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October 2012 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in October 2012, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in October 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2012Explain in one sentence why the writer compares the filter's cost to a bus fare rather than just giving a price.
- 2nd October 2012'Despite the delay, the passengers remained remarkably calm.' What relationship between the two parts of the sentence does 'despite' signal?
- 3rd October 2012According to the extract, what has happened to the use of the new cycle routes over time?
- 4th October 2012Rewrite in the passive voice: 'The chef prepared the meal.'
- 5th October 2012Classify this sentence as simple, compound or complex: "The dog barked loudly."
- 6th October 2012Give one word from the extract that means 'able to be measured or shown with evidence'.
- 7th October 2012What does Zara's final line, 'It doesn't matter now', most likely suggest, given everything that came before it?
- 8th October 2012Choose the correct word: "For pudding, we chose a chocolate (1)_______." (desert/dessert)
- 9th October 2012In your own words, summarise the disadvantage of a later school finish mentioned in the extract.
- 10th October 2012'The square hums with a hundred small bargains.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 11th October 2012Convert 5.2 km into metres.
- 12th October 2012A squash drink is mixed in the ratio 1 : 4 (squash to water). How much water is needed for 50 ml of squash?
- 13th October 2012The 5th triangular number is 15. Work out the 6th triangular number.
- 14th October 2012I think of a number, multiply by 3, then subtract 5, and the result is 40. What was my number?
- 15th October 2012An isosceles triangle has one of its two equal base angles equal to 50 degrees. Find the size of the third angle.
- 16th October 2012Use Euler's rule, faces + vertices = edges + 2, to find the number of edges of a solid with 5 faces and 5 vertices.
- 17th October 2012A pictogram key states that one symbol represents 6 cars, and a half symbol represents 3 cars. A row shows 2 full symbols and a half symbol. How many cars does this represent?
- 18th October 2012An isosceles triangle has a base angle of 72 degrees. Find the other two angles.
- 19th October 2012True or False: in a logic grid puzzle, a clue that only rules out one possibility, such as 'X does not like Y', can still be essential to solving the puzzle.
- 20th October 2012A shape has an interior angle sum of 540 degrees. How many sides does it have?
- 21st October 2012144 divided by 12
- 22nd October 2012A field is 120m long. A fence is built along one full length of the field, plus an extra 15m. How long is the fence?
- 23rd October 2012Solve: y - 8 = 15.
- 24th October 2012Find 15% of 220.
- 25th October 2012What is half of 96?
- 26th October 2012A florist has 150 roses to pack into bunches of 8. How many full bunches can she make, and how many roses are left over?
- 27th October 2012Order these from smallest to largest: 0.4, 1/2, 35%.
- 28th October 2012What is 144 / 12?
- 29th October 2012Three boxes are labelled Apples, Oranges and Mixed, but all the labels are wrong. If you can draw only one fruit from one box, from which box should you draw to work out the true contents of all three boxes, and why?
- 30th October 2012A cuboid has a square base of side 30 cm and a height of 0.5 m. Find its volume in cm^3.
- 31st October 2012A recipe requires flour and sugar in the ratio 5:2. If 250g of flour is used, how much sugar is needed?