Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
January 1970 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1970
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1970Explain the difference in connotation between 'assertive' and 'bossy' when describing someone who gives instructions confidently.
- 2nd January 1970'The carriages rocked like a cradle on wheels.' Name the simile in this line.
- 3rd January 1970Give one word with a positive connotation and one word with a negative connotation that both mean "unusual".
- 4th January 1970Add the missing comma: 'After finishing his homework Tom went outside to play.'
- 5th January 1970Explain why a specific example is more persuasive than a vague general statement.
- 6th January 1970How many lines are quoted in 'Every night I feed the light its steady diet of flame, / so that far-off ships need never fear the rocks below'?
- 7th January 1970Correct the punctuation error, given that three boys own the bikes: 'The three boys bikes were left outside.'
- 8th January 1970Which genre is being described: 'A short piece that presents facts, uses headings, and aims to inform the reader about a topic'?
- 9th January 1970True or False: a poem set in autumn or at harvest time often uses ideas of change or endings as well as describing the season itself.
- 10th January 1970Choose the correct pronoun: 'Jack and (I / me) are going to the cinema.'
- 11th January 1970Give the correct sign-off for a formal letter that began "Dear Mrs Owusu,".
- 12th January 1970In Extract B, give one fact stated about how long swifts can stay airborne.
- 13th January 1970Complete the gap: 'The path grew steadily (1)_______ as they climbed higher up the hillside.'
- 14th January 1970A town's population of 8000 increases by 5%. Work out the new population.
- 15th January 1970A bag contains 60 marbles. 1/4 of them are red, and the rest are shared between blue and green marbles in the ratio 2 : 3. How many green marbles are there?
- 16th January 1970A rectangular lawn measures 12 m by 7 m. Fencing costs 3.50 pounds per metre. Calculate the total cost of fencing the whole perimeter.
- 17th January 1970The sum of two people's ages is 30 and their difference is 4. Find the two ages.
- 18th January 1970Point E is at (-2, -5). Translate E by 4 right and 6 up. Write down the new coordinates.
- 19th January 1970A ferry departs 21:50 and arrives 00:15 the next day. How long is the crossing?
- 20th January 1970Team A's scores have a range of 12. Team B's scores have a range of 5. Which team's scores are more consistent?
- 21st January 1970Find the next two terms of the sequence 6, 11, 16, 21, ...
- 22nd January 1970In a multiple-choice question with 5 options, you can immediately rule out 2 as clearly too large. If you then had to guess, has your chance of guessing correctly gone up or down, and to what fraction?
- 23rd January 1970Write the next two terms of the sequence 3, 8, 13, 18, ...
- 24th January 1970A data table lists three towns' populations: Ashby 12,400, Byton 9,800, Carwell 15,650. What is the combined population of Byton and Carwell?
- 25th January 1970Find the next two terms of the sequence 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 26th January 1970A shop sells notebooks at 1.60 pounds each. A pupil buys 3 notebooks and pays with a 10-pound note. How much change do they get?
- 27th January 1970Calculate: 27 x 16.
- 28th January 1970What is 6 + 7?
- 29th January 1970Tickets cost 4 pounds each. How much do 7 tickets cost?
- 30th January 1970A rectangular field is 120 m by 80 m. What is its perimeter in metres?
- 31st January 1970Work out 5/6 - 1/3, giving your answer in its simplest form.