Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
August 2005 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in August 2005, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in August 2005
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2005Three 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?
- 2nd August 2005A cuboid has a square base of side 30 cm and a height of 0.5 m. Find its volume in cm^3.
- 3rd August 2005A recipe requires flour and sugar in the ratio 5:2. If 250g of flour is used, how much sugar is needed?
- 4th August 2005Round 6,847 to the nearest hundred.
- 5th August 2005Work out 7.2 divided by 0.6.
- 6th August 2005Write 7:15pm using the 24-hour clock.
- 7th August 2005Multiply 8 by 6.
- 8th August 2005What is 6 less than 71?
- 9th August 2005A trader buys a batch of toys for 250 pounds in total and sells them all for 325 pounds. Find the percentage profit.
- 10th August 2005Find the range of this list: 12, 4, 18, 7, 15.
- 11th August 2005An allotment has an area of 84 square metres. 7/12 of it is planted with vegetables. How many square metres are planted with vegetables?
- 12th August 2005A pictogram shows that each full symbol represents 4 books. The row for Year 5 has 3 full symbols and one half symbol. How many books does Year 5 have?
- 13th August 2005Find the next number: 5, 10, 9, 18, 17, 34, ...
- 14th August 2005A rectangle has an area of 56 cm^2 and a width of 7cm. Find its length.
- 15th August 2005A 500 ml bottle of juice costs 1.20 pounds. A 2 litre bottle costs 4.00 pounds. Which is better value per litre?
- 16th August 200545 pencils are shared equally among 7 students, each getting as many whole pencils as possible. How many pencils does each student get, and how many are left over?
- 17th August 2005A coach leaves at 23:10 and the journey takes 3 hours 30 minutes. What time does it arrive?
- 18th August 2005Shape 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?
- 19th August 2005Example 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?
- 20th August 2005Work out 2/5 + 1/4, giving your answer as a single fraction.
- 21st August 2005What is 0.6 + 0.35?
- 22nd August 2005Choose the word most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to ROBUST: A) Frail B) Strong C) Healthy D) Large E) Active
- 23rd August 2005HAMMER is to CARPENTER as SCALPEL is to ?
- 24th August 2005What is the smallest common multiple of 4 and 6?
- 25th August 2005A 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?
- 26th August 2005Which sentence is correctly punctuated: 'Its a shame the trip was cancelled' or 'It's a shame the trip was cancelled'?
- 27th August 2005Three of these words are close in meaning to 'brave' and one is not: courageous, timid, fearless, daring. Identify the odd one out.
- 28th August 2005Move one letter from the word HEART to the front of the word AT, to leave two new real words. What are they?
- 29th August 2005In a matrix analogy, a small black circle is to a large black circle as a small white square is to what?
- 30th August 2005Three of these words are close in meaning to 'cautious' and one is not: wary, careful, reckless, guarded. Identify the odd one out.
- 31st August 2005Share 84 pounds between two people in the ratio 3:4, then the person with the larger share spends 15% of their share. How much do they have left?