Quizzes, exams, and flashcards about Mock tests: Mock test 4, Mock test 5, Mock test 6.
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Six tests in the real format: 24 questions drawn from across the whole syllabus, with 18 correct to pass. Take these after the chapter revision, not instead of it.
The real test gives you 24 questions and 45 minutes, and you need 75% — eighteen right. That means you can afford six wrong answers and no more, which is a tighter margin than most people assume before they see it written down.
Chapter revision and a mock test answer different questions. Working through a chapter tells you which chapter is weak. A mock test tells you whether you would pass today, and it tells you that under the only conditions that count: every part of the syllabus mixed together, with no warning about which chapter each question comes from.
That mixing is the whole difficulty. It is quite possible to score well on the history questions when you know they are history questions, and to lose the same facts when a date from 1066 arrives between a question about the Speaker of the House of Commons and one about St David's Day.
Mock tests 1 to 3 each take three questions from each of eight chapter sets in this track — the broad set for values, three for history, two for society and two for government — — twenty-four in total, proportional to the syllabus by construction rather than by guesswork, and spread through each chapter rather than clustered at its start.
No question appears in two of the first three, so the tests can be taken one after another without repetition. The questions themselves are the same ones as in the chapter materials, which means a mock is a rehearsal rather than new content, and a mock taken straight after the chapter materials partly measures whether you remember those exact questions. For an honest score, leave a few days between the chapter materials and a mock.
Mock tests 4 to 6 are built differently. Their questions are written fresh rather than taken from the chapter sets or the first three mocks — a few ask about the same facts as the newer chapter sets — and each test still ranges over every part of the syllabus. They also bring in two kinds of question the first three do not use: 'choose two', where the mark needs both correct options and nothing else, and 'which statement is true', where three of the four statements are false, usually because they pair two real facts wrongly. Because the questions are unseen, these three give the more honest score and can be taken straight after the chapter revision.
Under 18 and you would not pass today. At 18 to 20 you would pass, but with little room, and the same mark on a different selection of questions could easily fall short. Comfortably above that and the remaining work is keeping it warm until the test date.
If you fail a mock, the useful information is not the score but which questions went wrong — the explanations say where each wrong option actually belongs, and going back to that chapter is worth more than sitting another mock straight away.
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