Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
May 1967 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1967
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1967'The wind howled around the chimney like a wolf calling to its pack.' Name the simile in this sentence.
- 2nd May 1967'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 May 1967Find and copy the simile used to describe the loose sign.
- 4th May 1967The 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 May 1967Explain the idiom in: 'Once she realised her mistake, she decided to bite the bullet and tell her manager straight away.'
- 6th May 1967In your own words, explain why the rangers are cautious about claiming the seabird population has fully recovered.
- 7th May 1967Sentence completion: 'The critic's review was ___ , praising almost nothing about the performance.' Choose the best word: mixed, scathing, warm, brief.
- 8th May 1967True or False: a poem written entirely in free verse, with no regular rhyme scheme, has an irregular structure.
- 9th May 1967Complete 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 May 1967Complete the analogy: Doctor is to hospital as teacher is to ___.
- 11th May 1967True or False: in the extract, Amara opens the office door herself.
- 12th May 1967Explain why a writer might choose to summarise ten years in one sentence but spend a whole paragraph describing a single afternoon.
- 13th May 1967"The team's performance was (1)_______ disappointing, given how well they had trained." Choose the best word: A) mildly B) bitterly C) somewhat
- 14th May 1967Explain 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 May 1967Choose 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 May 1967Choose the correct word: "There has been a considerable (1)_______ of rainfall this month." A) amount B) number
- 17th May 1967True or False: Jack is moving when he hears the floorboard creak.
- 18th May 1967'Elliot dragged the trunk...' Suggest one reason the writer chose 'dragged' instead of 'carried' to describe this action.
- 19th May 1967Three of these words are synonyms; find the odd one out: cautious, careful, wary, careless.
- 20th May 1967Find 25% of 96.
- 21st May 1967Explain, using a number line, why subtracting a negative number has the same effect as adding a positive number.
- 22nd May 1967Is 522 divisible by 3?
- 23rd May 1967An L-shaped room is formed from an 8 m by 5 m rectangle with a 3 m by 2 m rectangle removed from one corner. Find its perimeter.
- 24th May 1967A cuboid measures 4 cm by 3 cm by 5 cm. Find its volume.
- 25th May 1967True or False: if a car halves its speed but keeps the distance the same, the journey time doubles.
- 26th May 1967In a two-way table, 15 pupils like tea only, 9 like coffee only, and 6 like both. How many pupils like at least one of tea or coffee?
- 27th May 1967Solve: 4(x + 1) = 24.
- 28th May 1967Share 45 pounds in the ratio 2:3.
- 29th May 1967x = 5 and y = 2. Work out the value of 3x - y.
- 30th May 1967A pictogram key shows one symbol = 5 pupils. A bar for Year 5 shows 6 full symbols. How many Year 5 pupils are represented?
- 31st May 1967Three consecutive whole numbers add up to 72. Form an equation using n for the smallest number, and solve it to find the three numbers.