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August 2003 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in August 2003, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in August 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2003Explain why a writer might choose to summarise ten years in one sentence but spend a whole paragraph describing a single afternoon.
- 2nd August 2003"The team's performance was (1)_______ disappointing, given how well they had trained." Choose the best word: A) mildly B) bitterly C) somewhat
- 3rd August 2003Explain 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.
- 4th August 2003Choose the correct connective: 'Priya trained for the race every morning before school; ___, she finished in the top three.' A) however B) meanwhile C) consequently
- 5th August 2003Choose the correct word: "There has been a considerable (1)_______ of rainfall this month." A) amount B) number
- 6th August 2003True or False: Jack is moving when he hears the floorboard creak.
- 7th August 2003'Elliot dragged the trunk...' Suggest one reason the writer chose 'dragged' instead of 'carried' to describe this action.
- 8th August 2003Three of these words are synonyms; find the odd one out: cautious, careful, wary, careless.
- 9th August 2003Find 40% of 150 using 10% as a building block.
- 10th August 2003Work out -6 + 9.
- 11th August 2003Which of these numbers is NOT divisible by 9: 342, 630, 451?
- 12th August 2003A cross-shaped tile is made from a 12 cm by 4 cm rectangle and a 4 cm by 12 cm rectangle overlapping at their centres, where the overlapping square is 4 cm by 4 cm. Find the total area of the cross.
- 13th August 2003A cuboid measures 4 cm by 3 cm by 5 cm. Find its volume.
- 14th August 2003A runner covers 100 m in 20 seconds. Work out his speed in metres per second.
- 15th August 2003A two-way table for 60 pupils shows 35 study French and 32 study Spanish, with 10 studying both. How many pupils study neither language?
- 16th August 2003Solve: 2x - 3 = 11.
- 17th August 2003Share 45 pounds in the ratio 2:3.
- 18th August 2003x = 5 and y = 2. Work out the value of 3x - y.
- 19th August 2003A pictogram key shows one symbol = 5 pupils. A bar for Year 5 shows 6 full symbols. How many Year 5 pupils are represented?
- 20th August 2003Three consecutive whole numbers add up to 72. Form an equation using n for the smallest number, and solve it to find the three numbers.
- 21st August 2003A ribbon 84cm long is cut in the ratio 4:3. Find the length of the shorter piece.
- 22nd August 2003A 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?
- 23rd August 2003Find 3/8 of 64.
- 24th August 2003A shop has 53 apples and 38 oranges. How many more apples than oranges does it have?
- 25th August 2003Find the mode of this data set: 2, 5, 5, 3, 5, 8, 2.
- 26th August 2003Convert 7/10 to a percentage.
- 27th August 2003What is the value of the digit 6 in the number 67,204?
- 28th August 2003Write 29/8 as a mixed number.
- 29th August 2003Tom 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?
- 30th August 2003Work out 12.6 divided by 0.3.
- 31st August 2003A pictogram shows that one symbol represents 4 pupils. If a row has 3 and a half symbols, how many pupils does that represent?