Free BMAT Section 1 Mock Exam

John can cut a log into three pieces in nine minutes. How long would it take him to cut 12 logs into five pieces?

The Edwards family have two parents and three children, a dog and two cats. The Millers have two parents, two children and five dogs.

If the Millers visit the Edwards house with all their pets, what will the ratio of hands to feet be?

(Assume all humans have two feet and two hands, and all dogs and cats have four feet)

Cambridge is 140 miles from London. A train (A) leaves Cambridge at 40 mph with no stops travelling towards London. At the same time a train (B) leaves London for Cambridge at 50mph, making a single stop at a station 10 miles from London for 15 minutes. Which train is closer to Cambridge when they meet?

The federal government under Donald Trump won’t be rushing in to help L.G.B.T. people whose local governments fail to give them equal rights, a sense of belonging or even a feeling of physical safety. Despite Trump’s happy campaign talk about how fond he was of gays (and, Trump being Trump, how fond they were of him), his record as president has been hurtful and hateful. Immediately after his inauguration, references to the L.G.B.T. community were scrubbed from many federal websites, including the White House’s and the Department of State’s.

Plenty of the people he pulled into his cabinet have long histories of pronounced opposition to gay rights. One of them, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, leads a Department of Justice that recently went out of its way to make clear, in court filings, that it did not consider L.G.B.T. people to be protected by a federal civil rights law that prohibits employment discrimination.

What is the main conclusion of this argument?

Adapted From www.nytimes.com

By the end of this year National Citizen Service (NCS) will have supported more than 400,000 teenagers to build friendships across social divides, build skills for life and work, and build stronger communities. We are delivering real results, for example boosting university admission by almost 50% for the poorest, and delivering a social return of £8 for every £1 invested. Government funding has allowed us to offer these vital opportunities to the young people who need them most, reaching the most disadvantaged in our society.

 Which of these, if true, would most weaken the argument above?

Adapted From The Guardian

A fabric has spaced stripes on a white base. They are in sequence. A blue stripe, a 3cm gap, then a red stripe and a 2cm gap, then a dotted stripe with a 4cm gap. All stripes are 1cm thick. On a 65cm piece of fabric, how many blue stripes are there, if the last stripe is red?

A chutney recipe calls for 1kg onions, 1.5kg apples, 500ml of cider vinegar and 10g of spices.

Assuming 1ml=1g, and I have 3.75kg of apples, unlimited onions, two two litre bottles of vinegar and unlimited spices, what is the maximum weight of chutney I can make?

Almost 45 years ago, at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the national students’ unions of Britain (NUS UK) and Ireland (USI) came together to establish a cross-border approach to representing students which respected all community backgrounds and identities. By establishing NUS-USI, the student movement set a standard of leadership which was enshrined in a vision for society based on peaceful coexistence and mutual respect, over a decade before the Good Friday Agreement emerged.

Time and time again students and students’ unions take the lead – and our politicians play catch up. NUS UK was the first national body to pass policy on LGBT+ rights in 1973. But the age of consent for homosexual men wasn’t lowered until 1994, and openly gay people were banned from the armed forces until 2000

Which of these is an assumption behind the text above?

Adapted From www.independent.co.uk

A group of 10 encyclopedias are on a shelf. The shelf is 1m long and filled. On average there are 200 words/ page, and there are 400 pages/book. The covers are 0.5cm thick.

How thick is a pile of 100 pages?

A family of four has all their phones on a contract with the same account. Each one costs £12.50/month, with a “safety buffer” of £2.50 in case they over-use their minutes. Extra minutes cost 10p/minute for the first ten minutes, and 5p/minute for anything additional. If they go over £2.50 buffer, then minutes are 20p/minute.

Person A uses 12 extra minutes.

Person B uses 10 extra minutes.

Person C use 30 extra minutes.

Person D uses no extra.

How much is the bill to the single account at the end of this month?

