Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
November 1988 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1988How many lines are quoted in 'The mountain does not care that my legs are shaking, / it simply waits, patient as stone'?
- 2nd November 1988Why is choosing the most obvious situation for an abstract theme word often a weaker choice than a more specific, personal one?
- 3rd November 1988'The ancient oak, gnarled and twisted, had stood in the field for three hundred years.' 'Gnarled' most likely describes wood that is: A) smooth and straight B) rough, knotted and twisted C) freshly cut D) painted
- 4th November 1988Explain in one sentence why the writer uses a short sentence for 'Somewhere above her, a door handle turned' rather than a longer, more detailed sentence.
- 5th November 1988Rewrite 'Amara was very happy' using 'show, don't tell'.
- 6th November 1988What does the phrase 'seemed impossibly loud' suggest about the chair scraping, compared with how loud it would normally seem?
- 7th November 1988In the line 'SAM: (looking away) I'm fine, honestly.', what does the stage direction suggest about whether Sam is telling the truth?
- 8th November 1988Choose the correct word: "The traffic remained completely (1)_______ for over an hour." (stationary/stationery)
- 9th November 1988What had Theo promised, according to Ellie's line?
- 10th November 1988'The garden basked cheerfully in the sunshine, as if it, too, shared in the family's good news.' Does this description match or contrast with the good mood mentioned? Explain your answer.
- 11th November 1988Complete the sentence: "The museum's dinosaur exhibit was fascinating; (1)_______, its gift shop was surprisingly small." A) moreover B) in contrast C) therefore
- 12th November 1988Complete the gap: 'The children waited (1)_______ for the bell to ring.' A) impatiently B) impatient C) impatience
- 13th November 1988What does the writer suggest would happen to fruits and vegetables without bee pollination?
- 14th November 1988In the number 6,732, what is the value of the digit 7?
- 15th November 1988True or False: to solve a ratio problem given the difference between two shares, you divide the difference by the sum of the ratio parts.
- 16th November 1988Explain why every prime number greater than 2 must be an odd number.
- 17th November 1988A bakery makes 18 trays of 12 muffins each. How many muffins does it make in total?
- 18th November 1988A jug holds 1.2 litres. How many 150 ml glasses can be completely filled from a full jug?
- 19th November 1988A straight line is divided into two angles by a single ray. One angle is 106 degrees and the other is x degrees. Find x.
- 20th November 1988A cafe sells coffee at 2.80 pounds. On Tuesdays, every second coffee is half price. Work out the total cost of 2 coffees on a Tuesday.
- 21st November 1988A spinner has 4 equal sections: red, blue, green and yellow. What is the probability of NOT landing on red?
- 22nd November 1988Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 2 and t = 3.
- 23rd November 1988A pupil scores 65, 72 and 80 on three tests. What score is needed on a fourth test for the mean of all four to be 75?
- 24th November 1988A graph shows a car uses a 50-litre tank of fuel to travel 400km at a steady rate. How far can it travel on 20 litres?
- 25th November 1988A model car is built at a scale of 1:20. If the real car is 4m long, how long is the model, in cm?
- 26th November 1988Tom is older than Sam. Sam is older than Priya. Is Tom older than Priya?
- 27th November 1988Calculate: 12.6 + 5.75.
- 28th November 1988In a magic square, every row, column and diagonal adds up to 15. The grid is: Row 1: 8, a, 6. Row 2: 3, 5, 7. Row 3: 4, 9, b. Find a and b.
- 29th November 1988Order these numbers from smallest to largest: -6, 3, -2, -9.
- 30th November 1988A baker makes 96 rolls. She sells half in the morning, then a quarter of what remains in the afternoon. How many rolls are left at the end of the day?