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- Throughout history, gold has been revered and used for expensive jewellery and ornamentation. But in the future, it will be prized for its practical uses rather than for its aesthetic appeal. It wasn't until early in the last century that gold's electrical conductivity properties were discovered. Solid state…TSA 2022 · Question 1 · Main Conclusion · Save
- A quiz consists of 7 rounds, each of which contains 20 questions. Each question is worth one point. At the end of the quiz, but before any of the answers or scores are revealed, each team is allowed to select one of the rounds and the score for that round is tripled. In addition, the scores for the rounds immediately…TSA 2022 · Question 2 · Logic · Save
- Whether known as the high street, main street, or market square, central shopping districts in many towns throughout the world are in danger of disappearing. The decline in some downtown shopping areas began decades ago because of various social and economic trends, including an increase in the number of women working…TSA 2022 · Question 3 · Assumption · Save
- I have always said that owners of expensive cars are less considerate drivers, and now a study has proved me right. The study showed that they are less likely to stop at a pedestrian crossing to allow someone to cross the road than drivers of less expensive cars – in fact, their likelihood to do so decreased by about…TSA 2022 · Question 4 · Identify Flaws · Save
- You only win an election if you gain a majority of votes. You must have gained a majority of votes because you were named the winner in the election.TSA 2022 · Question 5 · Parallel Reasoning · Save
- Rob has two different mixtures of apple juice and orange juice. Rob wants to use these two mixtures to make 6 litres of a juice mixture which is 50% apple juice and 50% orange juice.TSA 2022 · Question 6 · Logic · Save
- The extension numbers needed to contact eight different departments in a university depend on whether the caller is calling as a student, parent, lecturer, journalist or researcher. The appropriate numbers are shown below. Fran is a lecturer and regularly needs to contact all of the departments in the university.TSA 2022 · Question 7 · Logic · Save
- Over the past decade the popularity of coffee has soared in the United Kingdom. As a result, the number of coffee shops across the UK has risen. The table below shows a breakdown of the number of chain and independent coffee shops in East London between 2013 and 2019.TSA 2022 · Question 8 · Best Fit · Save
- Bicycle owners have a duty to have their bicycles maintained properly. This is to ensure the safety both of the rider and of other road users. If an injury is caused to another person as a result of a failure to maintain a bicycle properly, then the injured person should be entitled to compensation from the owner of…TSA 2022 · Question 9 · Principle · Save
- Despite ranking top of gender equality lists, Sweden is like practically every other country in terms of having an unequal division of labour for unpaid housework. Perpetuating stereotypes about who should be responsible for cleaning tasks, women still perform more domestic chores than their male partners. To address…TSA 2022 · Question 10 · Weakening Arguments · Save
- People are attracted to cities because of the job opportunities that they bring. At the same time, house prices tend to push people away from urban centres. The draw of healthy living and green environments similarly pulls people towards less urban environments, further from city centres. The limiting factor in…TSA 2022 · Question 11 · Drawing Conclusions · Save
- The shampoo that I normally buy costs £1.96 for a 500ml bottle and always lasts for 40 days. Last month I decided to try a new brand that is 36p cheaper and contains 550 ml. However, because of the amount that I have had to use to wash my hair properly, it has run out after only 25 days.TSA 2022 · Question 12 · Logic · Save
- Kate and Tek are choosing a cottage to rent for their family holiday. They have searched online and reduced their choice to five cottages. The facilities offered by these cottages are shown in the following table. Ideally, Kate and Tek would like a cottage with at least three bedrooms, a large garden, wifi, parking,…TSA 2022 · Question 13 · Logic · Save
- Alex and Anita play a game where they need to form words from letters. The value of each letter is a whole number of points (which can be 0). Alex and Anita earn points by adding together the value of the letters in the words they form. The value of the last three words they formed is shown in the table below. Anita…TSA 2022 · Question 14 · Logic · Save
- There is no denying the unwanted consequences of car emissions, burning of fossil fuels, chemical effluent, and other pollutants. Their negative effects include the increasing incidence of respiratory, skin, and heart conditions. But 'environments' consist of more than just the elements of air, earth, and water.…TSA 2022 · Question 15 · Main Conclusion · Save
- The past couple of decades have been fairly tricky for many countries due to economic challenges and political and social uncertainties. The UK has certainly been amongst such countries. But life there is getting better, according to the World Happiness Report, and indeed the latest findings of this annual review are…TSA 2022 · Question 16 · Assumption · Save
- People complain about the fact that newspapers are often full of recycled articles about celebrity gossip, but they forget that real news costs money – investigative reporters need to go out into the world and unearth new information. The trouble is, those who complain are also unprepared to pay to read newspapers,…TSA 2022 · Question 17 · Principle · Save
- Sean is taking his car to Sunny Island. He lives 38 miles away from the mainland terminal where the seaport and airport are based. He has researched the travel costs and come up with two possible options. The ferry ticket (car and passenger) is 50 and the seaport company will…TSA 2022 · Question 18 · Logic · Save
- A youth club is open six evenings every week. There are nine volunteers who run the club. Each evening three of the volunteers are on duty. When the rota is drawn up for any week, the following conditions must be met as seen below. Next week's rota has just been published, as shown below. Fay wants to swap her Tuesday…TSA 2022 · Question 19 · Logic · Save
