Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
May 1982 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1982
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1982Give one word or phrase from the extract that describes how traditional greenhouses are heated.
- 2nd May 1982Explain what is meant by the idiom "bite the bullet" in the sentence: "Tom finally decided to bite the bullet and tell his coach he wanted to quit the team."
- 3rd May 1982Why should figurative language usually be used sparingly, one or two images per paragraph, rather than in every sentence?
- 4th May 1982Give one word from the extract that means 'spread out equally across a surface'.
- 5th May 1982In Extract A, what is Mia doing while the others have already jumped in?
- 6th May 1982What is a "circular ending", and why can it make a short story feel more complete?
- 7th May 1982'Sparks scattered like a handful of thrown stars.' Name the simile in this line.
- 8th May 1982True or False: on a mixed-genre paper, a question that asks pupils to compare tone across Extract A and Extract B could only be answered correctly using evidence from Extract A alone.
- 9th May 1982Estimate 58 x 21 by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 10th May 1982A 250 g jar of jam costs 1.50 pounds. Find the price per 100 g.
- 11th May 1982A bottle holds 1.5 litres. How many millilitres is this?
- 12th May 19826 x Z = 42, where Z is a single digit. Find Z.
- 13th May 1982How many lines of symmetry does a rectangle that is not a square have?
- 14th May 1982On the scale in the previous question, the pointer sits 3 divisions above the 0 kg mark. What weight is shown?
- 15th May 1982A litres-to-gallons conversion graph shows 45 litres is equal to 10 gallons. How many litres is 1 gallon?
- 16th May 1982A sequence begins 9, 13, 17, 21, ... Find the nth term.
- 17th May 1982A school raises 150 pounds. Half is spent on new books and a quarter of what remains is spent on a trophy. How much is left after both purchases?
- 18th May 1982A shop sells pencils in packs of 6 for 1.80 pounds. What is the cost of one pencil?
- 19th May 1982Find 20% of 45.
- 20th May 1982Two angles on a straight line are 65 degrees and x degrees. Find x.
- 21st May 1982A sequence begins 50, 44, 38, 32, ... Find the next term.
- 22nd May 1982Convert 2 hours 40 minutes into minutes.
- 23rd May 1982What is 8 more than 47?
- 24th May 1982Simplify the ratio 24:36.
- 25th May 1982Round 68,472 to the nearest thousand.
- 26th May 1982A tailor has 154 metres of fabric and uses 89 metres on one order. How many metres are left?
- 27th May 1982Find 75% of 160.
- 28th May 1982A bar chart shows 7 pupils scored a 'yellow' vote, 4 scored 'purple', and 9 scored 'orange'. How many pupils voted in total?
- 29th May 1982What is 12 more than 59?
- 30th May 1982Divide 156 by 6.
- 31st May 1982Find 10% of 320 ml.