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April 2012 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in April 2012, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in April 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2012'Streetlights blink awake one by one.' Which word gives the streetlights a human quality?
- 2nd April 2012An opening-line prompt begins: 'Maya had never been so scared in her life.' Name one detail a continuation must stay consistent with.
- 3rd April 2012Choose the grammatically correct subjunctive form: 'If I (was / were) taller, I would join the basketball team.'
- 4th April 2012True or False: A poem written in four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme has an irregular, unpredictable structure.
- 5th April 2012Explain the difference in connotation between 'thrifty' and 'stingy', two words for someone careful with money.
- 6th April 2012'The train stitches the dark countryside together.' Which word is the metaphor's key verb, borrowed from sewing?
- 7th April 2012Why might a persuasive writer deliberately choose a word with a strong negative connotation when describing the opposing side of an argument?
- 8th April 2012Add the missing comma: 'After finishing his homework Tom went outside to play.'
- 9th April 2012Explain why a specific example is more persuasive than a vague general statement.
- 10th April 2012True or False: a poem written from the point of view of a single character, using 'I', is written in the first person.
- 11th April 2012Correct the comma splice: 'The bell rang, everyone stood up.'
- 12th April 2012Which genre is being described: 'A short piece that presents facts, uses headings, and aims to inform the reader about a topic'?
- 13th April 2012A poem describing a busy harvest uses short, quick lines, then switches to longer, slower lines once the orchard is described as empty. Give one reason a poet might do this.
- 14th April 2012Choose the correct word: 'We have (fewer / less) time than we thought.'
- 15th April 2012A pupil writes a persuasive letter to a local council. Which paragraph should generally state the reason for writing: the opening or the closing paragraph?
- 16th April 2012In Extract A, what does Grandad do every year at dusk?
- 17th April 2012Complete the gap: 'The path grew steadily (1)_______ as they climbed higher up the hillside.'
- 18th April 2012A town's population of 8000 increases by 5%. Work out the new population.
- 19th April 2012A bag contains 60 marbles. 1/4 of them are red, and the rest are shared between blue and green marbles in the ratio 2 : 3. How many green marbles are there?
- 20th April 2012A cube has edges of length 5 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 21st April 2012Five years ago, Ben was 9. How old is he now?
- 22nd April 2012Write down the coordinates of the point 4 units to the right and 3 units up from the origin.
- 23rd April 2012Using the timetable in the previous question, how long does the train wait at Bilton?
- 24th April 2012Team A's scores have a range of 12. Team B's scores have a range of 5. Which team's scores are more consistent?
- 25th April 2012Find the next two terms of the sequence 6, 11, 16, 21, ...
- 26th April 2012In a multiple-choice question with 5 options, you can immediately rule out 2 as clearly too large. If you then had to guess, has your chance of guessing correctly gone up or down, and to what fraction?
- 27th April 2012Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 28th April 2012A survey of 60 pupils found 24 chose football and 18 chose swimming as their favourite sport, and the rest chose athletics. How many chose athletics?
- 29th April 2012Solve: 3y = 27.
- 30th April 2012A ribbon 3.6m long is cut into pieces 0.4m long. How many pieces can be cut?