Functional Skills Maths Advice!

Sandtree

getmore4less said:

I looked at one paper from that link 
https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/Functional-skills/Mathematics/2019/specification-and-sample-assessments/Functional-Skills-Mathematics-Entry-Level-3-Practice-paper-SecB-Sept-2019.pdf

Q9. fraction of what
Q14   ambiguous

In my experience "example papers" are normally much worse/have the sorts of problems you have pointed out. Some exams have a bank of a thousand questions and each test is a selection of say 50 of those questions. They want test papers to be helpful but not actually use real exam questions to avoid issues of giving people the answers. Some companies seem to therefore take real questions and reword them slightly to avoid the issue but maintain the same answers... results can be very oddly worded, incomplete, ambiguous and sometimes simply wrong questions.

NBLondon

AskAsk said:

question 14 doesn't state what the time format is though?
this is also level 3 and the OP is asking about level 2.

To be precise it's Entry Level 3 - which is 2 steps below FS 2  (Entry 1, 2 and 3 then Level 1 then Level 2)

Q14 says "in the afternoon" so 1510 hours or 3:10pm are correct  but 3:10 or "Ten past three" should only be half marks IMO
Q9 - I would have been puzzled by the fraction - the sensible answer is "a half-turn" or 180 degrees.

Penguin_

NBLondon said:

AskAsk said:

question 14 doesn't state what the time format is though?
this is also level 3 and the OP is asking about level 2.

To be precise it's Entry Level 3 - which is 2 steps below FS 2  (Entry 1, 2 and 3 then Level 1 then Level 2)

Q14 says "in the afternoon" so 1510 hours or 3:10pm are correct  but 3:10 or "Ten past three" should only be half marks IMO
Q9 - I would have been puzzled by the fraction - the sensible answer is "a half-turn" or 180 degrees.

I think that's why it is a 2 mark question, 3:10 gets 1 mark but 3:10pm or 15:10 gets the 2 marks.