Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
May 1998 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in May 1998, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in May 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1998A florist has 150 roses to pack into bunches of 8. How many full bunches can she make, and how many roses are left over?
- 2nd May 1998Order these from smallest to largest: 0.4, 1/2, 35%.
- 3rd May 1998What is 144 / 12?
- 4th May 1998Three boxes are labelled Apples, Oranges and Mixed, but all the labels are wrong. If you can draw only one fruit from one box, from which box should you draw to work out the true contents of all three boxes, and why?
- 5th May 1998A cuboid has a square base of side 30 cm and a height of 0.5 m. Find its volume in cm^3.
- 6th May 1998A recipe requires flour and sugar in the ratio 5:2. If 250g of flour is used, how much sugar is needed?
- 7th May 1998Round 6,847 to the nearest hundred.
- 8th May 1998Work out 7.2 divided by 0.6.
- 9th May 1998Write 7:15pm using the 24-hour clock.
- 10th May 1998Multiply 8 by 6.
- 11th May 1998What is 6 less than 71?
- 12th May 1998A trader buys a batch of toys for 250 pounds in total and sells them all for 325 pounds. Find the percentage profit.
- 13th May 1998Find the range of this list: 12, 4, 18, 7, 15.
- 14th May 1998A parallelogram has a base of 14 cm and a height of 6 cm. What is its area?
- 15th May 1998Find the median of 3, 8, 5, 8, 2, 9, 6.
- 16th May 1998Find the next number in the sequence: 2, 6, 18, 54, ...
- 17th May 1998Work out 6.4 x 5.
- 18th May 1998A 500 ml bottle of juice costs 1.20 pounds. A 2 litre bottle costs 4.00 pounds. Which is better value per litre?
- 19th May 1998Find 3/8 of 96.
- 20th May 1998A coach leaves at 23:10 and the journey takes 3 hours 30 minutes. What time does it arrive?
- 21st May 1998Shape 1 is a square of side 4cm. Shape 2 is a right-angled triangle with legs 4cm and 4cm, right angle at the bottom-left corner. Its 4cm base (the marked edge) is joined along the top edge of the square, triangle pointing up. What is the total height of the combined shape?
- 22nd May 1998Example 1: code 2F shows 2 dots, unshaded. Example 2: code 4F shows 4 dots, unshaded. Example 3: code 2G shows 2 dots, shaded black. What does code 4G show?
- 23rd May 1998Using the key F=6, G=13, H=2, I=9, J=7, work out G - F. Which letter has this value?
- 24th May 1998Convert 3.75 kg into grams.
- 25th May 1998Choose the correctly spelled word: (a) definately (b) definitely.
- 26th May 1998HAMMER is to CARPENTER as SCALPEL is to ?
- 27th May 1998What is 3 cubed?
- 28th May 1998A school trip costs 12 pounds per pupil, with a discount of 2 pounds per pupil for the first 10 pupils. If exactly 10 pupils go, what is the total cost?
- 29th May 1998Which sentence is correctly punctuated: 'Its a shame the trip was cancelled' or 'It's a shame the trip was cancelled'?
- 30th May 1998Three of these words are close in meaning to 'brave' and one is not: courageous, timid, fearless, daring. Identify the odd one out.
- 31st May 1998Move one letter from the word HEART to the front of the word AT, to leave two new real words. What are they?