Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
February 1975 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1975
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1975Give one word or phrase from the extract that describes how traditional greenhouses are heated.
- 2nd February 1975Explain what is meant by the idiom "bite the bullet" in the sentence: "Tom finally decided to bite the bullet and tell his coach he wanted to quit the team."
- 3rd February 1975Why should figurative language usually be used sparingly, one or two images per paragraph, rather than in every sentence?
- 4th February 1975Give one word from the extract that means 'spread out equally across a surface'.
- 5th February 1975In Extract A, what is Mia doing while the others have already jumped in?
- 6th February 1975What is a "circular ending", and why can it make a short story feel more complete?
- 7th February 1975'Sparks scattered like a handful of thrown stars.' Name the simile in this line.
- 8th February 1975True or False: on a mixed-genre paper, a question that asks pupils to compare tone across Extract A and Extract B could only be answered correctly using evidence from Extract A alone.
- 9th February 1975Round 17.68 to the nearest whole number.
- 10th February 1975Which is better value: 3 apples for 90p, or 5 apples for 1.40 pounds?
- 11th February 1975A bottle holds 1.5 litres. How many millilitres is this?
- 12th February 19754_ + 27 = 71, where the underscore is the missing units digit of the two-digit number. Find the missing digit.
- 13th February 1975Does a rhombus always have four right angles? Explain your answer.
- 14th February 1975A set of kitchen scales is labelled every 100 g, with 5 small divisions between each label. What does each small division represent?
- 15th February 1975True or False: on a conversion graph that passes through the origin, doubling the value on one axis always doubles the corresponding value on the other axis.
- 16th February 1975A sequence begins 9, 13, 17, 21, ... Find the nth term.
- 17th February 1975A tank holds 200 litres and is 3/8 full. How many more litres are needed to fill it completely?
- 18th February 1975Apples cost 45p each, or 40p each when bought in a bag of 6. What is the cost of a bag of 6 apples?
- 19th February 1975150 - 68
- 20th February 1975Two angles on a straight line are 65 degrees and x degrees. Find x.
- 21st February 1975A sequence begins 50, 44, 38, 32, ... Find the next term.
- 22nd February 1975Convert 2 hours 40 minutes into minutes.
- 23rd February 1975What is 8 more than 47?
- 24th February 1975Simplify the ratio 24:36.
- 25th February 1975Round 68,472 to the nearest thousand.
- 26th February 1975A tailor has 154 metres of fabric and uses 89 metres on one order. How many metres are left?
- 27th February 1975Find 75% of 160.
- 28th February 1975A bar chart shows 7 pupils scored a 'yellow' vote, 4 scored 'purple', and 9 scored 'orange'. How many pupils voted in total?