Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance

October 1958 5-a-day

← Today's 11+ Entrance sheet

October 1958

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 5-6

Every sheet in October 1958

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st October 1958A cafe sells a meal deal for 5 pounds 50, or the items separately for 2 pounds 20 and 3 pounds 60. How much is saved by buying the meal deal?
  2. 2nd October 1958Find the mean of 6, 9, 12, 13.
  3. 3rd October 1958A fuel tank has a capacity of 60 litres and is 5/6 full. How many litres of fuel are in the tank?
  4. 4th October 1958Work out 5/6 - 3/8, giving your answer in its simplest form.
  5. 5th October 1958Complete the missing number: 5 : 9 = 15 : ___.
  6. 6th October 1958A water tank has a capacity of 240 litres and is 5/8 full. How many litres of water does it hold?
  7. 7th October 1958Write 15:20 in 12-hour clock time.
  8. 8th October 1958A jug holds 1.5 litres. How many millilitres is this?
  9. 9th October 1958A sequence has nth term 40 - 4n. Write the first three terms and explain how you can tell, without listing them all, that 0 will appear in the sequence.
  10. 10th October 1958Convert 3 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
  11. 11th October 1958A box has 10 tickets numbered 1 to 10. What is the probability of picking a multiple of 3?
  12. 12th October 1958Work out 0.026 x 100.
  13. 13th October 1958A square sheet measures 10cm by 10cm. It is folded in half horizontally, bottom edge onto top edge. A hole is punched 3cm from the crease and 4cm from the right edge, on the folded top half. Where do the two holes appear, measured from the right edge and the bottom edge?
  14. 14th October 1958Figure 1: triangle with 3 dots. Figure 2: square with 4 dots. Figure 3: pentagon with 5 dots. Which follows the same rule: a hexagon with 6 dots, or a hexagon with 5 dots?
  15. 15th October 1958Work out 27 x 4 without a calculator.
  16. 16th October 1958Find the mean of these five test scores: 14, 18, 12, 20, 16.
  17. 17th October 1958Estimate the answer to 3,912 x 4.8 by first rounding each number to a simple value.
  18. 18th October 1958Four of these five words belong together: sparrow, robin, salmon, eagle, owl. Which is the odd one out?
  19. 19th October 1958Three of these words are close in meaning to 'careful': hasty, cautious, prudent, guarded. Which one does not belong, and why?
  20. 20th October 1958A car travels 180 km in 3 hours at a steady speed. What is its speed in km per hour?
  21. 21st October 1958Work out 3/4 of 60.
  22. 22nd October 1958The word can mean a platform or structure used to display or hold something, or to tolerate something difficult. Which word is being described?
  23. 23rd October 1958Three shapes are stacked to build a 3D block: a 2x2x1 layer on the bottom and a single cube on top. How many cubes make up the whole block?
  24. 24th October 1958Work out 144 / 12.
  25. 25th October 1958'The committee's decision left little room for compromise.' What does 'room' mean in this sentence?
  26. 26th October 1958Continue the letter series: A, C, F, J, O, ...
  27. 27th October 1958'The wind tore at the flags, snapping them like whips against the grey sky.' What effect does the simile 'like whips' create?
  28. 28th October 1958What is the perimeter of a square with an area of 49 cm squared?
  29. 29th October 1958Find the letter that completes the word before the bracket and begins the word after the bracket: PLUM ( ? ) AGE
  30. 30th October 1958LION is to PRIDE as WOLF is to ?
  31. 31st October 1958(STUDY, KNOWLEDGE) (EXERCISE, FITNESS) (PRACTICE, ?)