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A Levels | Accounting (9706)
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Which items would affect a sole trader’s gross profit?

  1. carriage inwards
  2. cash discounts allowed
  3. commission received
  4. trade discounts received

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The following transactions took place.

  1. owner’s withdrawal of inventory for private use
  2. purchase of new shop fixtures on credit
  3. writing off an irrecoverable debt
    Which transactions would be recorded in the general journal?

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On 1 January 2021, W Limited had total revenue reserves of $122 000.
During the year ended 31 December 2021, the following took place.

  1. A dividend of $7500 was paid.
  2. An amount of $10 000 was transferred from retained earnings to general reserve.
  3. Premises were revalued upwards by $19 800.
    For the year ended 31 December 2021, W Limited made a profit for the year of $32 000.
    What was the total of revenue reserves at 31 December 2021?

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A manufacturing company employs 20 workers who are paid a basic rate of $30 per hour for a
40-hour week. To meet a special order, the workers each worked 50 hours and were paid a
premium of 40% over basic rate for the overtime.
What was the value of wages paid to meet the special order?

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The balance on the purchases ledger control account did not agree with the total of balances
from the purchases ledger accounts. The following errors were then discovered.

  1. Contra entries had not been entered in the general journal.
  2. Debit balances on the purchases ledger had not been included in the control
    account.
  3. Discount allowed total had been included in the control account.
  4. Goods returned to a supplier had not been recorded in the purchases returns
    journal.
    Which errors will require entries being made in the purchases ledger?

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A manufacturer has a target profit of $80 000 per annum. Last year the business made a profit of
$60 000 when 10 000 units were produced and sold. Contribution was $10 per unit.
In order to achieve the target profit the plan is to increase advertising by $10 000 per annum.
Variable cost per unit and selling price per unit will remain unchanged.
What will be the total fixed cost if this plan is carried out?

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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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Which statements are correct?

  1. Dividends can be paid out of the general reserve.
  2. Rights issues can be made from the share premium account.
  3. The general reserve can be created from retained earnings.

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A business uses absorption costing to set its selling prices.
Which overheads are accounted for by the use of the overhead absorption rate?

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Frieda’s provision for the doubtful debts account for the year included a debit entry representing
the change in the amount provided. The rate of provision for doubtful debts has not changed.
What might have happened during the year to make this entry necessary?

  1. Credit control procedures had been improved.
  2. Credit control procedures had been reduced.
  3. Total trade receivables had decreased.
  4. Total trade receivables had increased.

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P and Q were in partnership, sharing profits and losses equally. R was admitted to the
partnership. The terms of R’s admission were as follows.

  1. R introduced capital of $20 000 cash and a vehicle valued at $6000.
  2. Non-current assets were revalued upwards by $14 000.
  3. Goodwill was valued at $10 000, but will not be retained in the books of account.
  4. The new future profit-sharing ratio will be P, Q, R, 2 : 2: 1.
    What was the opening balance on R’s capital account?

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A trader bought a machine on 1 January 2019. He depreciated it at the rate of 10% per annum
using the straight-line method.
He sold this machine on 1 January 2021 for $4000. The profit on disposal was $200.
How much had the machine cost on 1 January 2019?

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An employee works a 35-hour week and is paid an hourly rate of $24.
In addition to basic pay she receives a bonus of 25% of her hourly rate. This is calculated using
time saved against the target units produced. Each unit should take 15 minutes to produce.
For a 35-hour week she produced 170 units. Of these, 2 units were rejected and her total pay
was reduced by $2.50 per unit.
What were her wages for the week?

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In March, a company’s overhead absorption rate was $2 per machine hour. In April this rate
increased.
What had increased in April causing the change in the overhead absorption rate?

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L and M are partners sharing profits and losses equally. This year M’s share of the profit is
$18 000.
Next year they plan to change the partnership agreement so that L has an annual salary of
$10 000 and a one-third share of any profits or losses.
What does the total partnership profit for next year need to be for M to receive the same amount
of profit as this year?

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Which statement describes a cost centre rather than a cost unit?

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Which factors may cause a partnership to revalue its tangible non-current assets?

  1. admission of a new partner
  2. change in the profit-sharing ratios
  3. retirement of a partner

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A Levels | Biology (9700)
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Which molecule is a disaccharide and a reducing sugar?

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Which parts of a cell contain ribosomes?

  1. chloroplast
  2. mitochondrion
  3. Golgi body
  4. cytoplasm

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Which statements explain why transpiration is an inevitable consequence of gas exchange in
plants?

