Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
January 2005 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in January 2005, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in January 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2005Correct the spelling error: 'It was definately the best film I had ever seen.'
- 2nd January 2005'Streetlights blink awake one by one.' Which word gives the streetlights a human quality?
- 3rd January 2005True or False: it is always best to choose the first prompt listed on the paper without reading the others.
- 4th January 2005Where should the apostrophe go in 'the students results' (referring to the results belonging to several students)?
- 5th January 2005True or False: A poem written in four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme has an irregular, unpredictable structure.
- 6th January 2005Explain the difference in connotation between 'thrifty' and 'stingy', two words for someone careful with money.
- 7th January 2005'The train stitches the dark countryside together.' Which word is the metaphor's key verb, borrowed from sewing?
- 8th January 2005Why might a persuasive writer deliberately choose a word with a strong negative connotation when describing the opposing side of an argument?
- 9th January 2005Identify the word class of 'garden' in the sentence 'They plan to garden every weekend'.
- 10th January 2005State the main difference between persuasive writing and discursive writing.
- 11th January 2005True or False: a poem written from the point of view of a single character, using 'I', is written in the first person.
- 12th January 2005Correct the comma splice: 'The bell rang, everyone stood up.'
- 13th January 2005State whether inference questions (working out something not directly stated) are more commonly associated with fiction extracts or with straightforward factual non-fiction extracts.
- 14th January 2005A poem describing a busy harvest uses short, quick lines, then switches to longer, slower lines once the orchard is described as empty. Give one reason a poet might do this.
- 15th January 2005Choose the correct word: 'We have (fewer / less) time than we thought.'
- 16th January 2005A pupil writes a persuasive letter to a local council. Which paragraph should generally state the reason for writing: the opening or the closing paragraph?
- 17th January 2005In Extract A, what does Grandad do every year at dusk?
- 18th January 2005Complete the gap: 'Although the museum was due to close, the curator (1)_______ the visitors to stay a few minutes longer.'
- 19th January 2005A company's profit falls from 250,000 pounds to 220,000 pounds. Express the fall as a percentage decrease of the original profit.
- 20th January 2005A 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?
- 21st January 2005A cube has edges of length 5 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 22nd January 2005Two cousins' ages add up to 25, and one is 3 years older than the other. Find the older cousin's age.
- 23rd January 2005A point G is reflected in the x-axis to give the image (7, -3). What were the original coordinates of G?
- 24th January 2005A cinema showing starts at 22:40 and lasts 2 hours 5 minutes. At what time, using the 24-hour clock, does it finish?
- 25th January 2005Class 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.
- 26th January 2005Find the nth term rule for the sequence 3, 6, 9, 12, ...
- 27th January 2005A pupil has 10 minutes left and 6 unanswered questions. Roughly how long can they spend on each remaining question?
- 28th January 2005Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 29th January 2005A survey of 60 pupils found 24 chose football and 18 chose swimming as their favourite sport, and the rest chose athletics. How many chose athletics?
- 30th January 2005Solve: 3y = 27.
- 31st January 2005A ribbon 3.6m long is cut into pieces 0.4m long. How many pieces can be cut?