Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
December 1957 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1957
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1957How many lines are quoted in 'Streetlights blink awake one by one, / stitching the dark city back together'?
- 2nd December 1957In a persuasive writing task, why is it important to choose a side of the argument immediately and stick to it?
- 3rd December 1957Where should the apostrophe go in 'the childrens playground' (more than one child, irregular plural)?
- 4th December 1957A poem's final stanza repeats a word from its first stanza. Explain one reason a poet might do this.
- 5th December 1957The word 'bark' could mean the sound a dog makes or the outer covering of a tree. Which meaning fits in 'The dog's bark echoed across the yard'?
- 6th December 1957'The window offers up the sleeping villages one by one.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 7th December 1957State whether the word "chatty" generally has a positive or negative connotation, compared with the more negative "nosy", when describing someone who talks to a lot of people.
- 8th December 1957Identify the word class of 'garden' in the sentence 'She walked into the garden'.
- 9th December 1957Write one rhetorical question that could open a persuasive piece arguing against homework at weekends.
- 10th December 1957'The lighthouse stands watch over the sleeping bay.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 11th December 1957Which sentence uses a colon correctly? A) We need: eggs, milk and flour. B) We need three things: eggs, milk and flour.
- 12th December 1957Why is it important to check which extract (A or B) a question refers to on a mixed-genre paper?
- 13th December 1957'The wasps hovered like tiny golden thieves.' Name the simile in this line.
- 14th December 1957Choose the correct pronoun: 'The teacher gave the prize to Sam and (I / me).'
- 15th December 1957Name two features you would expect to see in a formal report but would not usually see in a persuasive letter.
- 16th December 1957Why might a mixed-genre paper pair a personal story about swifts with a factual passage about swifts, rather than about two unrelated topics?
- 17th December 1957In the sentence 'The crowd fell (1)_______ as the winner's name was announced', explain why 'silent' fits better than 'quiet', even though both are grammatically correct.
- 18th December 1957True or False: increasing an amount by 50% and then decreasing the result by 50% returns you to the original amount.
- 19th December 1957True or False: to find 2/5 of a ratio share, you first work out the share as a number, then find the fraction of that number.
- 20th December 1957A rectangle has length 7 cm and width 5 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 21st December 1957The difference between two people's ages is 6 years. In 10 years' time, what will the difference between their ages be?
- 22nd December 1957Point D is at (1, 4). Translate D by 2 right and 3 down. Write down the new coordinates.
- 23rd December 1957Three buses depart Sycamore Road at 08:10, 08:35 and 09:00. Which is the latest one that Priya can catch if she must depart by 08:40 at the latest?
- 24th December 1957A data set of 9 values is arranged in order. Which position is the median value in?
- 25th December 1957Find the term-to-term rule for the sequence 40, 34, 28, 22, ...
- 26th December 1957A pupil spends 90 seconds on a question, but had planned 54 seconds per question. Roughly how many seconds behind schedule are they after this one question?
- 27th December 1957A sequence is formed by doubling the previous term, starting at 3: 3, 6, 12, 24, ... Find the 6th term.
- 28th December 1957A graph shows a plant grows 4cm in week 1, 7cm in week 2 and 5cm in week 3. What is the total growth over the three weeks?
- 29th December 1957A sequence starts at 50, and each term is 6 less than the one before. Find the 4th term.
- 30th December 1957A class of 32 pupils is split into equal groups of 4 for a project. How many groups are there?
- 31st December 1957Calculate: 504 divided by 8.