PRIMARY 3 (GRADE 3) 2022 CONTEST PAPER
NAME: Index Number:
SCHOOL:
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Please DO NOT OPEN the contest booklet until the Proctor has given permission to
start
2. TIME: 1 hour 30 minutes.
3. There are 25 questions:
Section A: Questions 1 to 15 score 2 points each, no points are deducted for an
unanswered question and 1 point is deducted for the wrong answer.
Section B: Questions 16 to 25 score 4 points each, no points are deducted for an
unanswered or wrong answer.
4. Shade your answers neatly using a 2B lead pencil in the Answer Entry Sheet.
5. PROCTORING: No one may help any student in any way during the contest.
6. No electronic devices capable of storing and displaying visual information are allowed
during the course of the exam.
7. Strictly No Calculators are allowed into the exam.
8. All students must fill and shade their Name, School and Index Number in the
Answer Entry Sheet and Contest booklet.
9. MINIMUM TIME: Students must stay in the exam hall for at least 1 hour.
10. A student must show detailed working and transfer answers to the Answer Entry
Sheet.
11. No exam papers and written notes can be taken out by any contestant.
Rough Working
SASMO 2022, Primary 3 (Grade 3) Contest
Section A (Correct answer – 2 points| No answer – 0 points| Incorrect answer – minus 1 point)
Question 1
What is the value of the following sum?
99 + 97 + 95 + 96 + 98
A. 490
B. 485
C. 484
D. 480
E. None of the above
Question 2
Find the correct shadow of the picture below.
A. B. C.
D. E.
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Question 3
Study the picture below. Find the difference in length (in cm) between the stapler
and the eraser.
A. 14 cm
B. 8 cm
C. 7 cm
D. 6 cm
E. None of the above
Question 4
Study the pattern and find the sum of the numbers in the 10th column.
2 6 4 12 6 18 …
3 3 9 5 15 7 …
A. 41
B. 40
C. 30
D. 11
E. None of the above
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Question 5
Which one of the following options is a missing piece of the dog’s kennel?
A. B. C.
D. E.
Question 6
The sum of 5 consecutive whole numbers is 110. What is the largest odd number
among the 5 numbers?
A. 21
B. 22
C. 23
D. 24
E. None of the above
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Question 7
In the square below, points 𝐸 and 𝐹 are the midpoints of 𝐴𝐵 and 𝐴𝐷, respectively. If
the length of the square is 4 cm, find the area (in cm2) of the shaded region.
A E B
D C
A. 16 cm2
B. 8 cm2
C. 6 cm2
D. 4 cm2
E. None of the above
Question 8
An ant is at one vertex of a cube and can only walk along the edges of the cube. It
cannot walk along any edge more than once. If the length of the cube is 4 cm, what
is the greatest distance (in cm) that the ant can walk before it cannot continue?
A. 36 cm
B. 32 cm
C. 48 cm
D. 4 cm
E. None of the above
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Question 9
Study the picture below.
Which of the following relationships is correct?
A. is lighter than
B. is the heaviest
C. is the heaviest and is the lightest
D. is heavier than
E. None of the above
Question 10
If the four-digit number 147B is divisible by 3, how many possible values are there
for the digit B?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. None of the above
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Question 11
Mother came home and found that one of her children had eaten the whole cake she
put in the fridge. She asked each of her children who did it, and their responses are
shown below.
Austin: Carlos ate the cake.
Benny: Austin ate the cake.
Carlos: Benny is lying.
Daniela: It was not Carlos who ate the cake.
Ella: I did not eat the cake.
If only two of the children were telling the truth, who ate the cake?
A. Austin
B. Benny
C. Carlos
D. Daniela
E. Ella
Question 12
The desks in a Primary 3 classroom are arranged in straight rows. Each row has the
same number of desks. Greggory sits at the desk that is in the fourth row from the
front and back. He sits at the centre of his row and there are 5 desks to his left.
How many desks are in the classroom?
A. 63
B. 99
C. 77
D. 81
E. None of the above
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Question 13
Observe the following pattern. What is the missing number?
35 56 15 ?
6 4 6 7 2 4 4 7
A. 28
B. 32
C. 40
D. 35
E. None of the above
Question 14
The year 2022 is an interesting year because it contains only digits 2 and 0. How
many years later will be the next interesting year?
A. 200
B. 198
C. 180
D. 178
E. None of the above
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Question 15
Four boys each prepared 1 gift for a party. How many ways can these 4 gifts be
distributed among the 4 kids so that no one receives his own gift?
A. 1
B. 6
C. 9
D. 12
E. None of the above
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Section B (Correct answer – 4 points| Incorrect or No answer – 0 points)
When an answer is a 1-digit number, shade “0” for the tens, hundreds and thousands place.
Example: if the answer is 7, then shade 0007
When an answer is a 2-digit number, shade “0” for the hundreds and thousands place.
Example: if the answer is 23, then shade 0023
When an answer is a 3-digit number, shade “0” for the thousands place.
Example: if the answer is 785, then shade 0785
When an answer is a 4-digit number, shade as it is.
Example: if the answer is 4196, then shade 4196
Question 16
The picture graph below shows the number of pencils that Amelia, Stacy, Sophia and
Olivia have. Altogether, they have 85 pencils. How many more pencils does Sophia
have than Stacy?
Amelia
Stacy
Sophia
Olivia
Each stands for the same number of pencils.
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Question 17
How many triangles are there in the figure below?
Question 18
How many even multiples of 5 are there between 1 and 201?
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Question 19
What is the next number in the pattern below?
1, 5, 13, 25, 41, …
Question 20
From the numbers 1 to 9, select 6 different numbers and place them in the squares.
What is the largest result you can get?
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Question 21
It is given that
What does stand for?
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Question 22
A toy cost twice as much as 1 notebook. Betty bought 3 such toys and 3 such
notebooks for $72. What was the cost (in $) of 1 toy?
Question 23
Fifty students numbered from 1 to 50 were asked to line up in a straight line. The
first student in the line was asked to leave, the second student remained. The third
student was asked to leave the line, the fourth student remained and so forth. This
process was then repeated until there was only one student left in the line. What
was the number of the only student left in the line?
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Question 24
How many whole numbers smaller than 300 can be formed with the digits 2, 5, 1 or
3 if each of the digits can only be used at most once in any number?
Question 25
In the following, all the different letters stand for different digits. What is the value
of the 4-digit number CDEC?
C D E C
- B A B
A C A
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