Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
January 1969 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1969
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1969A four-letter word is hidden between two words that are next to each other in this sentence. Which word is hidden? 'He made a big pot of carrot soup yesterday.' A) ROTS B) ROUP C) OTSO D) TSOU E) ROTO
- 2nd January 1969Find the word that completes both compound words: NOTE____ and ____MARK.
- 3rd January 1969Find the next number: 6, 18, 54, 162, ( ? )
- 4th January 1969Which word can mean both 'to fasten firmly' and 'a small piece of metal used to join pieces of wood'? A) Hit B) Nail C) Hook D) Punch E) Pin
- 5th January 1969H ( ? ? ? ) ROID. A) AND B) OWL C) ILL D) ARE E) OAR
- 6th January 1969Which word can mean both 'a place where legal cases are judged' and 'to try to win someone's affection'? A) Judge B) Court C) Woo D) Trial E) Charm
- 7th January 1969If the code for CRAYON is ZOXVLK, what is the code for PHONE, using the same rule? A) LDKJA B) NFMLC C) MELBK D) BKLEM E) MELKB
- 8th January 1969A pupil's plan for a story reads: 'boy finds map - follows clues - gets lost - finds treasure'. Which stage of the story mountain is missing?
- 9th January 1969Find and correct the single error: 'The weather effected the outcome of the match.'
- 10th January 1969Cloze: Complete the gap using a word from this bank (although, because, however, before): 'The match was cancelled ___ the pitch was flooded.'
- 11th January 1969'From where I stood, the harbour looked almost peaceful, though I knew what lay beneath its calm surface.' What does this sentence suggest about the difference between appearance and reality?
- 12th January 1969'The scheme has cut short car journeys by a fifth in its first year.' According to this sentence, by how much have short car journeys fallen?
- 13th January 1969Explain what would change in meaning between 'My sister who lives in Leeds is a doctor' and 'My sister, who lives in Leeds, is a doctor', assuming the speaker has more than one sister.
- 14th January 1969'children breathe them in on their way to class' - what effect does mentioning children specifically have on the reader?
- 15th January 1969Convert to direct speech: David said that he had lost his keys the day before.
- 16th January 1969Which spelling is correct: recieve or receive?
- 17th January 1969Find the misspelled word: 'It was definately the best match of the season.'
- 18th January 1969Why might a writer choose to give a specific figure, such as 'almost a third', rather than simply saying polytunnels 'save energy'?
- 19th January 1969Rephrase the idiom "under the weather" in plain words, as used in: "Maya stayed home from school because she was feeling a little under the weather."
- 20th January 1969Explain the difference between a simile and a metaphor, using an example of each.
- 21st January 1969According to the extract, what two examples of material can be pulped to make paper?
- 22nd January 1969True or False: Extract B is written mainly to entertain the reader with a story.
- 23rd January 1969Explain why finishing a story with the character waking up to find it had all been a dream is usually a weak ending.
- 24th January 1969True or False: a poem describing repeated physical work often uses repeated words or phrases to mirror that repetition.
- 25th January 1969State whether questions about a character's feelings are more likely to appear for a fiction extract or a factual non-fiction extract.
- 26th January 1969Round 0.0472 to 1 significant figure.
- 27th January 1969True or False: the pack with the lowest total price is always the best value for money.
- 28th January 1969Convert 3.6 km to metres.
- 29th January 19697 x _ = 56, where the underscore is the missing digit. Find the missing digit.
- 30th January 1969What is the order of rotational symmetry of a square?
- 31st January 1969A weighing scale has labelled marks at 0 kg and 1 kg, with 4 equal divisions between them. What does each division represent?