Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
April 1998 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in April 1998, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in April 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1998Explain why a writer discussing a debate like this might choose to present both sides rather than only one.
- 2nd April 1998Why might a writer describe an apology as 'rehearsed' and 'changing' rather than simply saying Leo apologised?
- 3rd April 1998'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.
- 4th April 1998What is the sea compared to throughout this extract?
- 5th April 1998Explain why a dialogue tag such as 'snapped' changes how a reader should understand an otherwise ordinary-sounding line of speech.
- 6th April 1998Explain in one sentence why the writer compares the filter's cost to a bus fare rather than just giving a price.
- 7th April 1998'Despite the delay, the passengers remained remarkably calm.' What relationship between the two parts of the sentence does 'despite' signal?
- 8th April 1998According to the extract, what has happened to the use of the new cycle routes over time?
- 9th April 1998Rewrite in the passive voice: 'The chef prepared the meal.'
- 10th April 1998Classify this sentence as simple, compound or complex: "The dog barked loudly."
- 11th April 1998Give one word from the extract that means 'able to be measured or shown with evidence'.
- 12th April 1998What does Zara's final line, 'It doesn't matter now', most likely suggest, given everything that came before it?
- 13th April 1998Add the suffix "-ing" to "swim", applying the doubling rule, and explain why the rule applies.
- 14th April 1998In your own words, summarise the disadvantage of a later school finish mentioned in the extract.
- 15th April 1998'The square hums with a hundred small bargains.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 16th April 1998Convert 5.2 km into metres.
- 17th April 1998Explain why it is important to scale every ingredient in a recipe by the same scale factor.
- 18th April 1998What is 9 squared?
- 19th April 1998A number has 12 added to it, then the result is divided by 4, giving 9. What was the original number?
- 20th April 1998An isosceles triangle has an apex angle of 40 degrees. Find the size of each of the other two, equal, angles.
- 21st April 1998A cuboid has three different rectangular face sizes. How many faces of each size does it have?
- 22nd April 1998A pictogram uses a whole symbol to represent 8 books and shows 3 and a quarter symbols for one class. How many books does this row represent?
- 23rd April 1998An isosceles triangle has a base angle of 72 degrees. Find the other two angles.
- 24th April 1998Four pupils, W, X, Y and Z, each play a different sport. If three of the four pupil-sport pairings are already fixed by clues, how many more clues, at minimum, are needed to be certain of the last pairing?
- 25th April 1998A shape has an interior angle sum of 540 degrees. How many sides does it have?
- 26th April 1998What must be added to 68 to make 100?
- 27th April 1998A field is 120m long. A fence is built along one full length of the field, plus an extra 15m. How long is the fence?
- 28th April 1998Solve: y - 8 = 15.
- 29th April 1998Find 15% of 220.
- 30th April 1998What is half of 96?