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July 2019 - 11+ Entrance 5-a-day
Every 11+ Entrance sheet published in July 2019, with answers. English, maths and verbal and non-verbal reasoning at entrance-exam pitch.
Every sheet in July 2019
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2019Why should a pupil pick the prompt they have the most specific ideas for, rather than the prompt that sounds most impressive?
- 2nd July 2019Correct the punctuation: 'She had one request see her family before the operation.'
- 3rd July 2019True or False: A poem written in four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme has an irregular, unpredictable structure.
- 4th July 2019Explain the difference in connotation between 'thrifty' and 'stingy', two words for someone careful with money.
- 5th July 2019'The train stitches the dark countryside together.' Which word is the metaphor's key verb, borrowed from sewing?
- 6th July 2019Why might a persuasive writer deliberately choose a word with a strong negative connotation when describing the opposing side of an argument?
- 7th July 2019What sentence type is 'What a fantastic goal that was!'?
- 8th July 2019Why is it a strength, not a weakness, for a persuasive piece to mention and then answer a counter-argument?
- 9th July 2019True or False: a poem written from the point of view of a single character, using 'I', is written in the first person.
- 10th July 2019Correct the comma splice: 'The bell rang, everyone stood up.'
- 11th July 2019A mixed-genre paper asks pupils to compare the tone of a fiction extract and a non-fiction extract on a similar subject. What does 'tone' mean in this context?
- 12th July 2019A 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.
- 13th July 2019Choose the correct word: 'We have (fewer / less) time than we thought.'
- 14th July 2019A pupil writes a persuasive letter to a local council. Which paragraph should generally state the reason for writing: the opening or the closing paragraph?
- 15th July 2019In Extract A, what does Grandad do every year at dusk?
- 16th July 2019Explain why, in an open cloze passage with no word bank, checking word class before thinking of an exact word saves time.
- 17th July 2019A 60-pound coat has its price increased by 30%, then the new price is reduced by 30%. Work out the final price, and state whether it is the same as the original 60 pounds.
- 18th July 2019In a class of 30 pupils, 3/5 walk to school. Of the pupils who do not walk, the ratio who cycle to those who are driven is 1 : 3. How many pupils are driven to school?
- 19th July 2019A cube has edges of length 5 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 20th July 2019A mother is 24 years older than her daughter. The daughter is currently 11. How old will the mother be when the daughter is 20?
- 21st July 2019Point F is at (2, 2). Reflect F in the line x = 6. Write down the new coordinates.
- 22nd July 2019Two trains connect at a station: the first arrives at 14:35, and the connecting train departs at 14:50. How long is the wait?
- 23rd July 2019Eight numbers have a mean of 7. Seven of them are 4, 6, 9, 3, 8, 10 and 5. Work out the eighth number.
- 24th July 2019The nth term of a sequence is 2n + 5. Which term of the sequence is equal to 23?
- 25th July 2019Estimate first, then calculate exactly: roughly what is 198 x 4? Then work out the exact answer.
- 26th July 2019Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 27th July 2019A 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?
- 28th July 2019Solve: 3y = 27.
- 29th July 2019A ribbon 3.6m long is cut into pieces 0.4m long. How many pieces can be cut?
- 30th July 2019Find 30% of 250.
- 31st July 2019What number bond to 100 pairs with 65?