Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
February 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1960'The wind howled around the chimney like a wolf calling to its pack.' Name the simile in this sentence.
- 2nd February 1960'It wasn't me,' he said, though his voice cracked halfway through the sentence. What does 'cracked' suggest about how Jamie was feeling as he spoke?
- 3rd February 1960Find and copy the simile used to describe the loose sign.
- 4th February 1960The word 'decision' appears in 'The judge's decision surprised everyone in the courtroom.' Which familiar verb is this word built from, and what word class is 'decision'?
- 5th February 1960Explain the idiom in: 'Once she realised her mistake, she decided to bite the bullet and tell her manager straight away.'
- 6th February 1960In your own words, explain why the rangers are cautious about claiming the seabird population has fully recovered.
- 7th February 1960Sentence completion: 'The critic's review was ___ , praising almost nothing about the performance.' Choose the best word: mixed, scathing, warm, brief.
- 8th February 1960True or False: a poem written entirely in free verse, with no regular rhyme scheme, has an irregular structure.
- 9th February 1960Complete the gap with the correct pronoun: "Mr Ahmed and his daughter packed the car quietly, since (1)_______ of them wanted to wake the rest of the family." Choose: He, She, Neither, They.
- 10th February 1960Rank these three words from mildest to strongest: furious, annoyed, enraged.
- 11th February 1960True or False: in the extract, Amara opens the office door herself.
- 12th February 1960Explain why a writer might choose to summarise ten years in one sentence but spend a whole paragraph describing a single afternoon.
- 13th February 1960"The team's performance was (1)_______ disappointing, given how well they had trained." Choose the best word: A) mildly B) bitterly C) somewhat
- 14th February 1960Explain why a writer might show a character's feelings through their actions, such as picking up a spade, rather than stating directly how they feel.
- 15th February 1960Choose the correct connective: 'Priya trained for the race every morning before school; ___, she finished in the top three.' A) however B) meanwhile C) consequently
- 16th February 1960Choose the correct word: "There has been a considerable (1)_______ of rainfall this month." A) amount B) number
- 17th February 1960True or False: Jack is moving when he hears the floorboard creak.
- 18th February 1960'Elliot dragged the trunk...' Suggest one reason the writer chose 'dragged' instead of 'carried' to describe this action.
- 19th February 1960Three of these words are synonyms; find the odd one out: cautious, careful, wary, careless.
- 20th February 1960Find 10% of 350.
- 21st February 1960Order these temperatures from coldest to warmest: -3, 5, -8, 0.
- 22nd February 1960Find the smallest three-digit number divisible by 6.
- 23rd February 1960A shape is formed from a 10 cm by 7 cm rectangle with a 4 cm by 3 cm rectangle removed from the middle of one long side, not from a corner. Explain why the perimeter is not the same as the original rectangle's perimeter.
- 24th February 1960A cuboid measures 4 cm by 3 cm by 5 cm. Find its volume.
- 25th February 1960A plane flies 2,400 km in 4 hours, then a further 600 km in 1 hour. Work out its average speed for the whole journey.
- 26th February 1960In a Venn diagram of 30 pupils, 8 like both apples and bananas. If 17 like apples in total, how many like apples only?
- 27th February 1960Solve: x + 9 = 17.
- 28th February 1960Share 45 pounds in the ratio 2:3.
- 29th February 1960x = 5 and y = 2. Work out the value of 3x - y.