Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
January 1963 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1963Why might a writer use a short sentence like 'It does not have to be this way' after two longer sentences?
- 2nd January 1963Convert to reported speech: 'We will finish the project tomorrow,' said the team.
- 3rd January 1963Complete with the correct homophone: '___ bag is this on the table?' (belonging to whom)
- 4th January 1963Find the misspelled word and explain the rule that fixes it: 'The two teams begining their match were evenly matched.'
- 5th January 1963In your own words, explain how a polytunnel keeps crops warm, according to the extract.
- 6th January 1963An idiom you have not seen before, "jump on the bandwagon", appears in this sentence: "Once one shop started selling the toy, every other shop jumped on the bandwagon." Using context alone, suggest a sensible meaning.
- 7th January 1963Write one sentence using personification to describe a storm approaching.
- 8th January 1963Which happens first, according to the extract: pressing the sheet, or pouring the pulp onto the screen?
- 9th January 1963What is a rhetorical question, and identify one example from Extract B.
- 10th January 1963Write one opening line for a story about a boy who finds a locked door in his new house, using a piece of dialogue mid-conversation as your hook.
- 11th January 1963'The forge breathes its orange heat into the cold morning.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 12th January 1963In the sentence 'No sensible person could deny that recycling saves the planet', which genre is most likely being used?
- 13th January 1963Explain why estimating before doing a calculation is a useful check, even when you plan to use a calculator.
- 14th January 1963A 12-pack of juice cartons costs 4.80 pounds. Find the price per carton.
- 15th January 1963Add together 1.2 kg and 350 g, giving your answer in kilograms.
- 16th January 19636 x Z = 42, where Z is a single digit. Find Z.
- 17th January 1963How many lines of symmetry does a rectangle that is not a square have?
- 18th January 1963On the scale in the previous question, the pointer sits 3 divisions above the 0 kg mark. What weight is shown?
- 19th January 1963A temperature line graph shows the temperature rose from 4 degrees C at 6am to 18 degrees C at 2pm, then fell to 10 degrees C by 6pm. Describe, in one sentence, how the temperature changed over the whole day.
- 20th January 1963A sequence begins 80, 72, 64, 56, ... Write down the next two terms.
- 21st January 1963A shop reduces a 60 pound jacket by 20 percent, then adds 5 percent VAT to the reduced price. What is the final price?
- 22nd January 1963A tank holds 180 litres and is filled at 15 litres per minute. How long does it take to fill from empty?
- 23rd January 196314 x 40
- 24th January 1963A rectangle has length 9cm and width 4cm. Find its perimeter.
- 25th January 1963Solve: 2n + 9 = 21.
- 26th January 1963Find the area of a triangle with base 10cm and height 6cm.
- 27th January 1963Divide 96 by 8.
- 28th January 19635 pens cost 2 pounds 50. What is the cost of one pen?
- 29th January 1963What is the largest four-digit number that can be made using the digits 9, 1, 6 and 4 exactly once?
- 30th January 1963A grocer has 175 apples to pack into bags of 6. How many full bags can he make, and how many apples are left over?
- 31st January 1963Find 20% of 90.