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For centuries the Netherlands has battled with the dangers of water as most of the country lies below sea level. In 1953, nearly two thousand people were killed by flooding, a disaster on such a scale that it changed everything. Since then Dutch governments have consistently made flood prevention infrastructure a…BMAT 2022 · Question 1 · Main Conclusion · Save
Sarah drives to work each morning. On the way she passes through a busy junction with a set of traffic lights. One morning she stops behind a line of traffic just as the lights go red. She can see 14 cars between her and the red light. The red (stop) light will remain on for 42 seconds. The green (go) light will come…BMAT 2022 · Question 2 · Logic · Save
Yana only works in the restaurant in the evening if Saffiya is ill. Saffiya is not ill today, so Yana will not be working in the restaurant this evening.BMAT 2022 · Question 3 · Parallel Reasoning · Save
Government legislation has proved very effective in reducing emissions from car exhausts. But exhausts are not the only source of air pollution linked to traffic. A recent study showed that particles from brakes, tyres and road surfaces actually made up about two thirds of all dangerous particulate matter from road…BMAT 2022 · Question 4 · Assumption · Save
In many places, it is becoming increasingly popular to keep a hive of honey bees at home. This growth in hobby beekeeping is due in large part to public awareness of the environmental threats facing honey bees. The equally serious threats facing other species of bees and other insect pollinators are less widely…BMAT 2022 · Question 5 · Drawing Conclusions · Save
Julia has a job interview next week. To get there she will walk to the train station, take a train to Newtown and then get a taxi to her destination. Trains leave the station every half hour, starting at 07:00 and take 60 minutes to reach Newtown. It will take Julia 15 minutes to walk from her home to the train…BMAT 2022 · Question 6 · Logic · Save
A café owner allows customers to create smoothies, by mixing various combinations of the three flavours: raspberry, blueberry and mango. The most popular smoothies consist of the following combinations:BMAT 2022 · Question 7 · Ratio/Proportion/Percentage · Save
I play a game by rolling two dice. Both of my dice are quite old, and some of the dots have rubbed off. But when they were new, they were both conventional six-sided dice i.e. opposite faces add up to 7. The result of my roll is as follows:BMAT 2022 · Question 8 · Logic · Save
These days, it is hard to escape the message that getting enough sleep is critical for the maintenance of mental and physical health. Too much of a good thing can be bad, however. When one examines the medical histories of people with chronic health conditions, a striking trend emerges. Those patients who sleep the…BMAT 2022 · Question 9 · Identify Flaws · Save
Of all the changes shaping healthcare, the public information revolution is perhaps the most promising. The rise of the internet means that never before has so much health information been available to so many people. Social attitudes have changed so that more people are taking greater responsibility for their health…BMAT 2022 · Question 10 · Weakening Arguments · Save
Despite a decades-old law requiring equal pay for equal work, pay discrimination against women remains widespread in the UK. The disparity is especially pronounced at senior levels, where male executives in sectors from business to academia to the media often earn significantly more than their female colleagues…BMAT 2022 · Question 11 · Principle · Save
In preparation for a shopping trip with her mother, Maisy is counting the coins from her money box. She sorts the coins into piles of £1 coins, 50p coins, 10p coins, 5p coins and 2p coins. She has two or more coins in each of the five piles, and finds that the total value of all of these coins is £5.75.BMAT 2022 · Question 12 · Logic · Save
The table shows the prices of different packs of toy animals. Alice wants to buy some toy animals for her zoo.BMAT 2022 · Question 13 · Logic · Save
The charts below show the number of customers served at a till in each hour while a store was open yesterday and the average amount spent by each of those customers during that hour.BMAT 2022 · Question 14 · Rates · Save
The field of ‘brain training’ – and the excitement surrounding it – is growing rapidly. There is much promise in the idea that training people via memory games and similar exercises can improve overall cognitive function. But this promise has yet to be truly substantiated by research conducted so far. The most…BMAT 2022 · Question 15 · Main Conclusion · Save
Everyone knows that the UK National Health Service (NHS) is severely overstretched. The problem is made worse by inappropriate use of Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments. Data from a new study shows young adults are bypassing their family doctor and heading straight to busy A&E departments, not because their…BMAT 2022 · Question 16 · Drawing Conclusions · Save
The UK Meteorological Office is set to spend £1.2 billion on a world-leading supercomputer to improve their weather predictions. The installation will need a massive supply of electricity, so a European country with low-cost geothermal or hydropower sources of energy may be chosen as its location. The project will be…BMAT 2022 · Question 17 · Assumption · Save
A concert venue holds 14 000 people. There are three types of ticket: standing, seated, and VIP. 60% are standing tickets, 30% are seated tickets, and the remainder are VIP tickets. The charges are normally £20 for standing tickets, £30 for seated tickets and £50 for VIP tickets. At present, the seated area is…BMAT 2022 · Question 18 · Rates · Save
There were 60 episodes of my favourite TV show. After it finished, 20 DVDs were released, each containing 3 episodes. DVD 1 contained episodes 1, 2 and 3, DVD 2 contained episodes 4, 5 and 6, etc. I bought all 20 DVDs, but I have since lost DVDs 7, 16 and 19. The collection has recently been reissued, this time as 12…BMAT 2022 · Question 19 · Logic · Save
