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April 2019 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in April 2019, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in April 2019
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2019True or False: In the sentence 'Reluctantly, Sam handed over his last sweet', Sam gave the sweet away happily.
- 2nd April 2019Explain in one sentence why the writer chooses to describe Amara's silence rather than having her shout.
- 3rd April 2019'The Ferris wheel stood frozen against the darkening sky.' What does 'frozen' suggest about the Ferris wheel?
- 4th April 2019Using the verb 'create', what word class would you expect 'creation' to be, and what would it mean?
- 5th April 2019'She was over the moon when she heard she had passed the exam.' What does 'over the moon' mean?
- 6th April 2019According to the extract, what change is credited with the rise in nesting pairs?
- 7th April 2019Explain why 'get' might feel out of place in an otherwise formal passage that uses words like 'obtain', 'require' and 'therefore'.
- 8th April 2019A poem's last stanza returns to an image used in its first stanza. Give one reason a poet might do this.
- 9th April 2019A cloze passage introduces "the pupils" in its first sentence. Which pronoun should a later gap use to refer back to them: "he", "she" or "they"?
- 10th April 2019Rank these three words from mildest to strongest: furious, annoyed, enraged.
- 11th April 2019'Through the frosted glass she could make out shapes moving, but no words reached her.' What does this sentence suggest about how much Amara could understand of what was happening inside?
- 12th April 2019'The years slipped by quickly after that: the children grew, the shop changed hands twice, and the town spread further along the river.' Is this sentence an example of summarised time or a closely detailed scene? Explain your answer.
- 13th April 2019"The children were (1)_______ upset when the trip was cancelled." Choose the word matching "slightly": A) devastated B) disappointed C) heartbroken
- 14th April 2019Give one word from the extract that shows Noah did not complain or make a fuss about the sandcastle being destroyed.
- 15th April 2019Choose the correct preposition: 'The treasure was hidden ___ the three pirates.' A) between B) among
- 16th April 2019Why is "less" generally considered incorrect in the sentence "There were less cars on the road today"?
- 17th April 2019Why might a writer describe a setting as behaving illogically, such as corridors that multiply, rather than simply describing it as 'a big house'?
- 18th April 2019'Elliot dragged the trunk out from behind the water tank, coughing as decades of dust rose around him.' Which word tells you that a very long time had passed since the trunk was last moved?
- 19th April 2019Add a prefix to 'patient' to make its antonym.
- 20th April 2019Find 10% of 350.
- 21st April 2019Order these temperatures from coldest to warmest: -3, 5, -8, 0.
- 22nd April 2019A number is divisible by 8. Is it always divisible by 4? Explain.
- 23rd April 2019A shape is formed from a 10 cm by 7 cm rectangle with a 4 cm by 3 cm rectangle removed from the middle of one long side, not from a corner. Explain why the perimeter is not the same as the original rectangle's perimeter.
- 24th April 2019A triangle has a base of 10 cm and a height of 6 cm. Find its area.
- 25th April 2019A plane flies 2,400 km in 4 hours, then a further 600 km in 1 hour. Work out its average speed for the whole journey.
- 26th April 2019In a Venn diagram of 30 pupils, 8 like both apples and bananas. If 17 like apples in total, how many like apples only?
- 27th April 2019Solve: x + 9 = 17.
- 28th April 2019A jacket costs 60 pounds and is reduced by 15%. What is the sale price?
- 29th April 2019Solve x - 6 = 15.
- 30th April 2019A bar chart shows rainfall of 45mm in June and 63mm in July. Find the total rainfall over the two months.