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July 1997 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day

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July 1997

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 5-6

Every sheet in July 1997

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st July 1997Every senior pupil helps run the assembly. No pupil who helps run the assembly is late for registration. Priya is a senior pupil. What must be true about Priya?
  2. 2nd July 1997Six runners finish a race. Priya finishes before Quinn. Quinn finishes before Reuben. Sara finishes before Priya. Who finishes first?
  3. 3rd July 1997In this code, each letter's alphabet position is doubled, then 1 is subtracted. If the code for CAB is 5-1-3, what is the code for FED, using the same rule? A) 12-10-8 B) 11-9-7 C) 11-10-7 D) 10-9-8 E) 11-9-8
  4. 4th July 1997A=7, B=14, C=2, D=21, E=3. Work out B / A. Which letter has this value?
  5. 5th July 1997If the code for MOUSE is OQWUG, what is the code for RIVER, using the same rule? A) TKXGT B) TKXGU C) SKXGT D) TJXGT E) TKWGT
  6. 6th July 1997(SCARE) (GO). Which letter moves from the end of the first word to the front of the second? A) S B) C C) A D) R E) E
  7. 7th July 1997True or False: In the sentence 'Reluctantly, Sam handed over his last sweet', Sam gave the sweet away happily.
  8. 8th July 1997Explain in one sentence why the writer chooses to describe Amara's silence rather than having her shout.
  9. 9th July 1997'The Ferris wheel stood frozen against the darkening sky.' What does 'frozen' suggest about the Ferris wheel?
  10. 10th July 1997Using the verb 'create', what word class would you expect 'creation' to be, and what would it mean?
  11. 11th July 1997'She was over the moon when she heard she had passed the exam.' What does 'over the moon' mean?
  12. 12th July 1997According to the extract, what change is credited with the rise in nesting pairs?
  13. 13th July 1997Explain why 'get' might feel out of place in an otherwise formal passage that uses words like 'obtain', 'require' and 'therefore'.
  14. 14th July 1997A poem's last stanza returns to an image used in its first stanza. Give one reason a poet might do this.
  15. 15th July 1997A cloze passage introduces "the pupils" in its first sentence. Which pronoun should a later gap use to refer back to them: "he", "she" or "they"?
  16. 16th July 1997Complete the analogy: Silent is to loud as dim is to ___.
  17. 17th July 1997'Through the frosted glass she could make out shapes moving, but no words reached her.' What does this sentence suggest about how much Amara could understand of what was happening inside?
  18. 18th July 1997'The years slipped by quickly after that: the children grew, the shop changed hands twice, and the town spread further along the river.' Is this sentence an example of summarised time or a closely detailed scene? Explain your answer.
  19. 19th July 1997"The children were (1)_______ upset when the trip was cancelled." Choose the word matching "slightly": A) devastated B) disappointed C) heartbroken
  20. 20th July 1997Give one word from the extract that shows Noah did not complain or make a fuss about the sandcastle being destroyed.
  21. 21st July 1997Choose the correct preposition: 'The treasure was hidden ___ the three pirates.' A) between B) among
  22. 22nd July 1997Why is "less" generally considered incorrect in the sentence "There were less cars on the road today"?
  23. 23rd July 1997Why might a writer describe a setting as behaving illogically, such as corridors that multiply, rather than simply describing it as 'a big house'?
  24. 24th July 1997'Elliot dragged the trunk out from behind the water tank, coughing as decades of dust rose around him.' Which word tells you that a very long time had passed since the trunk was last moved?
  25. 25th July 1997Add a prefix to 'patient' to make its antonym.
  26. 26th July 1997Explain why finding 10% of an amount is a useful first step for finding many other percentages mentally.
  27. 27th July 1997Work out -5 - 4.
  28. 28th July 1997State the divisibility rule for 5.
  29. 29th July 1997A patio is L-shaped, made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 1 m rectangle removed from a corner. Find its area.
  30. 30th July 1997A triangle has a base of 10 cm and a height of 6 cm. Find its area.
  31. 31st July 1997A walker covers 9 km in 2 hours 15 minutes. Work out her average speed in km/h.