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January 2008 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in January 2008, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in January 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2008A triangle has one angle of 90 degrees and another angle twice the size of the third. Find all three angles.
- 2nd January 2008Express the ratio 2:5 as a fraction of the whole for each part.
- 3rd January 2008What is the value of the digit 5 in the number 258,431?
- 4th January 2008Work out 2.6 x 0.4.
- 5th January 2008A journey starts at 10:50 and takes 55 minutes. What time does it end?
- 6th January 2008What is 7 more than 85?
- 7th January 2008What is a third of 45?
- 8th January 2008A jacket bought for 80 pounds is sold at a loss for 68 pounds. Find the percentage loss.
- 9th January 2008Find the mode of this list: 3, 5, 3, 7, 9, 3, 5.
- 10th January 2008The median of five numbers arranged in order, 9, 14, x, 22, 27, is 18. What is x?
- 11th January 2008Find the median of 3, 8, 5, 8, 2, 9, 6.
- 12th January 2008Find the next number in the sequence: 2, 6, 18, 54, ...
- 13th January 2008Work out 6.4 x 5.
- 14th January 2008A recipe for 4 people needs 300 g of pasta. How much pasta, in kg, is needed for 10 people, keeping the ratio the same?
- 15th January 2008Find 3/8 of 96.
- 16th January 2008A bus journey takes 55 minutes. If the bus leaves at 09:20, what time does it arrive?
- 17th January 2008Shape 1 and Shape 2 are two congruent right-angled triangles, each with a base of 8cm, a height of 3cm and a right angle at the bottom-right corner. Shape 2 is rotated 180 degrees about the midpoint of its hypotenuse and joined so its hypotenuse lies exactly along the hypotenuse of Shape 1, with the shared edge erased. What shape is formed, and what are its dimensions?
- 18th January 2008Example 1: code AW shows a grey square. Example 2: code BW shows a black square. Example 3: code AX shows a grey hexagon. What does code BX show?
- 19th January 2008Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 20th January 2008A jacket priced at 55 pounds is reduced by 20 percent. What is the new price?
- 21st January 2008(UP, DOWN) (HOT, COLD) (WET, ?) Complete the third pair the same way the first two pairs are related.
- 22nd January 2008In the sentence 'The committee's proposal was met with scepticism by several members', what does 'scepticism' suggest about their reaction?
- 23rd January 2008A submarine is at a depth of 45 metres below sea level. It rises by 60 metres. What is its new position, relative to sea level?
- 24th January 2008A tap fills a bucket at a rate of 2 litres every 3 minutes. How many litres are in the bucket after 9 minutes?
- 25th January 2008'The old dog padded softly across the kitchen floor.' What does 'padded' suggest about how the dog moved?
- 26th January 2008Three of these words are close in meaning to 'stern' and one is not: strict, severe, lenient, harsh. Identify the odd one out.
- 27th January 2008Complete the analogy: HAPPY is to SAD as HOT is to what?
- 28th January 2008A cube net has six faces: red, blue, green, yellow, white and black. If red and black end up opposite each other when folded, and blue is opposite white, what is green opposite?
- 29th January 2008'Despite living next door for a decade, the two neighbours had exchanged barely a dozen words.' What does this suggest about the relationship between the two neighbours?
- 30th January 2008A recipe for 8 people uses 320g of pasta. The amount is scaled up for 20 people, then a quarter of the total pasta is used for a starter. How much pasta, in grams, is used for the starter?
- 31st January 2008Choose the correctly spelled word: (a) recieve, (b) receive.