Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
April 1976 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1976
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1976Find the word that completes both compound words: NOTE____ and ____MARK.
- 2nd April 1976Find the next number: 6, 18, 54, 162, ( ? )
- 3rd April 1976Which 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
- 4th April 1976H ( ? ? ? ) ROID. A) AND B) OWL C) ILL D) ARE E) OAR
- 5th April 1976Which 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
- 6th April 1976If 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
- 7th April 1976True or False: it is good practice to note one specific detail or example next to each stage of a plan, not just a general idea.
- 8th April 1976Find and correct the single error: 'The chefs speciality was a rich tomato soup.'
- 9th April 1976Cloze: Complete the gap using a word from this bank (quietly, loudly, slowly, quickly): 'She tiptoed ___ past the sleeping baby so as not to wake him.'
- 10th April 1976Explain, in your own words, what 'the wind played tricks among the rocks' suggests, without copying the original wording.
- 11th April 1976'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?
- 12th April 1976Explain 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.
- 13th April 1976'children breathe them in on their way to class' - what effect does mentioning children specifically have on the reader?
- 14th April 1976Convert to direct speech: David said that he had lost his keys the day before.
- 15th April 1976Complete with the correct homophone: 'Please put your coat over ___.' (in that place)
- 16th April 1976Find the misspelled word: 'It was definately the best match of the season.'
- 17th April 1976Why might a writer choose to give a specific figure, such as 'almost a third', rather than simply saying polytunnels 'save energy'?
- 18th April 1976Rephrase 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."
- 19th April 1976Explain the difference between a simile and a metaphor, using an example of each.
- 20th April 1976According to the extract, what two examples of material can be pulped to make paper?
- 21st April 1976True or False: Extract B is written mainly to entertain the reader with a story.
- 22nd April 1976Explain why finishing a story with the character waking up to find it had all been a dream is usually a weak ending.
- 23rd April 1976True or False: a poem describing repeated physical work often uses repeated words or phrases to mirror that repetition.
- 24th April 1976State whether questions about a character's feelings are more likely to appear for a fiction extract or a factual non-fiction extract.
- 25th April 1976True or False: an estimate should use the exact same numbers as the real calculation.
- 26th April 1976Explain why comparing the total prices of two differently sized packs, without finding a unit price, can be misleading.
- 27th April 1976Convert 3.6 km to metres.
- 28th April 1976100 - 6_ = 37, where the underscore is the missing units digit of the two-digit number 6_. Find the missing digit.
- 29th April 1976What is the order of rotational symmetry of a rectangle that is not a square?
- 30th April 1976A measuring cylinder has marks at 100 ml and 150 ml, with 5 equal divisions between them. What does each division represent?