Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
March 1965 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1965
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1965State whether the prompt 'Sport is more important than art in school. Do you agree?' is asking for narrative, persuasive or descriptive writing.
- 2nd March 1965Join these two sentences correctly with a semicolon: 'The rain finally stopped. The sun came out almost immediately.'
- 3rd March 1965A poem's final stanza repeats a word from its first stanza. Explain one reason a poet might do this.
- 4th March 1965The 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'?
- 5th March 1965'The window offers up the sleeping villages one by one.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 6th March 1965State 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.
- 7th March 1965What sentence type is 'Close the window, please.'?
- 8th March 1965Give an example of the 'rule of three' in a sentence persuading readers to recycle more.
- 9th March 1965'The lighthouse stands watch over the sleeping bay.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 10th March 1965Which sentence uses a colon correctly? A) We need: eggs, milk and flour. B) We need three things: eggs, milk and flour.
- 11th March 1965True or False: the same question types (for example, 'explain the writer's use of language to build atmosphere') are equally likely to appear for both a fiction extract and a purely factual non-fiction extract.
- 12th March 1965'The wasps hovered like tiny golden thieves.' Name the simile in this line.
- 13th March 1965Choose the correct pronoun: 'The teacher gave the prize to Sam and (I / me).'
- 14th March 1965Name two features you would expect to see in a formal report but would not usually see in a persuasive letter.
- 15th March 1965Why might a mixed-genre paper pair a personal story about swifts with a factual passage about swifts, rather than about two unrelated topics?
- 16th March 1965Complete the gap: 'She read the letter twice, unable to (1)_______ what it actually meant.'
- 17th March 1965Explain why a 20% increase followed by a 20% decrease does not return an amount to its original value.
- 18th March 1965A total of 180 pounds is shared in the ratio 1 : 5 between Zara and a savings fund. Zara then spends 1/3 of her share. How much does Zara have left?
- 19th March 1965A rectangle has length 7 cm and width 5 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 20th March 1965Tom is 5 years older than Ella. Ella is 9. How old is Tom?
- 21st March 1965Point B is at (-3, 2). Reflect B in the x-axis. Write down the new coordinates.
- 22nd March 1965A coach departs 23:45 and the journey takes 40 minutes. At what time, using the 24-hour clock, does it arrive?
- 23rd March 1965A frequency table shows 1 pupil scored 5, 3 pupils scored 6, and 2 pupils scored 8 in a quiz. Work out the mean score.
- 24th March 1965A sequence follows the rule 'double the previous term, then subtract 1', starting at 3. Find the first four terms.
- 25th March 1965True or False: on a GL-style multiple-choice paper, it is generally better to fill in your best guess than to leave a question blank.
- 26th March 1965A sequence is formed by doubling the previous term, starting at 3: 3, 6, 12, 24, ... Find the 6th term.
- 27th March 1965A 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?
- 28th March 1965A sequence starts at 50, and each term is 6 less than the one before. Find the 4th term.
- 29th March 1965A class of 32 pupils is split into equal groups of 4 for a project. How many groups are there?
- 30th March 1965Calculate: 504 divided by 8.
- 31st March 1965What is 12 x 12?