Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
April 1970 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1970
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1970Convert to reported speech: 'We will finish the project tomorrow,' said the team.
- 2nd April 1970Add the correct suffix, applying the doubling rule: 'run' + '-ing' = ?
- 3rd April 1970Find the misspelled word and explain the rule that fixes it: 'The two teams begining their match were evenly matched.'
- 4th April 1970In your own words, explain how a polytunnel keeps crops warm, according to the extract.
- 5th April 1970An idiom you have not seen before, "jump on the bandwagon", appears in this sentence: "Once one shop started selling the toy, every other shop jumped on the bandwagon." Using context alone, suggest a sensible meaning.
- 6th April 1970Write one sentence using personification to describe a storm approaching.
- 7th April 1970Which happens first, according to the extract: pressing the sheet, or pouring the pulp onto the screen?
- 8th April 1970What is a rhetorical question, and identify one example from Extract B.
- 9th April 1970Write one opening line for a story about a boy who finds a locked door in his new house, using a piece of dialogue mid-conversation as your hook.
- 10th April 1970'The forge breathes its orange heat into the cold morning.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 11th April 1970In the sentence 'No sensible person could deny that recycling saves the planet', which genre is most likely being used?
- 12th April 1970A shop's till shows a bill of 179.40 pounds for 6 identical items. Estimate the price of one item by rounding the total to the nearest 10 pounds first.
- 13th April 1970A 2-litre bottle of squash costs 3.00 pounds and a 3-litre bottle costs 4.20 pounds. Which is better value per litre?
- 14th April 1970Add together 1.2 kg and 350 g, giving your answer in kilograms.
- 15th April 19709 x 6 = 5_, where the underscore is the missing units digit of the answer. Find the missing digit.
- 16th April 1970Name a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides and equal opposite angles, but sides that are not all equal and no right angles.
- 17th April 1970A ruler is marked in centimetres, with 10 small divisions between each centimetre mark. What does each small division represent?
- 18th April 1970A conversion graph shows that 10 miles is equal to 16 km. How many km is 5 miles?
- 19th April 1970A sequence begins 80, 72, 64, 56, ... Write down the next two terms.
- 20th April 1970Three friends share a bill in the ratio 2:3:5. If the total bill is 60 pounds, how much does the friend with the largest share pay?
- 21st April 1970A journey of 245km is covered at an average speed of 70km/h. How long does the journey take?
- 22nd April 1970Find 5% of 220.
- 23rd April 1970A rectangle has length 9cm and width 4cm. Find its perimeter.
- 24th April 1970Solve: 2n + 9 = 21.
- 25th April 1970Find the area of a triangle with base 10cm and height 6cm.
- 26th April 1970Divide 96 by 8.
- 27th April 19705 pens cost 2 pounds 50. What is the cost of one pen?
- 28th April 1970What is the largest four-digit number that can be made using the digits 9, 1, 6 and 4 exactly once?
- 29th April 1970A grocer has 175 apples to pack into bags of 6. How many full bags can he make, and how many apples are left over?
- 30th April 1970Find 20% of 90.