Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
October 1990 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1990Which 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
- 2nd October 1990If 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
- 3rd October 1990Why is it a problem if a pupil spends eight minutes writing a detailed plan in a 30-minute writing task?
- 4th October 1990Find and correct the single error: 'I recieved a letter from my cousin yesterday.'
- 5th October 1990What type of word (noun, verb, adjective or adverb) is missing in the sentence 'The children played ___ in the garden all afternoon'?
- 6th October 1990In the sentence 'I could not say what drew me back to that house, only that some part of me had never truly left it', is the extract written in first person or third person?
- 7th October 1990'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?
- 8th October 1990Explain 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.
- 9th October 1990'children breathe them in on their way to class' - what effect does mentioning children specifically have on the reader?
- 10th October 1990Convert to direct speech: David said that he had lost his keys the day before.
- 11th October 1990Complete with the correct homophone: 'I can't believe ___ going on holiday tomorrow!' (they are)
- 12th October 1990Find the misspelled word: 'It was definately the best match of the season.'
- 13th October 1990Why might a writer choose to give a specific figure, such as 'almost a third', rather than simply saying polytunnels 'save energy'?
- 14th October 1990Rephrase 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."
- 15th October 1990Explain the difference between a simile and a metaphor, using an example of each.
- 16th October 1990According to the extract, what two examples of material can be pulped to make paper?
- 17th October 1990True or False: Extract B is written mainly to entertain the reader with a story.
- 18th October 1990Explain why finishing a story with the character waking up to find it had all been a dream is usually a weak ending.
- 19th October 1990True or False: a poem describing repeated physical work often uses repeated words or phrases to mirror that repetition.
- 20th October 1990State whether questions about a character's feelings are more likely to appear for a fiction extract or a factual non-fiction extract.
- 21st October 1990Estimate 58 x 21 by rounding each number to 1 significant figure.
- 22nd October 1990A 250 g jar of jam costs 1.50 pounds. Find the price per 100 g.
- 23rd October 1990Convert 3.6 km to metres.
- 24th October 199094 - 3Y = 58, where Y is the missing units digit of the two-digit number 3Y. Find Y.
- 25th October 1990A quadrilateral has angles of 130, 130, 50 and x degrees. Find x.
- 26th October 1990A thermometer has labelled marks at 0 and 10 degrees C, with 5 equal divisions between them. What temperature does each division represent?
- 27th October 1990A litres-to-gallons conversion graph shows 45 litres is equal to 10 gallons. How many litres is 1 gallon?
- 28th October 1990A sequence begins 2, 6, 10, 14, ... Find the 25th term.
- 29th October 1990A 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?
- 30th October 1990A shop sells pencils in packs of 6 for 1.80 pounds. What is the cost of one pencil?
- 31st October 1990Find 20% of 45.