2016 Entry
11+ Entrance Examination
Guidelines and Sample Questions
English
Maths
Verbal Reasoning
Sample Paper Timings
English
Maths
Verbal Reasoning
1 hour
1 hour
15 mins
11+ Exam Guidelines
11+ English Examination
1 Hour
There are three sections to the examination
Pupils should spend 30 minutes on Section A and Section B
Section A
There will be a number of multiple choice questions on a short reading passage.
The passage is taken from a fiction text. This includes a story, short stories, or a
poem. The pupils will have to show an understanding of the content and identify
specific language features and parts of speech.
These language features might include:
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metaphors
similes
personification
alliteration
The parts of speech might include:
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nouns
verbs
adjectives
adverbs
Section B
The questions in section B require longer responses. Pupils need to show that they
understand the themes of the passage and they can explore how a writer uses
language for effect. They should be able to give quotations to support their ideas
where appropriate.
Section C
Pupils should spend 30 minutes on Section C. There will be a choice of two
creative writing titles to choose from. The subject of the creative writing will be
related to the topic of the passage. The tasks will always be descriptive and
informative. We are looking for originality and flair here, demonstrating a
promising ability to use language imaginatively, given the pupils’ age. Also, a good
level of accuracy in spelling and punctuation and an ability to structure the writing
in paragraphs will be rewarded.
Questions will be set on the Key Stage 2 programme of study up to and including
level 5.
For your information, the content of level 5 is presented here:
WRITING
READING
Level 5
Pupils show understanding of a range of texts, selecting essential points
and using inference and deduction where appropriate. In their responses,
they identify key features, themes and characters and select sentences,
phrases and relevant information to support their views. They retrieve
and collate information from a range of sources.
Pupils' writing is varied and interesting, conveying meaning clearly in a
range of forms for different readers, using a more formal style where
appropriate. Vocabulary choices are imaginative and words are used
precisely. Simple and complex sentences are organised into paragraphs.
Words with complex regular patterns are usually spelt correctly. A range
of punctuation, including commas, apostrophes and inverted commas, is
usually used accurately. Handwriting is joined, clear and fluent and,
where appropriate, is adapted to a range of tasks.
Sample Passage
The Way through the Woods
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5
10
15
20
25
They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you’d never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease
There was once a road through the woods.
Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate,
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because they see so few.)
You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet,
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods.
But there is no road through the woods.
Rudyard Kipling
WORD BANK
Coppice – a group of small trees
Heath – flat land with low shrubs
Anemones – a plant with red, purple or white flowers
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
Section A (10 marks)
Read the poem in the reading booklet carefully.
In each question only one answer is correct. Circle the letter (A, B, or C) of the
correct answer. For example, if you think that A) is the correct answer to
question 1, circle A).
1) When did
A)
B)
C)
they shut the road through the woods?
Sixty years ago.
Seventy years ago.
Twenty years ago.
(1 mark)
2) What does the poet mean by the line: ‘Weather and rain have undone it
again,’?
(1 mark)
A) The road has been eroded.
B) The road has been extended.
C) The gate that is shutting the road has come open.
3) What kind of description is ‘Weather and rain have undone it again,’?
(1 mark)
A) A metaphor.
B) A simile.
C) Alliteration.
4) What does ‘where the ring-dove broods,’ mean? What is the ring-dove doing?
(1 mark)
A) The ring-dove is sleeping.
B) The ring-dove is hiding.
C) The ring-dove is sitting on eggs in a nest.
5) Why do you think that ‘the badgers roll at ease’?
(1 mark)
A) They roll at ease because they like the grass in the coppice.
B) They roll at ease because it is so peaceful and quiet that they are
not afraid.
C) They roll at ease because they want to eat the doves.
6) In line 15, why are the pools ‘trout-ringed’?
(1 mark)
A) The trout are coming to the surface of the water and their
movement creates rings on the surface.
B) People are throwing stones in the water.
C) The water is full of the sound of fish.
7) Why don’t the otters fear people?
A) They are used to people.
B) They see so few.
C) They have never met people.
(1 mark)
8) Look at line 20. What type of word is ‘swish’?
A) An adjective.
B) An adverb.
C) A noun.
9) Look at line 21. What type of word is ‘steadily’?
A) An adjective.
B) An adverb.
C) A noun.
10) Look at line 21. What does the word ‘cantering’ mean?
(1 mark)
(1 mark)
(1 mark)
A) A gentle gallop.
B) Tip-toeing.
C) Walking.
Section B (15 marks)
Read the following 5 questions and answer in full sentences in your own words.
After each question, the number of marks available has been given in brackets.
This indicates how much information we are looking for; if a question has three
marks we are looking for three separate points in your answer.
1) How does the pace of the poem change in line 19? What technique does the
poet use to achieve this? Explain your answer carefully.
(3 marks)
2) Look at line 20: ‘And the swish of the skirt in the dew.’ What technique is
used in the description “swish of the skirt”? What effect do you think it has?
Explain your answer carefully.
(3 marks)
3) Look at line 22. What do you think the ‘misty solitudes’ are? In your own
words, explain your answer carefully.
(2 marks)
4) The poem uses lots of sensual imagery. For each sense, write out a line
from the poem that uses that sense. The first one has been done for you:
SENSE
SMELL
SOUND
TOUCH
SIGHT
LINE FROM THE POEM
‘…the thin anemones’
5) Look at lines 19-20. Do you think the ‘beat of the horse’s feet’ and the
‘swish of the skirt’ are real or in the poet’s imagination? Why do you think
the poet writes about these things at this stage of the poem?
