Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
August 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1960Explain why 'The girl that won the race' would normally not use commas, while 'Sophie, who won the race,' would.
- 2nd August 1960True or False: The writer suggests the exhaust fume problem only happens occasionally.
- 3rd August 1960Convert to reported speech: 'Where are you going?' Sarah asked her brother.
- 4th August 1960Which spelling is correct: recieve or receive?
- 5th August 1960Find the misspelled word: 'The childran ran outside as soon as the bell rang.'
- 6th August 1960Give one word or phrase from the extract that describes how traditional greenhouses are heated.
- 7th August 1960Explain what is meant by the idiom "bite the bullet" in the sentence: "Tom finally decided to bite the bullet and tell his coach he wanted to quit the team."
- 8th August 1960Why should figurative language usually be used sparingly, one or two images per paragraph, rather than in every sentence?
- 9th August 1960Give one word from the extract that means 'spread out equally across a surface'.
- 10th August 1960In Extract A, what is Mia doing while the others have already jumped in?
- 11th August 1960What is a "circular ending", and why can it make a short story feel more complete?
- 12th August 1960'Sparks scattered like a handful of thrown stars.' Name the simile in this line.
- 13th August 1960True or False: on a mixed-genre paper, a question that asks pupils to compare tone across Extract A and Extract B could only be answered correctly using evidence from Extract A alone.
- 14th August 1960Round 0.0472 to 1 significant figure.
- 15th August 1960True or False: the pack with the lowest total price is always the best value for money.
- 16th August 1960A bottle holds 1.5 litres. How many millilitres is this?
- 17th August 19609 x 6 = 5_, where the underscore is the missing units digit of the answer. Find the missing digit.
- 18th August 1960Name a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides and equal opposite angles, but sides that are not all equal and no right angles.
- 19th August 1960A ruler is marked in centimetres, with 10 small divisions between each centimetre mark. What does each small division represent?
- 20th August 1960A car's fuel gauge line graph shows the tank was full (50 litres) at the start of a journey and empty after travelling 400 km. Assuming fuel is used at a constant rate, how much fuel is left after 240 km?
- 21st August 1960A sequence begins 9, 13, 17, 21, ... Find the nth term.
- 22nd August 1960A car journey of 240 km is completed in two stages. The first stage takes 2 hours at 60 km/h. The second stage covers the remaining distance in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the second stage.
- 23rd August 1960Bus A leaves at 14:05 and arrives at 15:40. Bus B leaves at 14:20 and takes the same journey time as Bus A. What time does Bus B arrive?
- 24th August 1960Double 6.5, then subtract 5.
- 25th August 1960Two angles on a straight line are 65 degrees and x degrees. Find x.
- 26th August 1960A sequence begins 50, 44, 38, 32, ... Find the next term.
- 27th August 1960Convert 2 hours 40 minutes into minutes.
- 28th August 1960What is 8 more than 47?
- 29th August 1960Simplify the ratio 24:36.
- 30th August 1960Round 68,472 to the nearest thousand.
- 31st August 1960A tailor has 154 metres of fabric and uses 89 metres on one order. How many metres are left?