Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
January 2006 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in January 2006, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in January 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2006True or False: according to the extract, Noah gives up building sandcastles after this happens.
- 2nd January 2006Choose the correct word: 'The dog wagged ___ tail.' A) its B) it's
- 3rd January 2006Explain the difference between "imply" and "infer", using each in a short sentence.
- 4th January 2006Explain in one sentence why an unexplained sound, like a creaking floorboard, can create tension in a story.
- 5th January 2006Explain in one sentence why the writer chooses to describe the trunk's contents as 'only a single folded letter' rather than listing several objects.
- 6th January 2006In the sentence 'The detective's account was accurate', give a word that means the OPPOSITE of 'accurate'.
- 7th January 2006Explain why finding 10% of an amount is a useful first step for finding many other percentages mentally.
- 8th January 2006Work out -5 - 4.
- 9th January 2006Is 522 divisible by 3?
- 10th January 2006A patio is L-shaped, made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 1 m rectangle removed from a corner. Find its area.
- 11th January 2006An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Find the remaining area.
- 12th January 2006A walker covers 9 km in 2 hours 15 minutes. Work out her average speed in km/h.
- 13th January 2006A two-way table shows 40 pupils. 22 are in Year 5 and the rest are in Year 6. How many are in Year 6?
- 14th January 2006A function machine has the rule 'subtract 7, then divide by 3'. If the output is 4, find the input.
- 15th January 2006In a bag of 40 sweets, 3/8 are red. How many sweets are red?
- 16th January 2006Simplify 6a + 4a - a.
- 17th January 2006A bar chart shows 4 classes with 28, 30, 26 and 32 pupils. Find the mean class size.
- 18th January 2006A rectangle has length (2x + 1) cm and width (x + 3) cm. Its perimeter is 38 cm. Form and solve an equation to find x.
- 19th January 2006A recipe uses flour and butter in the ratio 3:1. If 45g of butter is used, how much flour is needed?
- 20th January 2006A path is 2.4m wide and 15m long. Find its area.
- 21st January 2006Find 15% of 60.
- 22nd January 2006A florist has 100 stems and makes bunches of 7 stems each, selling only complete bunches. How many complete bunches can she make?
- 23rd January 2006A bar chart shows 5 pupils scored a 'red' vote, 8 scored 'blue', and 3 scored 'green'. How many pupils voted in total?
- 24th January 2006Order these from smallest to largest: 0.6, 3/4, 55%.
- 25th January 2006What is the largest four-digit number that can be made using the digits 2, 8, 5 and 1 exactly once?
- 26th January 2006Find 5/8 of 96.
- 27th January 2006A tank contains 500 litres of water. Half of the water is drained, then 40% of what remains is drained again, then 45 litres are added back. How much water is in the tank now?
- 28th January 2006Work out 7.25 + 3.6 + 0.85.
- 29th January 2006Find the mode of this data set: 3, 5, 5, 7, 8, 5, 2.
- 30th January 2006Find the next two terms in the sequence: 5, 9, 13, 17, ...
- 31st January 2006Simplify the ratio 15 : 20 to its simplest form.