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Every AQA GCSE Maths exam question on N13 Units of measure, 2017–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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- June 2025, Paper 2 Foundation, Q5 (2 marks): Jenny walks • 400 metres to the shop • 250 metres to the park • 380 metres home. Show that Jenny walks more than 1 kilometre.
- June 2025, Paper 2 Foundation, Q9 (4 marks): The table shows information about two workers on one day. Total working time (hours) Working time spent online (minutes) Zeke 8 200 Margot 4 110 9 (a) Margot st
- June 2025, Paper 3 Foundation, Q6 (3 marks): Which metric unit would be most suitable for each measurement? Tick one box for each. centimetres (cm) metres (m) kilometres (km) Distance between two villages
- November 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q13 (2 marks): The time Shaz takes to run a race is 1 minute 28 seconds less than 2 hours. Work out her time in hours, minutes and seconds. Answer hour minutes seconds
- November 2024, Paper 3 Foundation, Q6 (1 mark): Paul leaves home at 7.15 am He travels to work in 20 minutes. Does Paul arrive at work by 7.30 am? Tick a box Yes No Give a reason for your answer.
- November 2024, Paper 3 Foundation, Q7 (2 marks): Tyler has £20 A notepad costs £1.30 Work out the greatest number of notepads he can buy. Answer
- November 2024, Paper 3 Foundation, Q9 (3 marks): A loaf of bread has 14 slices each 12 mm thick and 2 crusts each 15 mm thick. Work out the total length of the loaf of bread. Give your answer in centimetres. N
- June 2024, Paper 1 Foundation, Q8 (4 marks): Apples 25p each Oranges 60p each Salma has £10 to buy apples and oranges. She buys 9 apples and as many oranges as possible. How many oranges does she buy? Answ
- June 2024, Paper 3 Foundation, Q4 (2 marks): Luca spends 71p He pays the exact amount with 4 coins. List the coins he uses. Answer
- November 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q7 (5 marks): Ollie and Rachel run a marathon race. 7 (a) Ollie starts the race at 9.15 am He takes 3 4 3 hours to finish the race. At what time does he finish? Answer 7 (b)
- November 2023, Paper 3 Foundation, Q7 (3 marks): The total cost of broadband for 5 months is £99.20 At the same monthly rate, work out the total cost of broadband for 2 years. Answer £
- June 2023, Paper 2 Foundation, Q9 (5 marks): (a) The cost of a TV streaming service is £6 per month for the first 4 months then £11 per month for the rest of the year. Work out the total cost for the year.
- June 2023, Paper 3 Foundation, Q4 (3 marks): A reel holds 9.5 metres of ribbon. 2 pieces of ribbon are cut from the reel. Each piece is 20 centimetres long. What length of ribbon is left on the reel? State
- June 2023, Paper 3 Foundation, Q7 (4 marks): This week, Liam works 25 hours at £10.20 per hour and extra hours at the weekend at £11.80 per hour. Here are the extra hours he works at the weekend. Saturday
- June 2023, Paper 3 Foundation, Q8 (3 marks): Three oranges have masses of 60 g, 70 g and 85 g Show that their total mass is between 1 5 and 1 4 of a kilogram.
- November 2022, Paper 1 Foundation, Q1 (1 mark): Circle the length of time between 4.00 pm and 5.05 pm 55 min 65 min 105 min 125 min
- November 2022, Paper 3 Foundation, Q18 (4 marks): 11 identical full tins of red paint hold a total of 3630 ml All the paint from 4 of these tins is poured into an empty bucket. The bucket can hold 2500 ml Tins
- June 2022, Paper 1 Foundation, Q11 (5 marks): Companies A and B sell insurance for mobile phones. The table shows the monthly costs for two types of cover, Damage and Loss. Company Damage Loss A £8.65 £12.2
- June 2022, Paper 2 Foundation, Q3 (1 mark): How many hours are there in 5 days? Circle your answer. 35 120 150 300
- June 2022, Paper 2 Foundation, Q8 (2 marks): The masses of some puppies were recorded. The smallest mass was 7 kilograms 200 grams. The range of the masses was 650 grams. What was the largest mass? Give yo
- June 2022, Paper 2 Foundation, Q9 (4 marks): (a) Ali revises each day for five days. On each of the first four days he revises from 5 pm to 8 pm On the fifth day he starts revising at 1 pm He finishes when
- June 2022, Paper 3 Foundation, Q5 (4 marks): (a) Write a suitable unit for measuring each amount. One has been done for you. Unit Distance from London to Manchester kilometres Length of a pencil Mass of a
- June 2022, Paper 3 Foundation, Q8 (4 marks): In this question use 1 litre = 1000 millilitres A mixture is made using white paint and red paint. 5.6 litres of red paint will make more than 6 litres of the m
- November 2021, Paper 1 Foundation, Q6 (4 marks): Luke buys 4 apples and 5 bananas. The total cost is £3.70 Each apple costs 35p Work out the cost in pence of each banana. Answer pence
- November 2020, Paper 1 Foundation, Q6 (4 marks): (a) Samir and Dan run a race. Samir finishes in 2 2 1 minutes. Dan finishes in 130 seconds. Complete the following sentence. wins by seconds. 6 (b) Alice does a