- Students studying geography at college were tested at the start of the year and at the end of the year. Their marks are shown in the following table.TSA 2022 · Question 20 · Logic · Save
- Some people have such good natural stamina that they can run a marathon with no training. John was able to run a marathon on Saturday. It is possible he did no training in preparation.TSA 2022 · Question 21 · Parallel Reasoning · Save
- In a recent UK news broadcast, a white reporter appeared to mistake a Labour Member of Parliament (MP), who is Black, for another MP who is also Black. This shows the dangers of a lack of diversity in workplaces. It is not the first time that such a mistake has occurred: a week earlier the same television channel had…TSA 2022 · Question 22 · Assumption · Save
- Recent figures issued by the UK Department of Education have revealed that the proportion of students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who have reached the expected level of educational achievement by the time they leave secondary school is lower than that of the population as a whole. The…TSA 2022 · Question 23 · Weakening Arguments · Save
- Iman and Maya ran a 100 metre race. Iman started 2 seconds after Maya and finished 3 seconds before her. If each girl ran at a constant speed throughout the race, and Iman's speed was 25% faster than Maya's, for how many seconds did Iman run?TSA 2022 · Question 24 · Rates · Save
- Five popular makes of fishcake are shown in the table below, with comparisons of their ingredients, the weight of each type and the cost for a pack of two. Ester wants to buy the fishcakes that contain the greatest amount of fish per pound spent.TSA 2022 · Question 25 · Logic · Save
- The following chart shows the average salary of politicians in selected countries in absolute terms on the left (in thousands of dollars) and as a multiple of their country’s gross domestic product (GDP) per person on the right.TSA 2022 · Question 26 · Logic · Save
- Trains in the UK are operated by private companies approved by the government and awarded a franchise for which they must meet certain standards, for example on punctuality. SuperRail, which operates the trains in one part of the country, has a poor record to date and has been warned that if it again exceeds the…TSA 2022 · Question 27 · Identify Flaws · Save
- If you arrive late for work, you will definitely get fired. You lost your last job so you must have arrived late for work.TSA 2022 · Question 28 · Parallel Reasoning · Save
- 'Progressive' teaching methods – used in schools for the last 40 or 50 years – put an emphasis on collaborative ways of learning. It is time to reconsider the idea that this constitutes best practice in the classroom. Collaborative learning appeals to those with extrovert personalities, but much less so to introverts.…TSA 2022 · Question 29 · Main Conclusion · Save
- In a prize draw, tickets are printed with 3-digit numbers from 001 to 999. Contestants pay to take a ticket at random. A major prize is awarded for all tickets where the product of the 3 digits on the ticket drawn is 8 and a minor prize is awarded when the product is 12. For example 143 wins a minor prize because 1 ×…TSA 2022 · Question 30 · Optimisation · Save
- The table shows the cost of hot drinks in a local café. Belle bought a number of hot drinks, including at least one of each tea, coffee and chocolate. She was charged £32.00.TSA 2022 · Question 31 · Optimisation · Save
- I have a wooden cube with edges that are 5 cm long. I paint it in the following way:TSA 2022 · Question 32 · Logic · Save
- The UK has one of the world's highest levels of regional inequality, according to a recent report. Of the 30 nations studied, only 2 had higher levels of inequality. The main disparity is between those living in the poorer north and the wealthier south of the country. To address this, the government has been working…TSA 2022 · Question 33 · Assumption · Save
- A right is not an excuse. The fact that you have a right to do something cannot count as justification for doing it. I may have a right to walk along behind someone in the street, mimicking their walk. Does that mean I ought to go around doing this? In fact, when deciding how to act, it isn't really rights we should…TSA 2022 · Question 34 · Principle · Save
- It is no surprise to hear that we are more likely to help someone we like than someone we don't. But another factor that influences our behaviour towards others is a sense of reciprocity – the sense that you ought to do something good for someone if they have done something good for you. Psychologists have measured…TSA 2022 · Question 35 · Drawing Conclusions · Save
- Grandma has spent £60 on five books which she is intending to give to her three grandchildren, Miya, Harriet and Mehran. She is going to give the books in a way that relates the cost to the time they normally spend reading (i.e. spend the most on the child who reads the most). Miya reads for an hour a day. Harriet…TSA 2022 · Question 36 · Logic · Save
- In a ball game points are accumulated by different combinations of four winning shots called a chop, a creamer, a glink and a yip. Playing the game for the first time, the only knowledge I have about the scoring system is that a chop is worth one point more than a creamer, and a creamer is worth twice as many points…TSA 2022 · Question 37 · Combinations · Save
- At the beginning of the day, a showroom had 32 vehicles for sale. The vehicles were advertised in five categories: hatchback, saloon, utility, estate car and people carrier. By the end of the day, 24 vehicles had been sold. The first chart shows a comparison of the numbers of vehicles in each category in the showroom…TSA 2022 · Question 38 · Logic · Save
- If someone tries to rescue someone from a burning roof, slips, drops them, and they die, we don't class them as a murderer. This is because we believe that judgements should be based on the intention behind an action, not the outcome. Whether or not we like to admit it, however, our moral judgements are sometimes…TSA 2022 · Question 39 · Main Conclusion · Save
- Should we be worried about Artificial Intelligence (AI)? On the one hand, there are big names that have expressed major concern. Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking have all argued that AI poses the single biggest threat to mankind's existence. At the same time there are people such as Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook…TSA 2022 · Question 40 · Identify Flaws · Save
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