For many people, their school days were the best time of their lives. That is of course, until the age of 15 came around and the dreaded GSCE exams loomed over them.
And while many put in the hard work over their five year comprehensive stretch, reaping the rewards of revision and sleepless nights spent studying, others decided to ditch their textbooks and cut classes - paying the price with their final grades.
We can all agree that the exams themselves seemed nigh on impossible at the time, but just how hard do they shape up today, after years outside of formal education?
Read more: How well do you know the UK? Test your knowledge with our 50-question bumper quiz
As with each Sunday, it's Aaron Morris here with Chronicle Live - proud to present you with our weekly quiz. This week, we will be sitting a GCSE-standard test, sourcing 50 examination level questions from all of the standard subjects.
From science, to maths, history to music - this bumper quiz will have the lot. So please, take your seats, no talking and turn your phones off as you prepare to resit your GCSEs.
As always, the answers to these questions are available at the bottom of the quiz itself - but no peaking until you've had a fair and honest crack at it without Googling or cheating.
Maths:
1) What is the value of the digit 4 in 234,091?
2) What is 720 millimetres in centimetres?
3) Jack catches the train from Newcastle to London at 08.19am. He arrives at his destination at 1.32pm. How long did Jack travel for?
4) 48 children and 17 adults visited a cinema. How many more children than adults were there?
5) Clancy will pay income tax if he earns more than £12,500 in a year. After 7 months, he has earned a total of £6,400 and for the rest of the year he will earn £1,200 each month. Will Clancy pay income tax?
6) What is the name for a triangle which has three uneven sides?
7) What is 110% of 80?
8) What is the simplest form of the fraction 20/44?
9) What are the following two numbers in the sequence 3, 7, 11, 15?
10) Name any prime number between 20 and 30
Science:
1) What is the word equation for aerobic respiration?
2) What is a placebo drug in terms of clinical trials?
3) What is the PH of water?
4) Which gas forms when magnesium is mixed with hydrochloric acid?
5) Fe is the periodic symbol for which element?
6) What is the name of the centre of the atom?
7) What does it mean if a reaction is endothermic?
8) What is an independent variable in terms of an experiment?
9) What is the name of the electromagnetic wave which is used to sterilise instruments?
10) What five necessities do plants need to grow?
English grammar:
Correct the grammatical errors in the following sentences.
1) Their was only four or five people in the restaurant.
2) I am appaulled at the standards you have set.
3) We are going to the funfair weather you like it or not.
4) To be, or not to be: that is the question.
5) How many dogs does Sally have!
Which is the correct spelling of the following words?
6) Publically or publicly?
7) Privilege or priveledge?
8) Government or goverment?
9) Acquire of accuire?
10) Mispell or misspell?
Geography:
1) A megacity is a city with at least how many residents?
2) Outline one advantage of recycling waste according to the EPA?
3) Name the three classifications of rock.
4) Which of the following doesn't contribute to one's carbon footprint? Driving, using a mobile phone, taking a trip abroad, growing.
5) How are earthquakes commonly caused?
6) What does UNFCCC stand for?
7) What are the five major types of biome?
8) Which of the following is NOT a type of river erosion? Hydraulic, percolation, solution
9) What is the name of the largest desert on Earth?
10) What weather does a black ball signify on a synoptic chart?
History:
1) Who was the Communist leader of East Germany who built the Berlin Wall?
2) Who invaded Cuba in the Bay of Pigs?
3) When did Great Britain declare world war one against Germany?
4) In which country was the 1815 Battle of Waterloo?
5) During the French Revolution, why was King Louis XVI executed?
6) What was Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun's original name?
7) Illegal speakeasy's became widespread in the United States during which time period?
8) Who was King Henry VIII's final wife?
9) In which city did the Bloody Sunday demonstration take place?
10) Which English disaster is said to have potentially aided killing off the bubonic plague?
Maths answers:
1) Four thousand (4,000)
2) 72 centimetres
3) 5 hours and 13 minutes
4) 31 more children than adults
5) No as Clancy will only earn £12,400 in total - 100 short of the bracket
6) A scalene triangle
7) 88
8) 5/11
9) 19 and 23
10) 23 and 29
Science answers:
1) G lucose + Oxygen → Carbon Dioxide + Water (+ Energy Released)
2) A fake drug which has no effect on its consumer
3) 7
4) Hydrogen
5) Iron
6) The Nucleus
7) It is characterized by or formed with absorption of heat
8) A variable whose variation does not depend on that of another
9) Gamma rays
10) Sunlight, temperature, moisture, air, and nutrients
English answers:
1) There was only four or five people in the restaurant.
2) I am appalled at the standards you have set.
3) We are going to the fun fair whether you like it or not.
4) To be, or not to be, that is the question.
5) How many dogs does Sally have?
6) Publicly
7) Privilege
8) Government
9) Acquire
10) Misspell
Geography answers:
1) 10 million
2) It r educes the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators, conserves natural resources such as timber, water and minerals, increases economic security by tapping a domestic source of materials, prevents pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw material, saves energy
3) Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
4) Growing
5) By tectonic plates subducting, spreading, slipping or colliding
6) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
7) Aquatic, Desert, Forest, Grassland, Tundra
8) Percolation
9) The Sahara
10) Rain
History answers:
1) Walter Ulbricht
2) Cuban exiles and Fidel Castro
3) August 4th, 1914
4) Belgium
5) He was convicted of treason
6) Tutankhaten
7) The 1920 prohibition
8) Catherine Parr
9) Londonderry
10) The Great Fire of London
How did you do this time round? Let us know in the comments section.
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