equation represents a reaction that proceeds through initiation, propagation and termination
steps?

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Which statement about the electrons in a ground state carbon atom is correct?

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Which reagents and conditions would result in the formation of butanenitrile, CH3CH2CH2CN?

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A Levels | Economics (9708)
Question Count : 30

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‘Reducing the exchange rate helps to decrease a country’s balance of payments deficit because
it makes imports more expensive and exports cheaper.’
What does this statement describe?

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What, if decreased, will help to reduce the rate of inflation?

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What is used to convert nominal GDP to real GDP?

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Demand curves are drawn ceteris paribus.
Which ‘other things’ are not required to remain the same when an individual’s demand curve for
ice cream is constructed?

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A government decides that all non-essential businesses must close for three months due to a
disease pandemic.
What is an opportunity cost of this policy?

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Following a 10% depreciation in the $ value of the £ sterling, a UK exporter leaves the $ price of
the goods it sells in the US market unchanged.
Other things being equal, what will be the effect on the revenue measured in sterling obtained by
the manufacturer from its sales in the US?

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Which statement about market disequilibrium is correct?

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Which pair of products are substitutes both in consumption and production?

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In year 1, a country’s real GDP was $500 billion. In year 2, nominal GDP rose to $577.5 billion
and the prices increased by 5%.
What is the real GDP in year 2?

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What can be best understood from a knowledge of a country’s terms of trade?

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The prices of a country’s exports rise by 5% while the prices of its imports fall by 5%.
What will definitely improve in the country as a result of these changes?

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What would be classified as a supply-side policy measure?

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A local council provides a tap for drinking water in a town.
Would this make drinking water a free good?

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What is not a characteristic of a mixed economy?

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Country X conducts 60% of its trade with country Y and 40% of its trade with country Z. The initial
value of the trade-weighted exchange rate index of country X is 100.
What will be its new trade-weighted exchange rate index value if its currency falls in value by
20% against the currency of country Y and rises by 10% against the currency of country Z?

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A Levels | Physics (9702)
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An electromagnetic wave has a wavelength of 2.1 cm in a vacuum.
Which region of the electromagnetic spectrum contains this wave?

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An observer is standing on a railway platform. A train passes the observer at constant speed
while emitting sound of constant frequency f from its whistle.
What does the observer hear?

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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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A uranium nucleus has 92 protons and 143 neutrons.
The nucleus emits a total of 3 α-particles and 4 βparticles to form nucleus X.
How can nucleus X be represented?

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How can the acceleration of an object be determined?

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Which pair of quantities are physical quantities?

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Which quantity is a vector?

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Which statement about collisions is correct?

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What is meant by the efficiency of a system?

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Which product of two quantities is equal to power?

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An object is stretched until it reaches the elastic limit.
Which statement must describe the stress on the object when it is at the elastic limit?

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A copper wire of length 3.6 m and diameter 1.22 mm is stretched by a force of 37 N. The wire
obeys Hooke’s law. The Young modulus of copper is 1.17 × 1011Pa.
Which extension is caused by this force?

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The water surface in a deep well is 78.0 m below the top of the well. A person at the top of the
well drops a heavy stone down the well.
Air resistance is negligible. The speed of sound in the air is 330 m s–1.
What is the time interval between the person dropping the stone and hearing it hitting the water?

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Which statement about longitudinal waves and transverse waves is not correct?

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A vehicle moves with constant velocity along a road directly towards an observer. The observed
frequency of the sound from the vehicle changes as the vehicle moves past the observer.
Which phenomenon explains the change in frequency?

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In the α-particle scattering experiment, a beam of α-particles is aimed at a thin gold foil. Most of
the α-particles go straight through or are deflected by a small angle. A very small proportion are
deflected by more than 90°, effectively rebounding towards the source of the α-particles.
Which conclusion about the structure of atoms cannot be drawn from this experiment alone?

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What are the SI base units of electromotive force (e.m.f.)?

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