Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
March 1994 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1994
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1994'The lighthouse stands watch over the sleeping bay.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 2nd March 1994Which sentence uses a colon correctly? A) We need: eggs, milk and flour. B) We need three things: eggs, milk and flour.
- 3rd March 1994A mixed-genre paper asks pupils to compare the tone of a fiction extract and a non-fiction extract on a similar subject. What does 'tone' mean in this context?
- 4th March 1994'The wasps hovered like tiny golden thieves.' Name the simile in this line.
- 5th March 1994Choose the correct pronoun: 'The teacher gave the prize to Sam and (I / me).'
- 6th March 1994Name two features you would expect to see in a formal report but would not usually see in a persuasive letter.
- 7th March 1994Why might a mixed-genre paper pair a personal story about swifts with a factual passage about swifts, rather than about two unrelated topics?
- 8th March 1994Explain why, in an open cloze passage with no word bank, checking word class before thinking of an exact word saves time.
- 9th March 1994A 60-pound coat has its price increased by 30%, then the new price is reduced by 30%. Work out the final price, and state whether it is the same as the original 60 pounds.
- 10th March 1994In a class of 30 pupils, 3/5 walk to school. Of the pupils who do not walk, the ratio who cycle to those who are driven is 1 : 3. How many pupils are driven to school?
- 11th March 1994A rectangle has length 7 cm and width 5 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 12th March 1994Tom is 5 years older than Ella. Ella is 9. How old is Tom?
- 13th March 1994Point B is at (-3, 2). Reflect B in the x-axis. Write down the new coordinates.
- 14th March 1994A coach departs 23:45 and the journey takes 40 minutes. At what time, using the 24-hour clock, does it arrive?
- 15th March 1994Eight numbers have a mean of 7. Seven of them are 4, 6, 9, 3, 8, 10 and 5. Work out the eighth number.
- 16th March 1994The nth term of a sequence is 2n + 5. Which term of the sequence is equal to 23?
- 17th March 1994Estimate first, then calculate exactly: roughly what is 198 x 4? Then work out the exact answer.
- 18th March 1994A sequence is formed by doubling the previous term, starting at 3: 3, 6, 12, 24, ... Find the 6th term.
- 19th March 1994A graph shows a plant grows 4cm in week 1, 7cm in week 2 and 5cm in week 3. What is the total growth over the three weeks?
- 20th March 1994A sequence starts at 50, and each term is 6 less than the one before. Find the 4th term.
- 21st March 1994A class of 32 pupils is split into equal groups of 4 for a project. How many groups are there?
- 22nd March 1994Calculate: 504 divided by 8.
- 23rd March 1994What is 12 x 12?
- 24th March 1994A class of 30 pupils is split into groups of 5. How many groups are there?
- 25th March 1994Three angles on a straight line are 55 degrees, 65 degrees and x. What is the value of x?
- 26th March 1994Work out 3/8 + 1/8, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 27th March 1994Divide 108 by 9.
- 28th March 1994Solve for x: x - 7 = 15.
- 29th March 1994A box of 144 pencils is shared equally between 6 classes, and each class then gives away 4 pencils. How many pencils does each class have left?
- 30th March 1994Work out 2/9 + 4/9, giving your answer in its simplest form.
- 31st March 1994A sum of money is shared between Leo and Zara in the ratio 3 : 7. Zara receives 84 pounds more than Leo. How much does Leo receive?