GCSE Results Day 2024 ‘impossible’ quiz – can you do it?
GCSE Results Day falls on Thursday (August 22) this year.
The historic day for millions of students could spark plenty of joy, or other emotions, depending on the outcome.
But pupils grabbing their results can then see what the future holds for them next, whether it’s college, sixth form or getting a job in the adult world.
Now for most of us, sitting our GCSEs would have been a very long time ago. So do you think you’ve still got it?
TikTok user @mmerevise, who boasts 22,000 followers, asked: “Are you smarter than a Level 9 GCSE Maths Student?” He then revealed an “impossible” GCSE quiz.
In the two-minute long clip, the user shared 10 questions to see if you’ve got what it takes. Students should be able to answer them, but can you?
Here are the questions below, but just remember in the video the answers are given straight away…
- What is 9+2×4?
- What is 3,496 rounded to three significant figures?
- If x=k/y, then what type of proportion links x and y?
- Which diagram should Chloe draw to help her work out probability?
- Which two columns do you need to add to a table in order to estimate the mean?
- What is sin (60)?
- If all the corners of a four-sided shape touch a circle, is it known as what?
- There are 100 centimetres in 1 metre, but how many centimetres squared are in one metre squared?
- X squared plus y squared equals 16 is the equation of the graph of what shape?
- The term under the square root in the quadratic formula is b squared minus what?
So how well do you think you did? If you’re stumped, don’t worry we’ve got the answers below for you…
- 17
- 3.50
- Inverse Proportion
- Tree diagram
- Midpoint & Midpoint X Frequency
- Root 3 over 2
- Cyclical Quadrilateral
- 10,000cm
- Circle
- B squared – 4ac
Since the video was shared, it scooped 670 likes and dozens of comments. One person said: “I got 6 out of 10,” while another added: “7.10.”
Meanwhile other users thought it was too easy. Someone posted: “10/10.” Then another commented: “This is easy stuff, not grade 9.”
While a third joked: “Me being a uni student answering all of this competitively.”
