Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
June 1965 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1965
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1965Find and copy the short sentence used at the end of the extract for emphasis.
- 2nd June 1965Convert to reported speech: Maria said, 'I feel unwell today.'
- 3rd June 1965Complete with the correct homophone: 'I can't believe ___ going on holiday tomorrow!' (they are)
- 4th June 1965Find the misspelled word: 'The teacher was embarassed after tripping over the bag.'
- 5th June 1965What is the effect of the connecting phrase 'by contrast' in the second sentence?
- 6th June 1965Explain why translating an idiom's individual words literally usually leads to a wrong or confusing meaning, using "raining cats and dogs" as your example.
- 7th June 1965Write an original simile describing a bonfire, avoiding the cliche "as hot as fire".
- 8th June 1965What is the purpose of shaking the pulp gently on the mesh screen, according to the extract?
- 9th June 1965Give one word from Extract B that shows the writer feels strongly that swimming is important.
- 10th June 1965What does "in medias res" mean when applied to a story's opening?
- 11th June 1965How many lines are quoted in 'The hammer sings its one bright note again and again, / until the iron finally learns to bend'?
- 12th June 1965Give one typical feature of a persuasive extract that would not usually appear in a purely factual non-fiction extract.
- 13th June 1965Estimate 58 x 21 by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 14th June 1965A 250 g jar of jam costs 1.50 pounds. Find the price per 100 g.
- 15th June 1965Convert 420 mm to centimetres.
- 16th June 19654_ + 27 = 71, where the underscore is the missing units digit of the two-digit number. Find the missing digit.
- 17th June 1965Does a rhombus always have four right angles? Explain your answer.
- 18th June 1965A set of kitchen scales is labelled every 100 g, with 5 small divisions between each label. What does each small division represent?
- 19th June 1965A litres-to-gallons conversion graph shows 45 litres is equal to 10 gallons. How many litres is 1 gallon?
- 20th June 1965A sequence begins 4, 9, 14, 19, ... Write down the next two terms.
- 21st June 1965A school raises 150 pounds. Half is spent on new books and a quarter of what remains is spent on a trophy. How much is left after both purchases?
- 22nd June 1965A shop sells pencils in packs of 6 for 1.80 pounds. What is the cost of one pencil?
- 23rd June 1965Find 20% of 45.
- 24th June 1965Share 36 sweets in the ratio 2:1.
- 25th June 1965Solve: n/3 + 4 = 10.
- 26th June 1965A right angle is split into two parts, one of 35 degrees. Find the other part.
- 27th June 1965Multiply 6 by 9.
- 28th June 1965Write 45:27 in its simplest form, working in your head. Which single number should you spot as the common factor?
- 29th June 1965What is the value of the digit 5 in the number 45,872?
- 30th June 1965A warehouse has 68 boxes. It receives a delivery of 47 more. How many boxes does the warehouse have now?