Don’t let the QTS numeracy skills test stand in the way of your teaching career. Use the free test questions, information and tips on this page to better prepare for your upcoming assessments.
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The QTS professional skills test is an assessment used by the Department for Education in the UK to evaluate hopeful educators for qualified teaching positions. The sections of this test include one for arithmetic and one for literacy.
The QTS numeracy test consists of 28 questions divided into two sections: mental arithmetic and written arithmetic/data analysis. The specifications for each section are broken down in-depth below:
The purpose of the mental arithmetic section of this test is to ensure your ability to carry out mental calculations without the use of a calculator. During this section, you will be given a blank piece of scratch paper if needed.
Subjects in this section include:
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This section of the test evaluates how well you identify patterns and trends, your ability to compare, interpret and draw conclusions from data.
In this section you are required to answer:
- Open questions (find the answer yourself)
- Multiple-choice questions
- True/false questions
Subjects can include:
- Locating the correct information on a table/graph
- Copying given values into empty spaces within a table or chart
- Cross-referencing data in a table/chart
- Calculating payments
- Calculations based on specific formulas
The types of graphs you will encounter in this section are
- Bar charts
- Box-and-whisker diagram
- Pie charts
Pupils in a statistics class prepare the following table detailing what percentages of other pupils in school prefer to do for extracurricular activities.
Approximately how many pupils prefer Reading or TV?
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We know that 7.7% of students prefer reading and 27.7% prefer watching TV. Since these are fractions with identical denominators (7.7⁄100 and 27.7⁄100), we can perform addition and conclude that 7.7 + 27.7 = 35.4% of students all in all prefer either reading or TV.
Now, we just have to find out the value of 35.4%. We know that there are 155 students. The percentage formula tells us that:
Percentage= part⁄whole X 100
therefore:
35.4 = part X 100 / 155
155 X 35.4 = part X 100
part = 5487 / 100
part = 54.87, which rounded up is 55
As part of an effort to track how prepared her pupils are for the GCSE exams, a teacher compiled the following bar chart showing how many pupils achieved which marks on a recent practice test.
What proportion of the class achieved an A or a C on the practice test? Give your answer as a decimal to one decimal place.
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The number of students to achieve an A or a C is 5 and 4 respectively. This makes a total of 9.
The number of pupils in the class can be calculated by adding up all the groups:
2 + 5 + 4 + 4 +3 = 18
since we know that the percent is equal to the part divided by the whole times 100,
% = 9 / 18 * 100
This gives us 50.0%.
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