  1. Hydrolysis reactions are taking place in cells.
  2. ATP production is occurring.
  3. Stomata must be open.

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Which statement describes the structure of ATP?

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Bread contains a mixture of polypeptides known as gluten.
Two of the polypeptides found in gluten are glutenin and gliadin.
Which statement describes the tertiary structure of a protein?

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The statements list some of the events in the cardiac cycle. They are not in the correct order.

  1. The impulse travels through Purkyne tissue.
  2. A wave of excitation sweeps across the atria
  3. The atrioventricular node delays the impulse for a fraction of a second.
  4. The sinoatrial node contracts.
  5. The wave of excitation sweeps upwards from the base of the ventricles.
  6. The ventricles contract.
  7. The atria contract.

Which statement describes the sixth of these events to occur in the cardiac cycle?

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Which pair of molecules only includes macromolecules that can be found in animal cells?

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Which statement about B-lymphocytes and T-lymphocytes is correct?

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Which statements about light microscopy are always correct?

  1. The greater the resolution of a light microscope, the greater the detail that can be
    seen.
  2. The greater the magnification of a light microscope, the greater the detail that can
    be seen.
  3. Increasing the magnification of a light microscope up to its limit of resolution allows
    more detail to be seen.
  4. The shorter the wavelength of light used in a light microscope, the greater the detail
    that can be seen.

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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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Which feature is correct for all known viruses?

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What happens during ventricular systole in a mammalian heart?

  1. The atrioventricular node transmits an electrical signal to the apex of the heart.
  2. The pressure in the ventricles drops below the pressure in the atria.
  3. The atrioventricular valves close and the semilunar valves open.

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

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Which statements about the cardiac cycle are correct?

  1. The atrioventricular valves close during atrial systole.
  2. The left and right ventricles contract together.
  3. There is a time delay as the electrical impulse passes from the atrioventricular node
    to the sinoatrial node.
  4. Electrical impulses pass along the Purkyne tissue to the ventricles.

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Which descriptions apply to phloem sieve tube elements and to xylem vessel elements?

  1. no cytoplasm
  2. no end walls
  3. no nucleus

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Mass flow is the bulk movement of materials from one place to another.
How many of the vessels listed carry fluids by mass flow?
● artery
● phloem sieve tube
● vein
● xylem vessel

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A student used Benedict’s solution to test a sample known to contain carbohydrate.
At the end of the test the solution was blue.
Which carbohydrate could be present in the sample?

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Which statements explain the differences between a primary and a secondary response to
exposure to the same antigen?

  1. The primary response is slow, because there are only a few B-lymphocytes that are
    specific to the antigen.
  2. The secondary response is faster, because there are many memory cells specific to
    the antigen.
  3. More antibodies are produced during the secondary response, because many of the
    memory cells differentiate into plasma cells specific to the antigen.

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Which tissue types are present in the walls of all blood vessels?

  1. collagen
  2. elastic
  3. endothelial
  4. smooth muscle

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What describes cellulose?

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Which statement supports the theory of active loading of sucrose into companion cells?

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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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This question refers to isolated gaseous atoms in the ground state.
In which atom are all electrons paired?

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Which statement concerning the hydrolysis of 1-bromopropane with water is correct?

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Equal volumes of saturated solutions of magnesium hydroxide, calcium hydroxide and strontium
hydroxide are completely neutralised with dilute sulfuric acid.
The water is gently evaporated from each of the resulting solutions, leaving the corresponding solid
sulfates.
These solid sulfates are completely dissolved in the minimum volume of water needed to produce
saturated solutions.
Which statement about the volumes of water needed to dissolve the sulfates is correct?

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Which equation represents the reaction whose standard enthalpy change is the standard enthalpy
change of formation of water?

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

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

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Sodium, magnesium, aluminium, silicon and phosphorus are all elements in Period 3 of the Periodic
Table.
Three statements about the oxides and chlorides of these elements are given.

  1. The ionically bonded oxides all react with dilute hydrochloric acid
  2. All metal chlorides produce neutral solutions when added to water
  3. The two most electronegative elements both form covalently bonded chlorides.

Which statements are correct?

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Which reaction mixture produces an acidic gas?

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Which statement about the first ionisation energies of magnesium and neon is correct?

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If 1 mole of hexane combusts in an excess of oxygen, how many moles of products are formed?

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LiAlH4 contains AlH4 ions in which aluminium has an oxidation state of +3.
LiAlH4 reacts with water, as shown.

