Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
August 2010 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in August 2010, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in August 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2010What does the phrase 'seemed impossibly loud' suggest about the chair scraping, compared with how loud it would normally seem?
- 2nd August 2010Why might a playscript use short, clipped lines of dialogue between two characters rather than longer speeches?
- 3rd August 2010Choose the correct word: "She kept a neat drawer full of pens, envelopes and other (1)_______." (stationary/stationery)
- 4th August 2010What had Theo promised, according to Ellie's line?
- 5th August 2010'The garden basked cheerfully in the sunshine, as if it, too, shared in the family's good news.' Does this description match or contrast with the good mood mentioned? Explain your answer.
- 6th August 2010Complete the sentence: "The museum's dinosaur exhibit was fascinating; (1)_______, its gift shop was surprisingly small." A) moreover B) in contrast C) therefore
- 7th August 2010Complete the gap: 'The children waited (1)_______ for the bell to ring.' A) impatiently B) impatient C) impatience
- 8th August 2010What does the writer suggest would happen to fruits and vegetables without bee pollination?
- 9th August 2010In the number 6,732, what is the value of the digit 7?
- 10th August 2010Two jars of sweets are in the ratio 4 : 9. The larger jar has 25 more sweets than the smaller jar. How many sweets are in the smaller jar?
- 11th August 2010List all the factors of 30.
- 12th August 2010A charity raises 840 pounds, shared equally between 5 projects. How much does each project receive?
- 13th August 2010A carton holds 750 ml of juice. How many cm^3 is this?
- 14th August 2010A straight line is divided into two angles by a single ray. One angle is 106 degrees and the other is x degrees. Find x.
- 15th August 2010A shop reduces a 15.00 pound jacket by 3.25 pounds. What is the new price?
- 16th August 2010A bag contains only red and blue counters. The probability of picking red is 2/5. What is the probability of picking blue?
- 17th August 2010Using the formula A = s x s, find A when s = 7.
- 18th August 2010A pupil scores 65, 72 and 80 on three tests. What score is needed on a fourth test for the mean of all four to be 75?
- 19th August 2010A graph shows a car uses a 50-litre tank of fuel to travel 400km at a steady rate. How far can it travel on 20 litres?
- 20th August 2010A model car is built at a scale of 1:20. If the real car is 4m long, how long is the model, in cm?
- 21st August 2010Tom is older than Sam. Sam is older than Priya. Is Tom older than Priya?
- 22nd August 2010Calculate: 12.6 + 5.75.
- 23rd August 2010In a magic square, every row, column and diagonal adds up to 15. The grid is: Row 1: 8, a, 6. Row 2: 3, 5, 7. Row 3: 4, 9, b. Find a and b.
- 24th August 2010Order these numbers from smallest to largest: -6, 3, -2, -9.
- 25th August 2010A baker makes 96 rolls. She sells half in the morning, then a quarter of what remains in the afternoon. How many rolls are left at the end of the day?
- 26th August 2010The nth term of a sequence is 3n + 2. Find the 5th term.
- 27th August 2010Convert 2.5 kilograms to grams.
- 28th August 2010Convert 9/20 to a percentage.
- 29th August 2010Order these decimals from smallest to largest: 0.6, 0.56, 0.605, 0.65.
- 30th August 2010Find 3/4 of 48.
- 31st August 2010Decrease 240 by 15%.