Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
July 1977 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1977
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1977Find the misspelled word and explain the rule that fixes it: 'The two teams begining their match were evenly matched.'
- 2nd July 1977In your own words, explain how a polytunnel keeps crops warm, according to the extract.
- 3rd July 1977An 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.
- 4th July 1977Write one sentence using personification to describe a storm approaching.
- 5th July 1977Which happens first, according to the extract: pressing the sheet, or pouring the pulp onto the screen?
- 6th July 1977What is a rhetorical question, and identify one example from Extract B.
- 7th July 1977Write 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.
- 8th July 1977'The forge breathes its orange heat into the cold morning.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 9th July 1977In the sentence 'No sensible person could deny that recycling saves the planet', which genre is most likely being used?
- 10th July 1977Round 0.0472 to 1 significant figure.
- 11th July 1977True or False: the pack with the lowest total price is always the best value for money.
- 12th July 1977Add together 1.2 kg and 350 g, giving your answer in kilograms.
- 13th July 1977AB + 15 = 62, where AB is a two-digit number with tens digit A and units digit B. Find the two-digit number AB.
- 14th July 1977Name a quadrilateral that has exactly one pair of parallel sides.
- 15th July 1977A thermometer is marked from -10 to 0 degrees C, with 5 equal divisions. What temperature is shown 2 divisions above -10?
- 16th July 1977A car's fuel gauge line graph shows the tank was full (50 litres) at the start of a journey and empty after travelling 400 km. Assuming fuel is used at a constant rate, how much fuel is left after 240 km?
- 17th July 1977A sequence begins 80, 72, 64, 56, ... Write down the next two terms.
- 18th July 1977A car journey of 240 km is completed in two stages. The first stage takes 2 hours at 60 km/h. The second stage covers the remaining distance in 1.5 hours. Work out the average speed for the second stage.
- 19th July 1977Bus A leaves at 14:05 and arrives at 15:40. Bus B leaves at 14:20 and takes the same journey time as Bus A. What time does Bus B arrive?
- 20th July 1977Double 6.5, then subtract 5.
- 21st July 1977A rectangle has length 9cm and width 4cm. Find its perimeter.
- 22nd July 1977Solve: 2n + 9 = 21.
- 23rd July 1977Find the area of a triangle with base 10cm and height 6cm.
- 24th July 1977Divide 96 by 8.
- 25th July 19775 pens cost 2 pounds 50. What is the cost of one pen?
- 26th July 1977What is the largest four-digit number that can be made using the digits 9, 1, 6 and 4 exactly once?
- 27th July 1977A grocer has 175 apples to pack into bags of 6. How many full bags can he make, and how many apples are left over?
- 28th July 1977Find 20% of 90.
- 29th July 1977Find the median of this data set: 6, 2, 9, 4, 7.
- 30th July 1977Divide 91 by 7.
- 31st July 1977A farmer has 245 eggs and packs them into boxes of 12. How many full boxes can be made, and how many eggs are left over?