Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
May 1996 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1996Complete the analogy: Key is to lock as password is to ___.
- 2nd May 1996True or False: in the extract, Amara opens the office door herself.
- 3rd May 1996Explain why a writer might choose to summarise ten years in one sentence but spend a whole paragraph describing a single afternoon.
- 4th May 1996"The team's performance was (1)_______ disappointing, given how well they had trained." Choose the best word: A) mildly B) bitterly C) somewhat
- 5th May 1996Explain why a writer might show a character's feelings through their actions, such as picking up a spade, rather than stating directly how they feel.
- 6th May 1996Choose the correct connective: 'Priya trained for the race every morning before school; ___, she finished in the top three.' A) however B) meanwhile C) consequently
- 7th May 1996Choose the correct word: "There has been a considerable (1)_______ of rainfall this month." A) amount B) number
- 8th May 1996True or False: Jack is moving when he hears the floorboard creak.
- 9th May 1996'Elliot dragged the trunk...' Suggest one reason the writer chose 'dragged' instead of 'carried' to describe this action.
- 10th May 1996Three of these words are synonyms; find the odd one out: cautious, careful, wary, careless.
- 11th May 1996Find 99% of 400 using a quick mental shortcut.
- 12th May 1996Work out 3 - 10.
- 13th May 1996Is 522 divisible by 3?
- 14th May 1996A compound shape is made from a 9 cm by 6 cm rectangle with a 3 cm by 2 cm rectangle removed from one corner. Find its area.
- 15th May 1996A cuboid measures 4 cm by 3 cm by 5 cm. Find its volume.
- 16th May 1996A coach travels 150 miles at an average speed of 50 mph. How long does the journey take?
- 17th May 1996True or False: in a Venn diagram, the region where two circles overlap should be counted twice when finding the total number in either set.
- 18th May 1996A function machine has the rule 'add 6, then multiply by 2'. Find the output for an input of 5.
- 19th May 1996Share 45 pounds in the ratio 2:3.
- 20th May 1996x = 5 and y = 2. Work out the value of 3x - y.
- 21st May 1996A pictogram key shows one symbol = 5 pupils. A bar for Year 5 shows 6 full symbols. How many Year 5 pupils are represented?
- 22nd May 1996Three consecutive whole numbers add up to 72. Form an equation using n for the smallest number, and solve it to find the three numbers.
- 23rd May 1996A ribbon 84cm long is cut in the ratio 4:3. Find the length of the shorter piece.
- 24th May 1996A rope 18m long is cut into 3 equal pieces, then one of those pieces is cut in half. How long is one of the smallest pieces?
- 25th May 1996Find 3/8 of 64.
- 26th May 1996A shop has 53 apples and 38 oranges. How many more apples than oranges does it have?
- 27th May 1996Find the mode of this data set: 2, 5, 5, 3, 5, 8, 2.
- 28th May 1996Convert 7/10 to a percentage.
- 29th May 1996What is the value of the digit 6 in the number 67,204?
- 30th May 1996Write 29/8 as a mixed number.
- 31st May 1996Tom has 80 pounds. He spends 30% of it on a jacket, then 1/4 of what remains on a book. How much does he have left?