LiAlH4 + 4H2O → 4H2 + LiOH + Al(OH)3

In this reaction, each of the four water molecules produces one hydroxide ion. It does this by losing
one H+ ion, which reacts with the LiAlH4.
Which changes in oxidation number occur in this reaction?

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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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A student adds 3 mol of acidified K2Cr2O7 to an excess of I ions.

The chromium is all reduced to Cr3+ and I ions are oxidised to I2.

The I2 released is reduced back to I ions by X mol of S2O3 2– ions.

1 mol of I2 is reduced by 2 mol of S2O3 2– ions.

What is the value of X?

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A student mixes 25.0 cm3 of 0.350 mol dm-3 sodium hydroxide solution with 25.0 cm3 of
0.350 mol dm-3 hydrochloric acid. The temperature increases by 2.5 °C. No heat is lost to the
surroundings.

The final mixture has a specific heat capacity of 4.2 J cm-3K-1.

What is the molar enthalpy change for the reaction?

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

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Which pair of alcohols are isomers of each other?

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A Levels | Economics (9708)
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An increase in what will shift the aggregate demand curve in an economy to the right?

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Which statement correctly describes the shape of the demand curve for a normal good?

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What is not a function of money?

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What would be the best policy to increase the value of a currency?

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A change in which factor will be least likely to alter a consumer’s ability to pay for a product?

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Which measure to correct a balance of payments current account deficit would be classified as
an expenditure-reducing policy?

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What is unlikely to occur with an increase in the provision of public goods?

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Which factor of production is needed first in order to set up a new business?

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What is least likely to rise as a result of the use of expansionary fiscal policy?

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In which situation will a country’s terms of trade improve?

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

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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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What will be the result of a subsidy that is given to the producers of a good with an inelastic
demand curve?

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Which change will not affect the balance of payments current account?

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Which list has the most words that are more likely to relate to a positive statement than to a
normative statement?

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Why does the basic economic problem of scarcity apply to both the rich and the poor?

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A Levels | Physics (9702)
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A solid wooden cube rests on a horizontal surface.
What gives the pressure exerted by the weight of the cube on the horizontal surface?

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An object is moving along the ground in a straight line at a constant speed.
Which statement about the resultant force acting on the object is correct?

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A spring has an unstretched length of 4.50 cm. The spring is fixed at one end and a force of
35.0N is applied to the other end so that the spring extends.
The spring obeys Hooke’s law and has a spring constant of 420 N m–1.
What is the strain of the extended spring?

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A technical article about diesel engines expresses the energy available from diesel fuel both as
41.8 MJ kg–1 and as 34.9GJ m–3.
What is the density of diesel fuel?

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Which unit is not an SI base unit?

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A car is travelling at a constant velocity directly towards a man standing in the middle of the road.
The driver sounds the car’s horn as a warning. The horn emits a sound wave of constant
frequency.
The frequency of the sound heard by the man is different from the frequency of the sound emitted
by the horn.
Which statement is correct?

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A continuous progressive water wave in a ripple tank passes through a gap in a barrier and
diffracts.
The width of the gap is greater than the wavelength of the wave.
Which change causes the wave to spread over a larger angle as it passes through the gap?

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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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Which pair of quantities are physical quantities?

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A desk has a true width of 50.0 cm.
Two students, X and Y, measure the width of the desk.
Student X uses a tape measure and records a width of (49.5 ± 0.5) cm.
Student Y uses a metre rule and records a width of (51.4 ± 0.1) cm.
Which statement about the measurement of student X is correct?

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A nucleus X is radioactive and decays into a nucleus Y.
X and Y are isotopes of the same element.
Which combination of particles could have been emitted during the decay process?

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Which quantity is a physical quantity?

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A transverse wave and a longitudinal wave both travel in the same direction down a long
stretched spring.
Which statement is not correct for these two forms of wave?

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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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Two coherent progressive waves from different sources meet at a point.
Which condition must be satisfied for there to be zero resultant amplitude at the point where the
waves meet?

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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 student attempts to derive the formula for kinetic energy EK. She begins by considering an
object of mass m which is initially at rest. A constant force F applied to the object causes it to
accelerate to final velocity v in displacement s. The kinetic energy gained by the object is equal to
the work done on the object by the force F.
Which equation would the student not need in order to derive the formula for EK?

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A sprinter takes a time of 11.0 s to run a 100 m race. She first accelerates uniformly from rest,
reaching a speed of 10 ms–1. She then runs at a constant speed of 10 ms–1 until the finish line.

What is the uniform acceleration of the sprinter for the first part of the race?

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