VTMO 2026 - Grade 2 - Semifinal - SET 5 - Self-study

Question 1

Which picture has an odd number of stars?

1. Picture A
2. Picture B
3. Picture C
4. Picture D
5. Picture E

Question 2

How long is the pencil, in centimetres?

1. 12 cm
2. 13 cm
3. 10 cm
4. 11 cm
5. 9 cm

Question 3

Nam lies on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and tells the truth on all other days. Today he says, “Yesterday I told the truth.” What day is today?

1. Friday
2. Saturday
3. Sunday
4. Monday
5. Tuesday

Question 4

Dũng has 47 cakes and Châu has 25 cakes. How many cakes must Dũng give Châu so that they have the same number?

1. 22
2. 11
3. 20
4. 12
5. 10

Question 5

How many flat faces does this solid have? Include the faces you cannot see.

1. 6
2. 8
3. 9
4. 10
5. 12

Question 6

Hạnh and Tùng buy the same kind of pencil. Hạnh buys 4 pencils and Tùng buys 6. Each pays with a 100-thousand-đồng note, and together they receive 120 thousand đồng in change. How many thousand đồng does Hạnh receive in change?

1. 80
2. 52
3. 48
4. 68
5. 32

Question 7

Minh is 4 kg heavier than Lâm. Nam is 3 kg heavier than Lâm. Between Minh and Nam, who is heavier, and by how many kilograms?

1. Minh is 7 kg heavier than Nam.
2. Nam is 1 kg heavier than Minh.
3. Nam is 3 kg heavier than Minh.
4. Minh is 1 kg heavier than Nam.
5. Minh weighs 4 kg.

Question 8

Việt and Nam use two identical numbered sheets to cut out the shaded letters T and E shown below. The numbers in T total 18, and the numbers in E total 38. What is $A+B$?

1. 0
2. 2
3. 3
4. 7
5. 10

Question 9

In which order should Pi place the cards so that their numbers go from smallest to largest?

1. PQRS
2. SQPR
3. SQRP
4. RPQS
5. RQPS

Question 10

Four black boxes and four white boxes are arranged as shown. In each move, An swaps the positions of any two boxes. What is the fewest number of moves needed to make the colours alternate?

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5

Question 11

Nam writes all the numbers from 1 to 2024 consecutively, with no spaces:

$12345678910111213\ldots 20232024$

At how many positions does the sequence 999 appear?

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5

Question 12

Thanh lives on floor 6. There are equally many steps between neighboring floors. He climbs 22 steps from floor 2 to floor 4. How many steps does he climb from floor 1 to floor 6?

1. 66
2. 55
3. 44
4. 33
5. 77

Question 13

The heart operation works like this: $8\heartsuit5=8\times5+8+5=53$. What is $9\heartsuit3$?

1. 36
2. 39
3. 42
4. 45
5. 48

Question 14

How many triangles are in the figure?

1. 6
2. 8
3. 9
4. 7
5. 10

Question 15

Each dot represents one student. The circles show which fruits the students like. How many students like oranges but do not like bananas?

1. 5
2. 8
3. 10
4. 12
5. 16

Question 16

How many numbers in the figure are both even and divisible by 5?

1. 9
2. 6
3. 5
4. 4
5. 3

Question 17

In the arithmetic crossword, what is $A+B+C+D$? The symbol : means division.

Question 18

In the first round of a grouping game, each group has 1 boy and 1 girl, and nobody is left out. In the second round, each group has 1 boy and 2 girls, and only 3 boys are left out. How many students are playing?

Question 19

Class 2A lines up and counts off 1, 2, 3, … from front to back. Four students from class 2B join at places in the middle, and everyone counts off again from 1. The sum of all the numbers is now 98 greater than before. How many students are in class 2A?

Question 20

Put the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 into the small circles, using each once. The numbers on each large circle add to 22. What is the sum of the two numbers in the circles marked ?