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Paper Two Answer Key

Question No. Key Question No. Key

1. C (93) 26. B (43)
2. A (96) 27. D (22)
3. B (92) 28. C (73)
4. B (68) 29. C (85)
5. A (83) 30. D (54)

6. B (28) 31. D (54)

7. A (75) 32. C (54)
8. A (43) 33. B (35)
9. D (83) 34. D (68)
10. B (42) 35. A (32)

11. D (86) 36. A (55)

12. D (81) 37. B (26)
13. A (87) 38. B (40)
14. C (46) 39. C (31)
15. C (40) 40. C (35)

16. B (48) 41. A (25)

17. B (47) 42. B (63)
18. C (53) 43. D (55)
19. C (50) 44. A (46)
20. D (52) 45. D (23)

21. D (28)
22. C (52)
23. A (77)
24. A (51)
25. D (50)

Note: Figures in brackets indicate the percentages of candidates choosing the correct answers.

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Candidates’ Performance

Paper 1
The mean score was 54 marks. Candidates generally performed better in Section A than in Section B.

Section A(1)
Question Number Performance in General
1 Very Good. Over 90% of the candidates were able to simplify the given expression
and express the answer with positive indices.
2 Very Good. Over 90% of the candidates were able to make x the subject of the given
formula.
3 Very Good. Most candidates were able to give the correct answers. A small number
of candidates confused rounding up/round down with rounding off.
4 Fair. Many candidates were unable to complete the factorization in (b).
5 Very Good. About 80% of the candidates were able to find the profit of the chair. A
small number of candidates wrongly gave the cost as the answer.
6 (a) Fair. Many candidates were unable to solve the given compound inequality.

(b) Very Good. Over 80% of the candidates were able to write down the least positive
integer satisfying the given compound inequality.
7 (a) Very Good. About 70% of the candidates were able to write down the polar
coordinates of E and F.

(b) Very Good. Many candidates were able to know DF pass through the origin.
8 (a) Good. About half of the candidates were able to use the properties of circles to
express ∠BCE in terms of θ and find ∠BGC .

(b) Poor. Most candidates were unable to give the correct number of similar triangles.
9 (a) Very Good. A small number of candidates wrongly thought the angle of 4 pencils is
90° in (a).

(b) (i) Very Good. Over 75% of candidates were able to find the total number of students.

(ii) Good. Some candidates overlooked that the total number of students were also
increased.

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Section A(2)
Question Number Performance in General
10 (a) Very Good. Over 90% of the candidates were able to find the answer.

(b) Poor. Most candidates were unable to give a correct example for the unchanged
inter-quartile range.
11 (a) Very Good. About 80% of the candidates were able to solve the equation.

(b) Good. Over half of the candidates were able to find the area of quadrilateral ABCD.
12 (a) Poor. Some candidates wrongly thought that the reason of congruent triangles was
RHS.

(b) (i) Good. A small number of candidates were unable to use the corresponding sides of
the congruent triangles to calculate the area of triangles.

(ii) Poor. Many candidates were unable to find the side of ∆AGF .
13 (a) Poor. Many candidates wrongly thought that the container was inverted.

(b) Poor. Many candidates were not aware to compare the volume of water to half of the
volume of the vessel.
14 (a) Poor. Many candidates overlooked that the two remainders of f ( x) were equal
when divided by x − 2 .

(b) Poor. Most candidates were not aware that f (1) = 2 and hence were unable to find
f ( x) .

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Section B
Question Number Performance in General
15 Fair. Many candidates wrongly calculated the probability of all the girls are not
next to each other.
16 (a) Fair. Over half of the candidates were unable to use the method of completing
square to express the coordinates of the vertex of the graph of y = g( x) in terms
of k.

(b) Poor. Many candidates were not aware that ∆PQR was an isosceles triangle.
17 (a) Very Good. About 70% of the candidates were able to use the relation between the
consecutive terms of an arithmetic sequence to find A(2) .

(b) Poor. Most candidates were not aware that not all the terms of B(n) are integers.
18 (a) Very Good. Over 75% of the candidates were able to use the cosine formula to
find the length of CD.

(b) (i) Poor. Many candidates wrongly thought that A is the projection of C.

(ii) Poor. Over 95% of the candidates found difficulty in founding the minimum
radius of the circumcircle to cover the projection of the pyramid CBDA.
19 (a) Fair. Many candidates were not aware that that the mid-point of AB lies on Γ
and hence they were unable to find the coordinates of B.

