Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
March 2008 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in March 2008, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in March 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2008Why might too much dialogue that simply repeats what has already been described weaken a story?
- 2nd March 2008'He opened his mouth. Nothing came.' Why might the writer have used two very short sentences here instead of one longer sentence?
- 3rd March 2008In the exchange 'MRS OKAFOR: Well? LIAM: (silence) MRS OKAFOR: I'm waiting.', what does Liam's stage direction of '(silence)' suggest about how he is responding?
- 4th March 2008Choose the correct word: "The (1)_______ of the school gave a speech at assembly." (principal/principle)
- 5th March 2008Give one word to describe Theo's likely feeling, based on the fact that he admits his mistake but still pushes back at Ellie.
- 6th March 2008'The old house groaned under the weight of the storm, as though it too longed for the night to end.' What human feeling is given to the house here?
- 7th March 2008Explain the difference in meaning between "consequently" and "nevertheless" when joining two sentences.
- 8th March 2008Complete the gap using the word bank: 'Maya (1)_______ the door quietly behind her.' Word bank: closed, shouted, painted
- 9th March 2008'A single bee will visit hundreds of flowers in one day, transferring pollen from bloom to bloom as it feeds.' What is this process called?
- 10th March 2008Write 'four thousand and eighteen' in figures.
- 11th March 2008Two numbers are in the ratio 5 : 8, and their difference is 21. Find the two numbers.
- 12th March 2008I am a two-digit number, a multiple of 4, and a factor of 60. What could I be?
- 13th March 2008A bakery makes 18 trays of 12 muffins each. How many muffins does it make in total?
- 14th March 2008A jug holds 1.2 litres. How many 150 ml glasses can be completely filled from a full jug?
- 15th March 2008Two straight lines cross at a point. One of the four angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the angle vertically opposite it.
- 16th March 2008Amara has 20 pounds. She buys a t-shirt for 8.99 pounds and a cap for 6.50 pounds. Does she have enough left to buy a 5 pound water bottle? Explain your answer.
- 17th March 2008Put these events in order from least likely to most likely: (a) rolling an even number on a fair dice, (b) picking the ace of spades from a full deck of 52 cards, (c) the sun rising tomorrow.
- 18th March 2008Using the formula C = 4 + 2m from the previous question, work out the cost of a 6-mile taxi journey.
- 19th March 2008The mean of four numbers is 9. Three of the numbers are 6, 8 and 11. Find the fourth number.
- 20th March 2008A distance-time graph shows a cyclist travels 24km in 2 hours at a steady speed. How far do they travel in 5 hours at the same speed?
- 21st March 2008A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of rice. How much rice is needed for 9 people?
- 22nd March 2008In a class of 28 pupils, 16 play netball, 12 play hockey, and 5 play both sports. How many pupils play neither sport?
- 23rd March 2008Calculate: 546 divided by 6.
- 24th March 2008Look at this group of numbers: 16, 25, 36, 44, 49. Which number does not belong?
- 25th March 2008In the number 58,204, what is the value of the digit 8?
- 26th March 2008A class of 32 pupils is split into 4 equal teams. Each team then loses 2 pupils to another activity. How many pupils remain in each team?
- 27th March 2008A function machine takes an input, multiplies it by 4, then adds 3, to give an output of 27. What was the input?
- 28th March 2008A parking meter charges 60p for every 15 minutes. How much does 1 hour of parking cost?
- 29th March 2008A bottle holds 3/8 of a litre of oil. Write this amount as a decimal.
- 30th March 2008Work out 0.36 divided by 6.
- 31st March 2008What is 8 x 9?