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July 2012 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in July 2012, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in July 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2012'The scheme has cut short car journeys by a fifth in its first year.' According to this sentence, by how much have short car journeys fallen?
- 2nd July 2012Explain what would change in meaning between 'My sister who lives in Leeds is a doctor' and 'My sister, who lives in Leeds, is a doctor', assuming the speaker has more than one sister.
- 3rd July 2012'children breathe them in on their way to class' - what effect does mentioning children specifically have on the reader?
- 4th July 2012Convert to direct speech: David said that he had lost his keys the day before.
- 5th July 2012Add the correct suffix, applying the doubling rule: 'run' + '-ing' = ?
- 6th July 2012Find the misspelled word: 'It was definately the best match of the season.'
- 7th July 2012Why might a writer choose to give a specific figure, such as 'almost a third', rather than simply saying polytunnels 'save energy'?
- 8th July 2012Rephrase the idiom "under the weather" in plain words, as used in: "Maya stayed home from school because she was feeling a little under the weather."
- 9th July 2012Explain the difference between a simile and a metaphor, using an example of each.
- 10th July 2012According to the extract, what two examples of material can be pulped to make paper?
- 11th July 2012True or False: Extract B is written mainly to entertain the reader with a story.
- 12th July 2012Explain why finishing a story with the character waking up to find it had all been a dream is usually a weak ending.
- 13th July 2012True or False: a poem describing repeated physical work often uses repeated words or phrases to mirror that repetition.
- 14th July 2012State whether questions about a character's feelings are more likely to appear for a fiction extract or a factual non-fiction extract.
- 15th July 2012A shop's till shows a bill of 179.40 pounds for 6 identical items. Estimate the price of one item by rounding the total to the nearest 10 pounds first.
- 16th July 2012A 2-litre bottle of squash costs 3.00 pounds and a 3-litre bottle costs 4.20 pounds. Which is better value per litre?
- 17th July 2012Convert 3.6 km to metres.
- 18th July 201290 - 5_ = 38, where the underscore is the missing units digit of the two-digit number 5_. Find the missing digit.
- 19th July 2012Name a quadrilateral with four equal sides and four right angles.
- 20th July 2012On the cylinder in the previous question, the liquid level is 2 divisions above the 100 ml mark. What is the volume of liquid?
- 21st July 2012A conversion graph shows that 10 miles is equal to 16 km. How many km is 5 miles?
- 22nd July 2012A sequence begins 2, 6, 10, 14, ... Find the 25th term.
- 23rd July 2012Three friends share a bill in the ratio 2:3:5. If the total bill is 60 pounds, how much does the friend with the largest share pay?
- 24th July 2012A journey of 245km is covered at an average speed of 70km/h. How long does the journey take?
- 25th July 2012Find 5% of 220.
- 26th July 2012Share 60 pounds in the ratio 1:3.
- 27th July 2012Solve: 4x - 5 = 19.
- 28th July 2012A square has an area of 49 square cm. Find the length of one side.
- 29th July 2012What is half of 74?
- 30th July 2012A model car is built at a scale of 1:20. If the real car is 4 metres long, how long is the model in cm?
- 31st July 2012I am a three-digit number. My hundreds digit is 4. My units digit is 3 more than my hundreds digit. My tens digit is 0. What number am I?