Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
August 1996 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1996State whether inference questions (working out something not directly stated) are more commonly associated with fiction extracts or with straightforward factual non-fiction extracts.
- 2nd August 1996How many lines are quoted in 'The apple tree empties its pockets of red and gold, / tired now, having given everything it had'?
- 3rd August 1996Choose the correct word: 'There were (fewer / less) students in the class today.'
- 4th August 1996Give the correct sign-off for a formal letter that began "Dear Sir/Madam,".
- 5th August 1996True or False: Extract B includes a character whose feelings the reader must infer.
- 6th August 1996Complete the gap: 'Although the museum was due to close, the curator (1)_______ the visitors to stay a few minutes longer.'
- 7th August 1996A company's profit falls from 250,000 pounds to 220,000 pounds. Express the fall as a percentage decrease of the original profit.
- 8th August 1996A journey of 320 km is split into two parts in the ratio 3 : 5. Given that 1/4 of the shorter part is on a motorway, how many km of the journey are on a motorway?
- 9th August 1996A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Calculate its area.
- 10th August 1996The difference between two people's ages is 6 years. In 10 years' time, what will the difference between their ages be?
- 11th August 1996Point D is at (1, 4). Translate D by 2 right and 3 down. Write down the new coordinates.
- 12th August 1996Three buses depart Sycamore Road at 08:10, 08:35 and 09:00. Which is the latest one that Priya can catch if she must depart by 08:40 at the latest?
- 13th August 1996Class X has a mean test score of 62 and a range of 30. Class Y has a mean test score of 62 and a range of 12. Compare the two classes' scores in one sentence.
- 14th August 1996Find the nth term rule for the sequence 3, 6, 9, 12, ...
- 15th August 1996A pupil has 10 minutes left and 6 unanswered questions. Roughly how long can they spend on each remaining question?
- 16th August 1996Find the nth term of the decreasing sequence 20, 17, 14, 11, ...
- 17th August 1996A factory makes 480 toys on Monday and 25% more on Tuesday. How many toys does it make on Tuesday?
- 18th August 1996Solve: x + 12 = 30.
- 19th August 1996A car travels 180 miles using 6 gallons of fuel. How many miles does it travel per gallon?
- 20th August 1996Share 84 pounds in the ratio 3:4.
- 21st August 1996What is 88 / 11?
- 22nd August 1996Layla saves 3 pounds a week. How much has she saved after 8 weeks?
- 23rd August 1996A triangle has angles of 90 degrees and 35 degrees. What is the third angle?
- 24th August 1996Simplify 10/15 fully.
- 25th August 1996What is 15 more than 39?
- 26th August 1996Find the missing term in this sequence: 3, 7, 13, 21, [], 43.
- 27th August 1996A car travels 45 miles in the first hour and 38 miles in the second hour. It then has 150 miles left to travel. What is the total length of the journey?
- 28th August 1996Simplify 18/24 fully.
- 29th August 1996A model plane is built to a scale of 1 : 48. The wingspan of the real plane is 14.4 m. Calculate the wingspan of the model, in centimetres.
- 30th August 1996A cube has a volume of 125 cm^3. Find the length of one edge.
- 31st August 1996A price of 60 pounds is increased by 30%. Work out the new price.