Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
November 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1981Sentence completion: 'The critic's review was ___ , praising almost nothing about the performance.' Choose the best word: mixed, scathing, warm, brief.
- 2nd November 1981True or False: a poem written entirely in free verse, with no regular rhyme scheme, has an irregular structure.
- 3rd November 1981Complete the gap with the correct pronoun: "Mr Ahmed and his daughter packed the car quietly, since (1)_______ of them wanted to wake the rest of the family." Choose: He, She, Neither, They.
- 4th November 1981Give a synonym for 'ancient' that is stronger/more formal than 'old'.
- 5th November 1981True or False: in the extract, Amara opens the office door herself.
- 6th November 1981Explain why a writer might choose to summarise ten years in one sentence but spend a whole paragraph describing a single afternoon.
- 7th November 1981"The team's performance was (1)_______ disappointing, given how well they had trained." Choose the best word: A) mildly B) bitterly C) somewhat
- 8th November 1981Explain why a writer might show a character's feelings through their actions, such as picking up a spade, rather than stating directly how they feel.
- 9th November 1981Choose the correct connective: 'Priya trained for the race every morning before school; ___, she finished in the top three.' A) however B) meanwhile C) consequently
- 10th November 1981Choose the correct word: "There has been a considerable (1)_______ of rainfall this month." A) amount B) number
- 11th November 1981True or False: Jack is moving when he hears the floorboard creak.
- 12th November 1981'Elliot dragged the trunk...' Suggest one reason the writer chose 'dragged' instead of 'carried' to describe this action.
- 13th November 1981Three of these words are synonyms; find the odd one out: cautious, careful, wary, careless.
- 14th November 1981Find 1% of 600.
- 15th November 1981Find the difference in temperature between -7 degrees C and 6 degrees C.
- 16th November 1981I am even, I am divisible by 3, and I lie between 20 and 30. What number am I?
- 17th November 1981State the two steps you should always take before calculating the area of a compound shape made of several rectangles.
- 18th November 1981A cuboid measures 4 cm by 3 cm by 5 cm. Find its volume.
- 19th November 1981A train travels at a constant speed of 80 km/h for 3 hours. How far does it travel?
- 20th November 1981A Venn diagram shows 40 pupils in total. 25 play football, 18 play tennis, and 10 play both. How many play neither sport?
- 21st November 1981Solve: 5x = 35.
- 22nd November 1981Share 45 pounds in the ratio 2:3.
- 23rd November 1981x = 5 and y = 2. Work out the value of 3x - y.
- 24th November 1981A pictogram key shows one symbol = 5 pupils. A bar for Year 5 shows 6 full symbols. How many Year 5 pupils are represented?
- 25th November 1981Three consecutive whole numbers add up to 72. Form an equation using n for the smallest number, and solve it to find the three numbers.
- 26th November 1981A ribbon 84cm long is cut in the ratio 4:3. Find the length of the shorter piece.
- 27th November 1981A rope 18m long is cut into 3 equal pieces, then one of those pieces is cut in half. How long is one of the smallest pieces?
- 28th November 1981Find 3/8 of 64.
- 29th November 1981A shop has 53 apples and 38 oranges. How many more apples than oranges does it have?
- 30th November 1981Find the mode of this data set: 2, 5, 5, 3, 5, 8, 2.