The numbers of sales made by each of the employees of a company for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are shown in the bar chart below.BMAT 2022 · Question 20 · Logic · Save
The case for veganism as a solution to the world’s environmental concerns is problematic. The synergy between livestock and crop production farming fosters biologically rich, fertile soils through grazing and application of farmyard manure, and reduces the need for agrichemicals to be used on croplands. Globally,…BMAT 2022 · Question 21 · Strengthening Arguments · Save
Social scientists are interested in the factors that influence human behaviour. As such, they look at things like criminal or violent or antisocial actions and try to explain what the factors were that led the person to behave that way. Such analysis is invariably enlightening. Yet a danger soon arises, in that the…BMAT 2022 · Question 22 · Assumption · Save
The benefits that they bring in reducing emissions have made them symbols of environmental friendliness, but electric cars are making environments increasingly unfriendly to pedestrians. The fact that they make considerably less noise increases the chance that pedestrians will step out into the road in front of them.…BMAT 2022 · Question 23 · Assumption · Save
Exactly 27 identical little cubes can be put together to make one larger solid cube with a volume of 216 cubic centimetres.BMAT 2022 · Question 24 · Spatial · Save
A village hall runs a small lending library which opens only on Saturdays. There are 80 members, each of whom may borrow up to four books at a time, which they may keep for three weeks. Members never overrun the three week time limit. After the annual stock-take, for which all books were returned, the library has 2000…BMAT 2022 · Question 25 · Optimisation · Save
A cube with painted triangles on some of the corners of its faces is shown below in two different positions.BMAT 2022 · Question 26 · Spatial · Save
Are you a young person thinking of starting your own business, inspired by stories of youthful yet highly successful entrepreneurs? If so, you might want to consider waiting until you are older. A recent study found the mean age of the entrepreneurs behind the 1000 fastest growing new ventures to be 45 years. This is…BMAT 2022 · Question 27 · Weakening Arguments · Save
Karl is racing against Frank. The race is run over a distance of 800 m. In the first race, Karl allows Frank to start 5 seconds before him, but still completes the race 3 seconds before Frank. In the second race, they start to run at the same time, but Karl allows Frank to start 100 m ahead of him on the track, so…BMAT 2022 · Question 28 · Logic · Save
It’s often said you shouldn’t treat people simply as statistics, but instead as individuals, each with their own complex feelings and concerns. But perhaps treating people purely statistically is – on a large scale – the most moral way to treat them. In treating people as statistics, you automatically give everyone’s…BMAT 2022 · Question 29 · Main Conclusion · Save
Rainbows School has 18 classrooms. Each room will be painted in one of the seven colours of the rainbow. For each of the seven colours, there will be at least two rooms painted in that colour. Painting each room will require 1 tin of paint. The cost of a tin of paint varies according to the colour, as shown in the…BMAT 2022 · Question 30 · Optimisation · Save
The vehicle must pass all of the tests in order to receive its annual safety certificate. There is one test left and all of the tests so far have been passed, so if the final test is passed then a safety certificate will be issued.BMAT 2022 · Question 31 · Parallel Reasoning · Save
The drawing below shows five blocks. Some of the blocks can be fitted together.BMAT 2022 · Question 32 · Spatial · Save
Luxury cruises on very large ships have become an increasingly fashionable leisure activity, especially among retired people. However, people should not put themselves in danger unnecessarily. Some of the most popular cruises go through parts of the oceans where modern pirates are active. Passengers face a serious…BMAT 2021 · Question 1 · Drawing Conclusions · Save
In the Ahmed family, each child has at least one brother and at least two sisters.BMAT 2021 · Question 2 · Logic · Save
No matter what you say, someone, somewhere will be offended by it. It is completely outside the control of a speaker to prevent this, so there is no point in trying. If you assert your views honestly and forcefully, people who disagree will object that you are putting them down. But then if you tone it down out of…BMAT 2021 · Question 3 · Parallel Reasoning · Save
‘End-to-end encryption’ of online messaging services is here to stay, and should be welcomed with enthusiasm, not resisted. Its adoption by services such as WhatsApp has admittedly caused some alarm in government circles because of the protection it gives to criminals and terrorist groups, and the restrictions it…BMAT 2021 · Question 4 · Principle · Save
The Royal Society, Britain’s leading science organisation, has millions of pounds invested in fossil fuel companies. At the same time, it has published many doom-laden reports on the impact of human activity on the environment, and many of its members are devoted to researching climate change. It is hypocritical for…BMAT 2021 · Question 5 · Main Conclusion · Save
I have a flower bed that measures 12 metres by 8 metres. I wish to create a half metre wide path around the edge of the bed (as shown below), using square paving slabs measuring 50 cm by 50 cm.BMAT 2021 · Question 6 · Spatial · Save
Mike is on a special diet which puts a limit on his intake of fats, protein and salt per day. He has worked out his totals so far for today and must now choose a dessert which has the following specifications: • no more than 0.60 g of salt • no more than 50 g of fat • at least 5 g of protein The table gives…BMAT 2021 · Question 7 · Logic · Save
I have a chocolate shop and I analysed the sales figures of one of my products, a chocolate bar with winter spices, before and after Christmas Day (25 December). The number of bars sold on seven days is summarised in the following table. The price of the bar varied as I offered substantial discounts around Christmas…BMAT 2021 · Question 8 · Logic · Save

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