Norma Hornby (Letters, 9 August) is right to shine a light on the challenges teenagers are facing. Many struggle with exam stress, body image, mental health, online bullying, and prejudice. The communities they grow up in are all too often divided, the job market is competitive, and financial hardship is, for many, an everyday reality. Despite this, our young people are fighting for a better future, for themselves and their communities.

What is the main conclusion of this paragraph?

Adapted From The Guardian

Kate’s books contain on average 300 words per page. There are about 200 pages/ book. Every time she reads a book, she takes two less minutes overall. If she reads on average 450 words/minute for the first book, how long does she take to read five books? Round your answer to the nearest whole number of minutes.

A machine applies chocolate to digestive biscuits at a rate of 20ml of chocolate/second at a single point on the conveyor point. If the biscuits travel at 20km/hour, and are 5cm each then how many biscuits are covered in a minute?

The ‘major English poets’ course is a two-semester requirement for a literature major, and features virtually no female, gay, ethnic minority, or gender-oriented writers at all. It instead features canonical writers like Shakespeare and Milton. The petition states the concern that “a year spent around a seminar table where the literary contributions of women, people of colour, and queer folk are absent actively harms all students, regardless of their identity”.

This is a fantastic development: it is incredibly encouraging to know fellow students across the world are making an active effort to ensure historically marginalised voices are heard today. More than that, it is wonderful they see it as harmful not to be confronted with them. But, in attempting to privilege the underprivileged, they run the risk of dismissing canonical literature altogether. That’s something they must not do.

Which, if true, would most weaken the argument above?

Adapted From www.independent.co.uk

A pen has on average enough ink for 500m of writing in it. If one letter measures 0.4 of a centimetre, and words are spaced at 0.5cm, how many four letter words can one pen write?

You have 254 blocks that are cubes, all the same size. What is the minimum numberyou will need to remove to make a perfect cube with no blocks leftover?

Dr Seymour asks who we want to teach our children. Not easy to answer. We all know people who have little formal education but who are “natural” teachers. I was “taught” at a grammar school in the 50s by several Oxbridge graduates. They doubtless had a wealth of knowledge, but having it in one’s head doesn’t automatically mean that it will transfer itself to the minds of teenagers. Many current members of the government are Oxbridge graduates – would you fancy any of them as teachers for your children? A good, effective teacher above all needs enthusiasm and some classroom skills. Perhaps a little knowledge helps too.

Which, if true, would most strengthen the argument?

Adapted From The Guardian

A food processor’s central panel rotates 30 times per second, maximum. The blender attachment has 4 blades. If the processor is on for 70 seconds at 1/4 speed, how many cuts will it make?

Ginny has a 50cmx50cm square frame, that is 5cm deep. She has a lot of medals and rosettes that she wants to frame. Each rosette is circular, with diameter 4cm. She requires at least 2cm between each rosette, and they must be at least 1cm from the edge of the frame.

How many rosettes can she fit?

The GB rowing four had to race three times to win the Olympic gold in the 2012 Olympics. There are 6 competitors in each race. Assuming there are no byes, and the fastest times reach the next round, how many people were competing to start with?

My bedroom floor is a 5x5m square. 10% of the floor area is covered with a wardrobe, 25% with a bed and 20% with a desk. What area of the floor remains uncovered?

Imposter Syndrome is a term coined in 1978 by psychologists, Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes, that refers to the psychological phenomenon, common among high achievers, which is characterised by intense feelings of intellectual fraudulence.

Although not a new concept, recent studies commissioned by career development agency Amazing If, found a third of millennials suffer from “Imposter Syndrome” at work, emphasising a severe lack of confidence affecting young people in the UK.

Research shows that imposter syndrome is characterised by feelings of anxiety. It’s the feeling that you’ve bluffed your way into your situation, that you are not as talented as everyone believes, that you don’t deserve the achievements you have accomplished, that your success was down to luck and that soon, your lack of ability is going to be exposed.

