Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
May 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1978A shirt costs £25 and is reduced by 20%. Find the new price.
- 2nd May 1978A book costs 8.50 pounds. Calculate the cost of 6 copies of the book.
- 3rd May 1978Add 59 and 26.
- 4th May 1978Order these from smallest to largest: 1/4, 0.3, 20%.
- 5th May 1978A solid stands on a 3 by 2 grid (columns A, B, C; rows 1, 2). Heights: A1 = 1, B1 = 2, C1 = 1, A2 = 2, B2 = 1, C2 = 1. What is the front elevation, reading columns A, B, C?
- 6th May 1978Figure 1: triangle rotated 0 degrees with 2 dots. Figure 2: triangle rotated 90 degrees clockwise with 5 dots. Figure 3: square rotated 45 degrees clockwise with 3 dots. What should the answer figure look like?
- 7th May 1978A net has a straight line of four squares: smiley face, star, moon, heart, as before, but this time a diamond is attached directly above the moon instead of above the star. Is the diamond opposite the moon, adjacent to it, or impossible to tell using the gap rule alone?
- 8th May 1978If 4 pens cost 3.20 pounds, how much do 7 pens cost at the same rate?
- 9th May 1978Find the median of 12, 3, 8, 15 and 7.
- 10th May 1978SILENT is closest in meaning to: (a) loud (b) quiet (c) fast (d) bright.
- 11th May 1978'The committee's decision was met with widespread apathy rather than outrage.' What does 'apathy' mean in this sentence?
- 12th May 1978Using the same code (A=1, B=2, and so on, added together), what is the code total for 'CAB'?
- 13th May 1978Choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to ABUNDANT: plentiful, scarce, common, large.
- 14th May 1978A recipe uses 350ml of milk. How many full 250ml glasses can be poured from 2 litres of milk after the recipe has used its share?
- 15th May 1978A shape is reflected in a horizontal mirror line (a top-bottom flip). If it started with a dot in the bottom-left corner, where is the dot now?
- 16th May 1978If each letter of a word is coded by moving it forward one place in the alphabet (so CAT would be coded as DBU), decode the word 'EBSL' back to the original word it stands for.
- 17th May 1978What is 30% of 3/4 of 200?
- 18th May 1978A price of 80 pounds increases by 5%, and the new price then decreases by 5%. Is the final price the same as the original 80 pounds? Explain briefly.
- 19th May 1978In a sequence, a triangle gains one extra dot along its base at each step (1 dot, 2 dots, 3 dots). How many dots will the fifth shape have?
- 20th May 1978A rectangle has an area of 48 cm squared and a length of 8 cm. What is its width?
- 21st May 1978Which sentence uses an apostrophe correctly: 'The dog's bone was buried in the garden' or 'The dogs' bone was buried in the garden' (for one dog)?
- 22nd May 1978SNOW ( ) WALK - which word completes SNOW and begins WALK?
- 23rd May 1978(LOOP, POOL) (STOP, POTS) (DEER, ?)
- 24th May 1978Find the next number: 5, 11, 23, 47, 95, ( ? )
- 25th May 1978F=2, G=5, H=7, J=12, K=20. Work out F + G. Which letter has this value?
- 26th May 1978In this code, each letter's alphabet position is doubled. If the code for CAT is 6-2-40, what is the code for DOG?
- 27th May 19785 (28) 9 | 7 (?) 4. The two outside numbers are added together, then the total is doubled. Work out the missing number. A) 20 B) 22 C) 24 D) 18 E) 26
- 28th May 19783 (21) 8 | 6 (?) 9. The two outside numbers are multiplied together, then the first outside number is subtracted. Work out the missing number. A) 48 B) 45 C) 42 D) 51 E) 54
- 29th May 1978Which ONE word means both 'the inner surface of your hand' and 'a tropical tree with long leaves at the top'? A) LEAF B) HAND C) PALM D) COCONUT E) FROND
- 30th May 1978Choose the word closest in meaning to ANCIENT. A) modern B) young C) age-old D) broken E) rare
- 31st May 1978FIRE ( ??? ) SHOP. Choose the missing word from: A) Place B) Work C) House D) Side E) Man