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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.

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January 2006

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 5-6

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.

  1. 1st January 2006True or False: according to the extract, Noah gives up building sandcastles after this happens.
  2. 2nd January 2006Choose the correct word: 'The dog wagged ___ tail.' A) its B) it's
  3. 3rd January 2006Explain the difference between "imply" and "infer", using each in a short sentence.
  4. 4th January 2006Explain in one sentence why an unexplained sound, like a creaking floorboard, can create tension in a story.
  5. 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.
  6. 6th January 2006In the sentence 'The detective's account was accurate', give a word that means the OPPOSITE of 'accurate'.
  7. 7th January 2006Explain why finding 10% of an amount is a useful first step for finding many other percentages mentally.
  8. 8th January 2006Work out -5 - 4.
  9. 9th January 2006Is 522 divisible by 3?
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 12th January 2006A walker covers 9 km in 2 hours 15 minutes. Work out her average speed in km/h.
  13. 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?
  14. 14th January 2006A function machine has the rule 'subtract 7, then divide by 3'. If the output is 4, find the input.
  15. 15th January 2006In a bag of 40 sweets, 3/8 are red. How many sweets are red?
  16. 16th January 2006Simplify 6a + 4a - a.
  17. 17th January 2006A bar chart shows 4 classes with 28, 30, 26 and 32 pupils. Find the mean class size.
  18. 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.
  19. 19th January 2006A recipe uses flour and butter in the ratio 3:1. If 45g of butter is used, how much flour is needed?
  20. 20th January 2006A path is 2.4m wide and 15m long. Find its area.
  21. 21st January 2006Find 15% of 60.
  22. 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?
  23. 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?
  24. 24th January 2006Order these from smallest to largest: 0.6, 3/4, 55%.
  25. 25th January 2006What is the largest four-digit number that can be made using the digits 2, 8, 5 and 1 exactly once?
  26. 26th January 2006Find 5/8 of 96.
  27. 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?
  28. 28th January 2006Work out 7.25 + 3.6 + 0.85.
  29. 29th January 2006Find the mode of this data set: 3, 5, 5, 7, 8, 5, 2.
  30. 30th January 2006Find the next two terms in the sequence: 5, 9, 13, 17, ...
  31. 31st January 2006Simplify the ratio 15 : 20 to its simplest form.