Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
June 1972 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1972
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1972The word 'bark' could mean the sound a dog makes or the outer covering of a tree. Which meaning fits in 'The dog's bark echoed across the yard'?
- 2nd June 1972'The window offers up the sleeping villages one by one.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 3rd June 1972State whether the word "chatty" generally has a positive or negative connotation, compared with the more negative "nosy", when describing someone who talks to a lot of people.
- 4th June 1972Punctuate this short piece of speech: Watch out shouted Leo
- 5th June 1972Explain what 'direct address' means in persuasive writing, and give a short example.
- 6th June 1972'The lighthouse stands watch over the sleeping bay.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 7th June 1972Which sentence uses a colon correctly? A) We need: eggs, milk and flour. B) We need three things: eggs, milk and flour.
- 8th June 1972Give one typical feature of a non-fiction informational extract that would not usually appear in a fiction extract.
- 9th June 1972'The wasps hovered like tiny golden thieves.' Name the simile in this line.
- 10th June 1972Choose the correct pronoun: 'The teacher gave the prize to Sam and (I / me).'
- 11th June 1972Name two features you would expect to see in a formal report but would not usually see in a persuasive letter.
- 12th June 1972Why might a mixed-genre paper pair a personal story about swifts with a factual passage about swifts, rather than about two unrelated topics?
- 13th June 1972Complete the gap with your own suitable word: 'The wind had (1)_______ overnight, leaving the streets scattered with broken branches.'
- 14th June 1972A car worth 12,000 pounds decreases in value by 25%. Work out its new value.
- 15th June 1972A recipe makes 900 g of dough, split in the ratio 5 : 4 between a loaf and a batch of rolls. The rolls are then divided into pieces, each weighing 1/8 of the rolls' total dough. How many roll pieces are made?
- 16th June 1972A rectangle has length 7 cm and width 5 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 17th June 1972A father is 30 years older than his son. If the son is 7, how old will the father be in 5 years' time?
- 18th June 1972Point C is at (5, -1). Reflect C in the y-axis. Write down the new coordinates.
- 19th June 1972A train stops at three stations: Ashby (departs 10:05), Bilton (arrives 10:28, departs 10:33), Colworth (arrives 10:56). How long does the whole journey from Ashby to Colworth take, including the stop at Bilton?
- 20th June 1972A frequency table shows: value 2, frequency 5; value 4, frequency 3; value 6, frequency 2. Find the mode.
- 21st June 1972Find the nth term rule for the sequence 7, 10, 13, 16, ...
- 22nd June 1972A GL-style paper has 50 questions to answer in 45 minutes. Roughly how many seconds does this give, on average, per question?
- 23rd June 1972A sequence is formed by doubling the previous term, starting at 3: 3, 6, 12, 24, ... Find the 6th term.
- 24th June 1972A graph shows a plant grows 4cm in week 1, 7cm in week 2 and 5cm in week 3. What is the total growth over the three weeks?
- 25th June 1972A sequence starts at 50, and each term is 6 less than the one before. Find the 4th term.
- 26th June 1972A class of 32 pupils is split into equal groups of 4 for a project. How many groups are there?
- 27th June 1972Calculate: 504 divided by 8.
- 28th June 1972What is 12 x 12?
- 29th June 1972A class of 30 pupils is split into groups of 5. How many groups are there?
- 30th June 1972Three angles on a straight line are 55 degrees, 65 degrees and x. What is the value of x?