(b) (i) Poor. Most candidates were not aware that G lies on Γ and hence they were
unable to find the equation of C.

(ii) (1) Poor. Only a few candidates were able to describe the geometric relationship
between A, G and D with a complete explanation.

(2) Poor. Over 95% of the candidates were not aware that B, H, G and K are collinear,
and hence they were unable to find the required ratio.

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General recommendations

Candidates are advised to:

1. grasp fundamental mathematics topics like indices, change of subject, percentages, factorization,
inequalities and mensuration;

2. show all working and explain clearly how to get the conclusion from the premise;

3. write down the unit of the answer if necessary;

4. have a better understanding of statistical terms and their applications;

5. explore the relationship of different figures and keywords in geometry problems;

6. make use of the memory space in calculators for carrying more significant figures throughout the
working in solving trigonometric problems; and

7. explore the relationship between different parts of a question.

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Paper 2
The paper consisted of 45 multiple-choice items. The mean score was 25. Post-examination analysis
revealed the following:
1. Candidates’ performance on Items 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 23, 28 and 29 was good. Over 70%
of the candidates answered them correctly.

2. Candidates’ performance on Items 6, 21, 27, 37, 41 and 45 was unsatisfactory. Less than 30% of
the candidates gave the correct answers.

3. On Item 6, many candidates wrongly consider the value of h be positive instaed of positive roots,
and hence wrongly gave Option C as the answer.
Q6. Let h and k be constants where k > 0 . If the equation x 2 + hx + 25k 2 = (4k ) 2 has
equal positive roots, then h =

A. −10k . (3%)
* B. −6k . (28%)
C. 6k . (62%)
D. 10k . (5%)

4. On Item 21, many candidates were not aware that ∠AEF = ∠EBF , and hence wrongly gave
Option B as the answer.
Q21. In the figure, ABCD is a trapezium where AD // BC. E is a point on AD such that CE
produced and BA produced meet at F. If ∠CDE = ∠CEB = ∠BAE , which of the
following must be true? F

I. ∆CDE ~ ∆EAB
D E A
II. ∆AEF ~ ∆EBF
III. ∆ABE ~ ∆ECB

C B

A. I and II only (10%)

B. I and III only (42%)
C. II and III only (18%)
* D. I, II and III (28%)

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5. On Item 27, many candidates were unable to locate the centre of C with the given condition, and
hence gave wrong answers.
Q27. Let C be a circle which passes through two points A(18, 0) and B(0, −24) with
centre G. Which of the following must be true?

I. The minimum circumference of C is 30π .

II. When the area of C is minimum, C passes through the origin.
III. If G lies in the second quadrant, ∠GAB > 50° .

A. I and II only (32%)

B. I and III only (23%)
C. II and III only (20%)
* D. I, II and III (22%)

6. On Item 37, many candidates wrongly thought that (−2, 6) is a vertex of the region, and hence
wrongly gave Option C as the answer.
Q37. Consider the following system of inequalities:

 x − 16 ≤ 0
 x − 3 y + 20 ≥ 0


 x + 2 y − 10 ≥ 0
 2 x − y ≥ 0

Let D be the region which represents the solution of the above system of inequalities.
If ( x, y ) is a point lying in D, then the greatest value of 4 y − 5 x + 6 is

A. 12 . (12%)
* B. 18 . (26%)
C. 40 . (44%)
D. 85 . (15%)

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7. On Item 41, many candidates were unable to use the properties of the in-centre, and hence gave
wrong answers.
Q41. Let O be the origin. P(7, 4) and R(−5, −5) are two points. If Q is a point such
that O is the in-centre of ∆PQR , find ∠QRP correct to the nearest degree.

* A. 16° (25%)
B. 27° (26%)
C. 75° (28%)
D. 83° (15%)

8. On Item 45, many candidates found difficulty in handling the change of data from the given
relationship, and hence gave wrong answers.
Q45. It is given that T (n) = 2n +3 is the nth term of a sequence. Let 2 x , 2 y and 2 z be the
mean, the range and the variance of the group of numbers {T (33), T (34), T (35), ..., T (62)}
respectively while x2 , y2 and z2 be the mean, the range and the variance of the group of
numbers {T (63), T (64), T (65), ..., T (92)} respectively. Which of the following must be
true?

I. x2 = 2 x +33
II. y2 = 2 y + 30
III. z2 = 2 z + 60

A. I only (21%)
B. II only (26%)
C. I and III only (26%)
* D. II and III only (23%)

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