Paper at a glance
This is a free TutorZone English practice paper for Hong Kong Primary 5. It has 22 questions, lasts 50 minutes and carries 100 marks. Questions and answers are in English, the language of the subject.
What this paper covers
The reading passage follows a tuck shop that made 480 sandwiches, sold three-eighths (180) in the morning and 200 more in the afternoon, 380 in total, leaving 100 for a food bank; at $12 each the takings were $4,560, and 380 out of 480 is 19/24. The writing tasks are a 60-word account of a school trip and three present-tense sentences about helping at home.
| Section |
Marks |
| Grammar and Usage |
30 |
| Reading Comprehension |
40 |
| Writing |
30 |
| Total |
100 |
Skills practised
Tenses and connectives, fractions and money in context, guided writing. Every answer comes with marking notes, so a parent can mark the paper the way a class teacher would.
How to use the paper
- Sit the paper in one go, timed at 50 minutes, without a dictionary.
- Mark it with the answer PDF and write the lost marks beside each question.
- Redo only the questions that lost marks, one week later.
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Question paper (PDF) · Answers and marking notes (PDF)
The questions in this paper
- If it ______ (rain) tomorrow, we will stay at home.
- She has lived in Tai Po ______ 2019.
- The boy ______ won the race is my cousin.
- There is ______ water in this bottle than in that one. (little)
- They ______ (build) the new playground last year.
- You ______ (must / must not) run in the corridor; it is dangerous.
- My sister enjoys ______ (draw) cartoons.
- This is the ______ (good) film I have ever seen.
- We have ______ (be) to Ocean Park three times.
- The keys ______ (be) on the desk a moment ago.
- How many sandwiches did the tuck shop make?
- How many sandwiches were sold in the morning?
- How many sandwiches were sold in the afternoon?
- How many sandwiches were sold altogether?
- How many sandwiches were not sold?
- How much money did the tuck shop take?
- What fraction of the sandwiches was sold altogether?
- What happened to the sandwiches that were not sold?
- At what time did the tuck shop close?
- Why does the tuck shop sell fruit every day?
- Write about 60 words about a school trip you enjoyed. Say where you went, what you did there and why you enjoyed it.
- Write three sentences about how you help at home. Use the simple present tense.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a past paper? No. Every question and passage is original; the format follows local primary school practice.
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