Is your child ready for the challenge?
The test in Section A covers ideas your child met in primary school. Most able 11–14 year olds get full or close to full marks — that's what it's there to confirm.
The test in Section B is where a child ends up after completing the Simple to Complex Booster Course.
This course is for students who find Section A test easy but Section B test challenging.
Print it out, or work through it on screen. You can download our answer scheme to check your child's responses.
Your answers are never recorded or sent anywhere, and there is no obligation to register.
Knowledge and skills needed to access our Booster Course.
- A1
Convert 0.5 to a fraction in its simplest form.
- A2
Work out + , giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- A3
Work out 0.2 + , giving your answer as a fraction.
- A4
Work out 4 − 1, giving your answer as a mixed number.
- A5
Calculate the perimeter of the rectangle, which is 8.7 cm long and 2.4 cm high.
- A6
Calculate the area of the triangle, which has a base of 7 cm and a perpendicular height of 8 cm.
- A7
Work out 3 − 7.
- A8
Work out −4 + 8.
- A9
Find 12 more than −12.
- A10
Write £5 to 40 pence as a ratio in its simplest form.
Knowledge and skills developed by the end of our Booster Course.
- B1
Calculate.
- B2
Two distinct square numbers add together to give another square number. Identify the two square numbers.
- B3
The sector shown is one ninth of a circle of radius 14. Find the length of its arc, correct to 2 decimal places (calculator allowed).
- B4
Expand and simplify 8 − (2d + 5).
- B5
Find the value of n that makes this statement true: 13² − 5² = n² × 2².
- B6
Fill the two blanks to make the statement true: 6² − __³ = 5² − __².
- B7
Find, to 1 decimal place, the radius of a circle with circumference 106.8 cm (calculator allowed).
- B8
Simplify 5⁸ ÷ 5⁻².
- B9
Simplify.
- B10
An equilateral triangle has sides of length 3ⁿ, and a perimeter of 3 to the power 4¾. Find the value of n.
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Section A was easy, Section B a struggle
If your child found Section A easy but Section B a struggle, then this course is for you.
Section A is typically what a student should know at the end of Primary School. Section B introduces new topics from early secondary school with a level of challenge that is not typically taught – Simple to Complex. Providing this challenge is what our Booster Course is for. Importantly, it takes new ideas deeper, often three or more of them needed in the same question.
Strong in both sections
Then your child is working well beyond what's typical, and the test has done its job as a filter: this may be too easy for them. The five tiers will be a fast read rather than a year's work. Buy the course if you want the material — not if you're expecting a year of struggle.
Section A was a real struggle
Better to find out now. Section A is the foundation the whole book is built on, and the course assumes it rather than teaching it. Sort that first. We'll still be here.
Want more questions like Section B?
The Booster Course
The full online textbook, a low-stakes quiz for every exercise, and the Answer Library — challenged not accelerated, connected not boxed, retained not forgotten. One household, siblings included.
Get access — £79 for 12 months, per household