Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
July 1983 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1983
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1983Find the next number: 6, 18, 54, 162, ( ? )
- 2nd July 1983Which word can mean both 'to fasten firmly' and 'a small piece of metal used to join pieces of wood'? A) Hit B) Nail C) Hook D) Punch E) Pin
- 3rd July 1983H ( ? ? ? ) ROID. A) AND B) OWL C) ILL D) ARE E) OAR
- 4th July 1983Which word can mean both 'a place where legal cases are judged' and 'to try to win someone's affection'? A) Judge B) Court C) Woo D) Trial E) Charm
- 5th July 1983If the code for CRAYON is ZOXVLK, what is the code for PHONE, using the same rule? A) LDKJA B) NFMLC C) MELBK D) BKLEM E) MELKB
- 6th July 1983Why should a pupil check their plan against the title before starting to write?
- 7th July 1983Find and correct the single error: 'By next summer, she will have finish her exams.'
- 8th July 1983Sentence completion: 'The old bridge looked ___ , but engineers confirmed it was perfectly safe.' Choose the best word: sturdy, precarious, colourful, distant.
- 9th July 1983'She could not tell what Edward was thinking; his face, as ever, gave nothing away.' Does this sentence suggest the narrator has access to Edward's thoughts?
- 10th July 1983'The scheme has cut short car journeys by a fifth in its first year.' According to this sentence, by how much have short car journeys fallen?
- 11th July 1983Explain what would change in meaning between 'My sister who lives in Leeds is a doctor' and 'My sister, who lives in Leeds, is a doctor', assuming the speaker has more than one sister.
- 12th July 1983'children breathe them in on their way to class' - what effect does mentioning children specifically have on the reader?
- 13th July 1983Convert to direct speech: David said that he had lost his keys the day before.
- 14th July 1983Choose the correct spelling: 'She was hopping / hoping to win the race.' (wishing to win)
- 15th July 1983Find the misspelled word: 'It was definately the best match of the season.'
- 16th July 1983Why might a writer choose to give a specific figure, such as 'almost a third', rather than simply saying polytunnels 'save energy'?
- 17th July 1983Rephrase the idiom "under the weather" in plain words, as used in: "Maya stayed home from school because she was feeling a little under the weather."
- 18th July 1983Explain the difference between a simile and a metaphor, using an example of each.
- 19th July 1983According to the extract, what two examples of material can be pulped to make paper?
- 20th July 1983True or False: Extract B is written mainly to entertain the reader with a story.
- 21st July 1983Explain why finishing a story with the character waking up to find it had all been a dream is usually a weak ending.
- 22nd July 1983True or False: a poem describing repeated physical work often uses repeated words or phrases to mirror that repetition.
- 23rd July 1983State whether questions about a character's feelings are more likely to appear for a fiction extract or a factual non-fiction extract.
- 24th July 1983Round 17.68 to the nearest whole number.
- 25th July 1983Which is better value: 3 apples for 90p, or 5 apples for 1.40 pounds?
- 26th July 1983Convert 3.6 km to metres.
- 27th July 198390 - 5_ = 38, where the underscore is the missing units digit of the two-digit number 5_. Find the missing digit.
- 28th July 1983Name a quadrilateral with four equal sides and four right angles.
- 29th July 1983On the cylinder in the previous question, the liquid level is 2 divisions above the 100 ml mark. What is the volume of liquid?
- 30th July 1983True or False: on a conversion graph that passes through the origin, doubling the value on one axis always doubles the corresponding value on the other axis.
- 31st July 1983A sequence begins 2, 6, 10, 14, ... Find the 25th term.