Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
April 1977 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1977
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1977'The carriages rocked like a cradle on wheels.' Name the simile in this line.
- 2nd April 1977Give one word with a positive connotation and one word with a negative connotation that both mean "unusual".
- 3rd April 1977What sentence type is 'What a fantastic goal that was!'?
- 4th April 1977Why is it a strength, not a weakness, for a persuasive piece to mention and then answer a counter-argument?
- 5th April 1977How 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'?
- 6th April 1977Correct the punctuation error, given that three boys own the bikes: 'The three boys bikes were left outside.'
- 7th April 1977A mixed-genre paper asks pupils to compare the tone of a fiction extract and a non-fiction extract on a similar subject. What does 'tone' mean in this context?
- 8th April 1977True 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.
- 9th April 1977Choose the correct pronoun: 'Jack and (I / me) are going to the cinema.'
- 10th April 1977Give the correct sign-off for a formal letter that began "Dear Mrs Owusu,".
- 11th April 1977In Extract B, give one fact stated about how long swifts can stay airborne.
- 12th April 1977Explain why, in an open cloze passage with no word bank, checking word class before thinking of an exact word saves time.
- 13th April 1977A 60-pound coat has its price increased by 30%, then the new price is reduced by 30%. Work out the final price, and state whether it is the same as the original 60 pounds.
- 14th April 1977In a class of 30 pupils, 3/5 walk to school. Of the pupils who do not walk, the ratio who cycle to those who are driven is 1 : 3. How many pupils are driven to school?
- 15th April 1977A rectangular lawn measures 12 m by 7 m. Fencing costs 3.50 pounds per metre. Calculate the total cost of fencing the whole perimeter.
- 16th April 1977The difference between two people's ages is 6 years. In 10 years' time, what will the difference between their ages be?
- 17th April 1977Point D is at (1, 4). Translate D by 2 right and 3 down. Write down the new coordinates.
- 18th April 1977Three buses depart Sycamore Road at 08:10, 08:35 and 09:00. Which is the latest one that Priya can catch if she must depart by 08:40 at the latest?
- 19th April 1977Eight numbers have a mean of 7. Seven of them are 4, 6, 9, 3, 8, 10 and 5. Work out the eighth number.
- 20th April 1977The nth term of a sequence is 2n + 5. Which term of the sequence is equal to 23?
- 21st April 1977Estimate first, then calculate exactly: roughly what is 198 x 4? Then work out the exact answer.
- 22nd April 1977Write the next two terms of the sequence 3, 8, 13, 18, ...
- 23rd April 1977A data table lists three towns' populations: Ashby 12,400, Byton 9,800, Carwell 15,650. What is the combined population of Byton and Carwell?
- 24th April 1977Find the next two terms of the sequence 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 25th April 1977A 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?
- 26th April 1977Calculate: 27 x 16.
- 27th April 1977What is 6 + 7?
- 28th April 1977Tickets cost 4 pounds each. How much do 7 tickets cost?
- 29th April 1977A rectangular field is 120 m by 80 m. What is its perimeter in metres?
- 30th April 1977Work out 5/6 - 1/3, giving your answer in its simplest form.