Which, if true, would most strengthen the argument above?

Adapted From www.independent.co.uk.

Cereal just isn’t a good fit for breakfast any more: sales are falling because it’s not a practical choice for the stressed, the rushed or the lazy. Now, a bowl of cereal can be for tea time. Or it’s grudgingly eaten if you don’t have enough money for a plate of something more substantial – “real” food – after work. It’s the grist and ballast you fill your stomach with before payday comes. It can also be the lazy night-time meal you shake out when the hour is too late to make something better. It’s what you pick through and pretend is an acceptable snack when the cupboards are empty and the milk has run out.

What is the main conclusion of this argument?

Adapted From The Guardian

Ffion and Kate are making a gingerbread house. The roof is made of two rectangles with sides 12cm by 22cm. Circular jelly sweets of diameter 2.5 cm are placed on the roof with no 2mm gaps between them. They are all also 1mm from the edges of the roof. How many sweets are used?

A supermarket loyalty card gives you one point for every £5 that you spend in their shop, with double points for electricals. The Edwards family weekly shop costs £135. Additionally, in 2012 they bought a television for £200 and a games console for £175.

Legoland costs 120 points per person. For the Edwards family of five, how many weeks of shopping (without the electrical purchases) would they need to do to afford Legoland on points alone?

The total rent for a house is £1900/month. Rachel pays the most, pay £50/month more than Lucy. Izzy and Dot pay the same amount, £25 less than Rachel, and Lucy pays the least. How much does Dot pay per month?

A bedroom has a floor covered in tiles that are 25cm x 5cm. The bedroom is of area 5m by 4m, and 40% of the floor is covered by rugs. How many tiles are left uncovered therefore?

Apprentices under the age of 19, or in their first year of an apprenticeship, are entitled to just £3.40 an hour.

This means that, unless a young person has parents who can support them, or is able to rely on the intensely complex and uncooperative benefits system, they simply cannot afford to do an apprenticeship.

Classified neither as a worker nor a student, apprentices fall through the gaps in the social safety net. Not being workers, they are not entitled to the National Minimum Wage, and, not being students, they cannot access student loans, discounted travel, or student bank accounts.

http://student/istudents/apprenticeships-government-promises-apprentices-disadvantaged-young-people-living-minimum-wage-a7539101.html

 Which, if true, would most weaken the argument above?

Adapted From www.independent.co.uk

I would even say the belief your student years are ‘the best’ is one of the most dangerous lies around. It leads students into this train of thought: ‘I’m young and I’m at university, so I must be having a good time at all times, otherwise, there’s something wrong with me. And I can’t admit when I am not having a good time because it’s unnatural’.

Obviously this is unhelpful: it turns the student experience into a schizophrenic one in which we constantly try to put on the image of enjoying ourselves while desperately suppressing all negative feelings. Because we’re told we should be enjoying ourselves all the time, life becomes a frantic effort to stay afloat.

What is the main conclusion of the argument above?

Adapted From www.independent.co.uk

Factoring in the purchase of the electrical items as well, the family decide to trade in some of their vouchers on their weekly shopping, having saved all their vouchers from the year 2012. However, for this, 5 points= £1. Using only their points from 2012, how many weeks of shopping could they do?

If the evacuation from Dunkirk should teach us anything, it is that fellowship and pragmatism, heart and head, should be combined to form a common strength. Our politicians have not grasped this yet. The leave campaign invoked only the heart (or purported to, rather) while the remain side mainly appealed to the brain. They were pragmatic about the economic benefits of the EU, but did not emphasise the common humanity that should become stronger, not weaker, in times of toil.

What is the main conclusion of this text?

Adapted From The Guardian

The house numbers on a street are as follows: 27,3,10, 28, 4, 8, 29, 1, 30, 30, 5,—-

What should the missing number be?