- November 2020, Paper 1 Foundation, Q9 (3 marks): Harry will pay income tax if he earns more than £12 500 in a year. After 8 months he has earned a total of £7600 For the rest of the year he earns £1200 each mo
- November 2020, Paper 3 Foundation, Q10 (2 marks): Put these three distances in order of size. 1.8 kilometres 1600 metres 1 4 3 kilometres Start with the shortest. Shortest distance Longest distance
- November 2020, Paper 3 Foundation, Q13 (3 marks): Milly has an equal number of 20p coins and 50p coins. The value of her 20p coins is £2.80 Work out the total value of her 20p and 50p coins. Answer £
- November 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q9 (2 marks): Jenny buys 5 rulers and 2 pens. She works out how much she should pay. Jenny’s total is wrong. What mistake has she made? Include the correct total in your answ
- November 2019, Paper 2 Foundation, Q3 (1 mark): Circle the length of time between 1.50 pm and 3.35 pm 1 h 45 min 2 h 15 min 2 h 25 min 3 h 5 min
- November 2019, Paper 3 Foundation, Q4 (1 mark): Convert 2 2 1 kilograms into grams. Circle your answer. 25 grams 250 grams 2500 grams 25 000 grams
- November 2019, Paper 3 Foundation, Q6 (2 marks): George buys some food for £16.55 He pays the exact amount with two notes and four coins. List the notes and coins. Notes Coins
- November 2019, Paper 3 Foundation, Q11 (3 marks): At a school there are six lessons in a day. In total, the six lessons last for five hours. 11 (a) Assume that each lesson lasts the same amount of time. How man
- November 2019, Paper 3 Foundation, Q12 (3 marks): A bottle contains 1.5 litres of water. 650 millilitres of the water is poured into a jug. How much water is left in the bottle? State the units of your answer.
- June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q10 (6 marks): Coaches take people to a festival. Each coach can take 50 people. 10 (a) From one city there are 820 people. How many coaches are needed? Answer 10 (b) From a d
- June 2019, Paper 3 Foundation, Q23 (4 marks): In one hour a machine can make 600 nuts or 720 bolts. At 3 pm the machine starts working. It makes 900 nuts and then changes to making bolts. How many bolts wil
- November 2018, Paper 2 Foundation, Q8 (5 marks): 8 (a) Lena is at the gym. She will use each of these pieces of equipment once. Rowing machine (R) Stepper (S) Treadmill (T) Bike (B) Lena will use the rowing ma
- November 2018, Paper 3 Foundation, Q1 (1 mark): Add 8 mm to 7 cm Circle your answer. 150 mm 1.5 cm 7.8 cm 708 mm
- November 2018, Paper 3 Foundation, Q8 (5 marks): Beth sells hot dogs at a market. Each hot dog is a sausage in a bread roll. The table shows her costs. Fee paid to market £240 Bread rolls 42p per pack of 6 Sau
- November 2018, Paper 3 Foundation, Q12 (1 mark): How many minutes is 225 seconds? Circle your answer. 2 12 5 2 4 1 3 4 1 3 4 3
- November 2018, Paper 3 Foundation, Q16 (4 marks): Amal drives her car for work. She claims 40p per mile from her employer. Amal’s car travels 52 miles for each gallon of petrol. She pays £5.36 per gallon for pe
- June 2018, Paper 1 Foundation, Q9 (2 marks): The time in Rio is three hours behind London. The time in New York is five hours behind London. What is the time in New York when it is 1.00 am in Rio? Answer
- June 2018, Paper 1 Foundation, Q11 (6 marks): 300 passengers go on a coach trip. Each coach takes 50 passengers. Each passenger pays £25 The table shows the costs for the coach company. Cost for each coach
- June 2018, Paper 2 Foundation, Q12 (1 mark): How many minutes are there in 5 4 1 hours? Circle your answer. 315 325 515 525
- November 2017, Paper 1 Foundation, Q8 (3 marks): A library book was due to be returned on 27 September. It was actually returned on 14 October. There is a fine of 8p for every day the book is late. Work out th
- November 2017, Paper 2 Foundation, Q1 (1 mark): How many minutes are there in 2 4 1 hours? Circle your answer. 135 145 215 225
- November 2017, Paper 3 Foundation, Q3 (2 marks): Circle the decimal that is greater than 5 1 and less than 4 1 0.152 0.200 0.215 0.251 4 What is a litre a unit of? Circle your answer. area density mass capacit
- November 2017, Paper 3 Foundation, Q21 (4 marks): The distance by road from Newport to London is 140 miles. Tom travels by coach from Newport to London. The coach leaves Newport at 1.30 pm 21 (a) He assumes the
- June 2017, Paper 1 Foundation, Q1 (1 mark): How many minutes are there in 3 2 1 hours? Circle your answer. 180.5 210 330 350
- June 2017, Paper 1 Foundation, Q8 (6 marks): Nadia has £5 to buy pencils and rulers. Prices Pencils 8p each Rulers 30p each She says, “I will buy 15 pencils. Then I will buy as many rulers as possible. Wit
- June 2017, Paper 2 Foundation, Q1 (1 mark): Which unit is most suitable for measuring the length of a tennis court? Circle your answer. kilometres metres centimetres millimetres
- June 2017, Paper 3 Foundation, Q11 (3 marks): A television channel shows 12 minutes of adverts in each half hour. How many minutes of adverts does it show from 5 am to 11 pm? Answer minutes
- Specimen, Paper 1 Foundation, Q5 (2 marks): Complete the table. Minutes Hours 30 2 1 40 2 4 1
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