Daily Practice · 11+ Entrance
November 2015 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in November 2015, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in November 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2015Choose the word most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to TRANSPARENT. A) Clear B) Opaque C) Thin D) Glass E) Bright
- 2nd November 2015Find the next number in the series: 2, 4, 10, 28, 82, ( ? )
- 3rd November 2015Choose the word closest in meaning to TIMID. A) bold B) shy C) angry D) clever E) tall
- 4th November 2015PUPPY is to DOG as KITTEN is to ? A) Cat B) Mouse C) Bird D) Fish E) Horse
- 5th November 2015A four-letter word is hidden between two words that are next to each other in this sentence. Which word is hidden? 'The heat became extreme almost overnight.' A) CAME B) MEAL C) TREME D) BECA E) ALMO
- 6th November 2015Choose the word closest in meaning to ABUNDANT. A) scarce B) plentiful C) average D) limited E) rare
- 7th November 2015Choose the word closest in meaning to OBSTINATE. A) Flexible B) Stubborn C) Confused D) Shy E) Friendly
- 8th November 2015Which two of these are the odd ones out? A) Oak B) Salmon C) Birch D) Trout E) Willow
- 9th November 2015BD is to FH as JL is to ( ? ) A) MO B) NP C) NO D) MP E) OP
- 10th November 2015Amy, Ben and Cleo each own exactly one pet: a cat, a dog or a rabbit, and no two own the same pet. Amy does not own the cat. Ben owns the dog. Which pet does Amy own?
- 11th November 2015(CARD) (OVE). Which letter moves from the end of the first word to the front of the second? A) C B) A C) R D) D E) O
- 12th November 2015No pupil in Year 5 has a packed lunch on Fridays. Which of these statements must be FALSE? A) Every Year 5 pupil has a school dinner on Fridays. B) Zara, who is in Year 5, has a packed lunch on Friday. C) Some Year 6 pupils have a packed lunch on Friday. D) No Year 5 pupil has a school dinner on Friday. E) Zara is not in Year 5.
- 13th November 2015In this code, the first three letters of a six-letter word move 2 places forward in the alphabet, and the last three letters move 2 places back. If the code for GARDEN is ICTBCL, what is the code for PLANET, using the same rule? A) RNCLCR B) RMCLCR C) RNCKCR D) RNCLBR E) SNCLCR
- 14th November 2015Which word class is 'quickly' in the sentence 'She quickly finished her homework': noun, verb, adverb, or adjective?
- 15th November 2015How many lines are quoted in 'Streetlights blink awake one by one, / stitching the dark city back together'?
- 16th November 2015State whether the prompt 'Sport is more important than art in school. Do you agree?' is asking for narrative, persuasive or descriptive writing.
- 17th November 2015Join these two sentences correctly with a semicolon: 'The rain finally stopped. The sun came out almost immediately.'
- 18th November 2015A poem's final stanza repeats a word from its first stanza. Explain one reason a poet might do this.
- 19th November 2015The word 'bark' could mean the sound a dog makes or the outer covering of a tree. Which meaning fits in 'The dog's bark echoed across the yard'?
- 20th November 2015'The window offers up the sleeping villages one by one.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 21st November 2015State whether the word "chatty" generally has a positive or negative connotation, compared with the more negative "nosy", when describing someone who talks to a lot of people.
- 22nd November 2015What sentence type is 'Close the window, please.'?
- 23rd November 2015Give an example of the 'rule of three' in a sentence persuading readers to recycle more.
- 24th November 2015'The lighthouse stands watch over the sleeping bay.' Explain what is being compared to what in this personification.
- 25th November 2015Which sentence uses a colon correctly? A) We need: eggs, milk and flour. B) We need three things: eggs, milk and flour.
- 26th November 2015True or False: the same question types (for example, 'explain the writer's use of language to build atmosphere') are equally likely to appear for both a fiction extract and a purely factual non-fiction extract.
- 27th November 2015'The wasps hovered like tiny golden thieves.' Name the simile in this line.
- 28th November 2015Choose the correct pronoun: 'The teacher gave the prize to Sam and (I / me).'
- 29th November 2015Name two features you would expect to see in a formal report but would not usually see in a persuasive letter.
- 30th November 2015Why might a mixed-genre paper pair a personal story about swifts with a factual passage about swifts, rather than about two unrelated topics?