Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
July 2005 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in July 2005, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in July 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2005'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.
- 2nd July 2005What is the sea compared to throughout this extract?
- 3rd July 2005Explain why a dialogue tag such as 'snapped' changes how a reader should understand an otherwise ordinary-sounding line of speech.
- 4th July 2005Explain in one sentence why the writer compares the filter's cost to a bus fare rather than just giving a price.
- 5th July 2005'Despite the delay, the passengers remained remarkably calm.' What relationship between the two parts of the sentence does 'despite' signal?
- 6th July 2005According to the extract, what has happened to the use of the new cycle routes over time?
- 7th July 2005Rewrite in the passive voice: 'The chef prepared the meal.'
- 8th July 2005Classify this sentence as simple, compound or complex: "The dog barked loudly."
- 9th July 2005Give one word from the extract that means 'able to be measured or shown with evidence'.
- 10th July 2005What does Zara's final line, 'It doesn't matter now', most likely suggest, given everything that came before it?
- 11th July 2005Choose the correct word: "Pupils are not (1)_______ to bring mobile phones into the exam hall." (allowed/aloud)
- 12th July 2005In your own words, summarise the disadvantage of a later school finish mentioned in the extract.
- 13th July 2005'The square hums with a hundred small bargains.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 14th July 2005Convert 5.2 km into metres.
- 15th July 2005A paint mix uses blue and white paint in the ratio 2 : 3. If 10 litres of blue paint is used, how much white paint is needed?
- 16th July 2005List the first six triangular numbers.
- 17th July 2005A number is divided by 4, then 3 is added, giving a result of 10. What was the original number?
- 18th July 2005Two angles lie on a straight line. One is 2x degrees and the other is 4x degrees. Find x.
- 19th July 2005A cylinder is unfolded into its net. What two shapes make up a cylinder's net?
- 20th July 2005In a bar chart, the tallest bar shows 24 and the shortest shows 9. What is the difference between them?
- 21st July 2005An isosceles triangle has a base angle of 72 degrees. Find the other two angles.
- 22nd July 2005Four friends each own a different colour bike: red, blue, green or yellow. Dan's bike is not red or blue. Ellie's bike is green. Which colour must Dan's bike be?
- 23rd July 2005A shape has an interior angle sum of 540 degrees. How many sides does it have?
- 24th July 2005Write 3/10 as a decimal.
- 25th July 2005A field is 120m long. A fence is built along one full length of the field, plus an extra 15m. How long is the fence?
- 26th July 2005Solve: y - 8 = 15.
- 27th July 2005Find 15% of 220.
- 28th July 2005What is half of 96?
- 29th July 2005A florist has 150 roses to pack into bunches of 8. How many full bunches can she make, and how many roses are left over?
- 30th July 2005Order these from smallest to largest: 0.4, 1/2, 35%.
- 31st July 2005What is 144 / 12?