Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
September 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1986In the line 'The tide slides in on silver feet', how many lines are quoted?
- 2nd September 1986Complete the sentence with the correct correlative word: "The soup was (1)_______ too salty but also far too thin." A) not only B) either C) neither
- 3rd September 1986Complete the analogy: Chapter is to book as scene is to ___.
- 4th September 1986What does the word 'finally' suggest about how long Amara had been waiting?
- 5th September 1986'She remembered the exact moment the letter arrived: the postman's knock, the crackle of the envelope, the way her hands shook as she opened it.' What signal phrase shows this is a flashback, and why does the sentence slow down here?
- 6th September 1986Rank these three words for anger from mildest to strongest: furious, irritated, angry.
- 7th September 1986What had happened to Noah's sandcastle by the time he noticed it?
- 8th September 1986Choose the correct verb form: 'By the time the bus arrived, the queue ___ around the corner.' A) stretches B) had stretched C) stretch
- 9th September 1986Choose the correct word: "Signing the peace treaty was a (1)_______ moment for both countries." A) historic B) historical
- 10th September 1986What is unusual about the light in the corridors, according to the extract?
- 11th September 1986'the hinges shrieking in protest' - name the technique used here.
- 12th September 1986Give an antonym for 'brave'.
- 13th September 1986Find 40% of 150 using 10% as a building block.
- 14th September 1986Work out -6 + 9.
- 15th September 1986Is 522 divisible by 3?
- 16th September 1986A cross-shaped tile is made from a 12 cm by 4 cm rectangle and a 4 cm by 12 cm rectangle overlapping at their centres, where the overlapping square is 4 cm by 4 cm. Find the total area of the cross.
- 17th September 1986Find the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 7 cm by 4 cm.
- 18th September 1986A runner covers 100 m in 20 seconds. Work out his speed in metres per second.
- 19th September 1986A two-way table for 60 pupils shows 35 study French and 32 study Spanish, with 10 studying both. How many pupils study neither language?
- 20th September 1986Solve: 2x - 3 = 11.
- 21st September 1986Write 7/20 as a decimal.
- 22nd September 1986Solve 3x + 8 = 29.
- 23rd September 1986A bar chart shows a shop sold 35 umbrellas in April and 20 in May. How many more umbrellas were sold in April than May?
- 24th September 1986Solve 4(x + 1) = 2(x + 9).
- 25th September 1986A total bill of 56 pounds is split equally between 4 friends, but one friend also owes an extra 5 pounds for a drink they had alone. Find how much that friend pays in total.
- 26th September 1986Find the perimeter of a square with side length 11cm.
- 27th September 1986Find 1/3 of 27.
- 28th September 1986Team A scored 87 points. Team B scored 59 points. By how many points did Team A win?
- 29th September 1986The mean of four numbers is 10. Three of the numbers are 8, 11 and 9. What is the fourth number?
- 30th September 1986A jug holds 2/5 of a litre of juice. Write this amount as a decimal.