Who’s Required to Take It and What of It?
For those who wish to be interviewed in Malaysia for Mathematics, there will be a compulsory maths written test a day or two after the interview instead of the TSA abovementioned. This test will be held parallel to the TSA in the same hall. Along with the interview, the maths written test will be taken into account by the admissions tutor.
Format
• Two-hour paper
• Two sections: *Section I has 10 questions and youcan answer all *Section II has 6 questions, but choose only 2
• Marks for Section I is higher than that of Section II
• Section I questions are shorter than those of Section II. There will be one mechanics question and one statistics question in each of the sections. Knowledge of Further Maths is not required in this test.
How to prepare?
Practise on some recreational maths questions (eg: prove that an integer is divisible by three if and only if the sum of its digits is a multiple of three). Working through the STEP workbook “Advanced Problems in…” will also help. Details of this workbook are available in the STEP section earlier in this booklet.