TSA Calibration Test

1 /10

A form class of 25 students all study different subjects. They each study at least one humanity: English, History, Geography, Philosophy, but no one studies more than 3 of these. 80% study English, 40% study Geography, 16% study Philosophy and 28% study History.

Here are some statements:

A At least 3 students must study English and History

B There may be no students who study English and Philosophy

C No more than 6 students study History and Geography

Which of the above statements are false?

A only

B and C

A and B

A and C

All of the above

2 /10

The NHS provides free healthcare to patients, even if they could not afford the cost if asked to pay. This is achieved through taxing every worker a percentage of their salary, in order that those with less can be treated equally. Some workers will be taxed more than they receive in healthcare, while others will receive more than they are taxed. Which of the following best illustrates the underlying principal of this statement?

A doctor’s judgement must be impartial, regardless of the nature of their patient’s situation

All shoplifters are prosecuted because if one was let off, then it would be unfair on the others

A man realises he hasn’t got enough change for his petrol at the till, so the woman in the queue behind him gives him the difference as a kind gesture.

The NHS service is better than the private health service because everyone is treated as equals.

A ship’s journey is longer than expected, so food is rationed in order that it everyone can eat enough.

3 /10

If you include tiny portions of nuts in the food of an infant with a nut allergy, the likelihood of them ‘growing out’ of their nut allergy increases. This form of inoculation is not guaranteed however, and there is still an element of luck involved if the infant does grow out of the allergy. Which of the following expresses the general principle contained in the above argument?

Giving someone dead pathogenic bacteria can inoculate them against that pathogen

Inoculation has statistically significant impacts, though other factors like chance also impact this

Nut content should be clearly labelled on food due to the commonality and potential severity of allergy

Parents should be extremely careful about giving their infants particular foods

A child’s upbringing is important for determining their allergy development

4 /10

Countries need measures beyond GDP to help with policy planning. It’s important to measure happiness and well-being on a national and local level and offer the results to the public, because what you measure gets attention! When you present well-being results to the public, it opens people’s eyes to differences in well-being. This creates a desire to understand why the situation is like this and what can be done to improve it. It’s only when citizens ask for change that politicians listen and act. Which of the following best expresses the main conclusion of the above argument?

Publishing well-being data is more likely to spark policy change than GDP data

GDP is a poor measure of a country’s success

We need to get politician’s attention to spark change

Publishing GDP data is not a productive strategy for change

The public need to see the right information in order to guide policy change

5 /10

Clean sport matters. It ensures that you and your competitors compete on a level playing field and that your sporting success is a result of hard work, determination, and respect for the rules. There can be consequences such as a ban from all sports for falling foul of the Anti-Doping Rules.Which of the following can be drawn as a conclusion from the above passage?

Doping is disrespectful to other competitors

Athletes should avoid doping to avoid sanctions

Doping is against the rules of most sports

It is important that athletes submit to drugs tests

Athletes who dope should be banned for life

6 /10

Hayton is north of Sharpworth but south of Barlow. Berkmont is the southernmost town. It takes half as much time to drive to Barlow from Tynebury than it does to drive to Hayton from Tynebury. Tynebury is north of Sharpworth. Which of the following statements must be true?

Tynebury is North of Hayton.

Tynebury is North of Barlow.

Barlow is the northmost town

Sharpworth is the second most southern town.

Tynebury is closer to Barlow than Hayton.

7 /10

In a word game, different words are given different scores by the total of their letters’ values. Each letter has a unique but constant value in any word, but different letters have different values. If you know the values of TEAR, RAT, REST and STAR, how many of the letter values can you calculate?

8 /10

Trains leave Onetown for Twoville at regular one-minute intervals, and travel at a constant speed for the entire 1 hour journey. One train a day makes the return journey, at the same speed, while the rest of the trains reaching Twotown continue to Threeton on a different section of track. How many trains on route from Onetown to Twoville does the return train pass on its journey from Twoville to Onetown?

119

9 /10

The drawing below shows a pictorial view of a model for a house.

Which two of the drawings below show possible side views of the model?

1 and 2

2 and 3

3 and 4

5 and 6

6 and 1

10 /10

The 400 seats in a parliament are divided amongst five political parties. No two parties have the same number of seats, and each has at least 20. What is the largest number of seats that the third largest party can have?

What is the largest number of seats that the third largest party can have?

118

119

120

121