Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
January 1991 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1991
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1991'The museum, previously free to enter, introduced a small charge in 2019.' Give one word from this sentence that means 'brought in or started'.
- 2nd January 1991Explain why a writer discussing a debate like this might choose to present both sides rather than only one.
- 3rd January 1991Why might a writer describe an apology as 'rehearsed' and 'changing' rather than simply saying Leo apologised?
- 4th January 1991'The boy kept his coat on indoors, even by the fire, and answered his aunt's questions without once looking up from his plate.' Suggest a likely feeling and give two pieces of supporting evidence.
- 5th January 1991What is the sea compared to throughout this extract?
- 6th January 1991Explain why a dialogue tag such as 'snapped' changes how a reader should understand an otherwise ordinary-sounding line of speech.
- 7th January 1991Explain in one sentence why the writer compares the filter's cost to a bus fare rather than just giving a price.
- 8th January 1991'Despite the delay, the passengers remained remarkably calm.' What relationship between the two parts of the sentence does 'despite' signal?
- 9th January 1991According to the extract, what has happened to the use of the new cycle routes over time?
- 10th January 1991Rewrite in the passive voice: 'The chef prepared the meal.'
- 11th January 1991Classify this sentence as simple, compound or complex: "The dog barked loudly."
- 12th January 1991Give one word from the extract that means 'able to be measured or shown with evidence'.
- 13th January 1991What does Zara's final line, 'It doesn't matter now', most likely suggest, given everything that came before it?
- 14th January 1991Choose the correct word: "He gave her a genuine (1)_______ on her painting." (complement/compliment)
- 15th January 1991In your own words, summarise the disadvantage of a later school finish mentioned in the extract.
- 16th January 1991'The square hums with a hundred small bargains.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 17th January 1991Convert 5.2 km into metres.
- 18th January 1991A recipe requires 2 eggs, 100 g of butter and 150 g of sugar to serve 5 people. Find the amount of butter needed to serve 15 people.
- 19th January 1991Find a number, other than 1, that is both a square number and a cube number, between 1 and 100.
- 20th January 1991I think of a number, subtract 8, then double the result, to get 24. What was my number?
- 21st January 1991A triangle has angles of 42 and 67 degrees. Find the third angle.
- 22nd January 1991A square-based pyramid has 5 faces. How many of these faces are triangles?
- 23rd January 1991A bar chart shows the number of pets owned by pupils: cats 8, dogs 12, fish 5, rabbits 3. How many pupils in total own one of these pets?
- 24th January 1991An isosceles triangle has a base angle of 72 degrees. Find the other two angles.
- 25th January 1991Two pupils, Leo and Mia, each choose a different drink: juice or water. Leo does not choose water. What does Leo choose?
- 26th January 1991A shape has an interior angle sum of 540 degrees. How many sides does it have?
- 27th January 19919 x 6
- 28th January 1991A field is 120m long. A fence is built along one full length of the field, plus an extra 15m. How long is the fence?
- 29th January 1991Solve: y - 8 = 15.
- 30th January 1991Find 15% of 220.
- 31st January 1991What is half of 96?