(4 marks)
Section C (25 marks)
We would like you to write a descriptive piece inspired by ONE of the ideas
listed below. Before you write, you may wish to write a plan; you are welcome
to do so but please cross it out at the end of the examination so we do not
mark it. Organise your writing into paragraphs, make sure it is interesting to
read and pay careful attention to the accuracy of your work.
Either:
1) The poem ‘The Way through the Woods’ is about the power of nature.
Write a description of a natural landscape. Be sure to make your
description as interesting and engaging as possible.
(25 marks)
Or:
2) Write a description of a person that you admire. Be sure to explain why
you respect them.
(25 marks)
11+ Maths Examination
1 Hour (80 marks)
There are two sections to the examination
Section A (30 marks) – 20 minutes
There will be a number of short questions testing a command of basic ideas from
the syllabus; there may be some in-context questions but these will be
straightforward.
Section B (50 marks) – 40 minutes
The questions in section B require longer responses. These questions will test the
candidate’s ability to apply mathematical reasoning in problem solving contexts.
Syllabus
Questions will be set on the Key Stage 2 programme of study up to and including
level 5, together with these topics from level 6: area of a triangle,
addition/subtraction of fractions with different denominators.
For your information, the content of level 5 is presented here:
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Multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.
Negative numbers (ordering, adding and subtracting)
The four rules (   ) applied to decimals to 2 places
Simplifying fractions (“cancelling”)
Fractional and percentage parts of quantities
Multiplying 3-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers
Simple formulae and equations expressed in symbolic form
Use of brackets
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Coordinates in all four quadrants
Angles measured as part rotations and in degrees
Angles of a triangle add to 180; angles at a point add to 360
Symmetry (line and rotational) of 2D shapes
Conversion of metric units to other metric units
Approximate metric equivalents of imperial units still in daily use (these will
be given)
Estimates relating to everyday objects (height, weight, volume etc.)
Area of a rectangle
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Calculating mean, median, mode and range for a list of data
Pie charts
Probability line
Simple probability calculations (equally likely outcomes)
Experimental probability
Sample paper (Mathematics) 2014
You must use the answer boxes where they are provided
Do your working in the space surrounding the questions
In section A only your answer gains the marks
In section B there are marks for your working as well as for the answer so show working
clearly
Equipment allowed: pens, pencils, ruler
Equipment prohibited: protractor, calculator
[marks]
Section A (30 marks) – 20 minutes
1.
Calculate 123 + 468
010
2.
[1]
Calculate 648 × 5
020
3.
[1]
Calculate 3192 ÷ 7
030
4.
[1]
Calculate 513 – 236
040
5.
Find
⁄
[1]
of £45
050 £
A
6.
Put these into increasing order 0.3,
B
⁄
C
D
, 25%,
⁄
write four letters in the box ….
7.
[1]
increasing
060
[1]
Calculate 7 × 0.4
070
8.
[1]
Calculate
080
9.
[1]
If I leave home at 08:24 and arrive at work at 10:17, what was my journey time?
090
hr
min
[1]
10. Find 35% of $80
0100 $
[1]
11. What is the next term in this sequence: 7, 15, 23, 31, … ?
0110
[1]
12. Write down the number which is halfway between 17 and 35
0120
[1]
13. Calculate 7 + 8 × 3
0130
[1]
14. Calculate 67 × 23
0140
[1]
15. Calculate (124 + 231) ÷ 5
0150
[1]
16. Calculate 25% of 64 kg
0160
kg
[1]
17. 18 has six factors; two of them are 1 and 3; write down the other four
0170
[1]
18. What is the 7th term in this sequence: 11, 8, 5, 2, … ?
0180
[1]
19. 1 kg is approximately 2.2 lbs (pounds). Roughly how many pounds is 5 kg?
0190
lbs
[1]
20. Write the number 7 400 040 in words
0200
[1]
21. If 30% of £P is £21, what is P?
0210 P =
[1]
22. What is the smallest odd number that can be written using all the digits 4, 6, 2, 5 once only?
0220
[1]
23. If I buy 7 pencil sharpeners costing 14p each and pay with £1, what change do I receive?
0230
p
0240
mins
[1]
24. How many minutes are there in 2½ hours?
[1]
25. 9 and 16 are called square numbers because 9 = 3 × 3 and 16 = 4 × 4.
Which numbers in this list are square numbers: 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000?
0250
[1]
26. I think of a number, multiply it by 9 then add 5 and end up with 113.
What number did I think of?
0260
[1]
27. A bag contains 20 discs; 9 of them are red, 7 of them are green and the rest are blue.
A disc is drawn at random; what is the probability that it is blue?
Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
0270
[1]
28. Calculate 5 × 57 × 4
0280
[1]
29. 6 bottles of spring water cost £2.52. How much do 9 bottles cost?
0290 £
[1]
30. Calculate 30 + 30 × 30 + 30 × 30 × 30
0300
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End of Section A
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[1]
Section B (50 marks) – 40 minutes
1.
Leonardo da Vinci, a famous Italian Mathematician, wrote some of his manuscripts in
“mirror writing” to add mystery. For example he would write the word TRAM like
this:
How would he have written the word PEST?
010
[2]
2.
Each box represents a missing digit (number). Fill in the missing digits:
x
(a)
9
=
4
(b)
5
(c)
+
8
97
1
x8=
(d)
420
_ 2 4
46
2
[8]
3.
This table shows information about four solid shapes.
Complete the table. One has been done for you.
Sphere
Number of flat surfaces
Number of curved surfaces
0
1
Cone
Square based pyramid
Cylinder
[3]
4.
James, Ben, Sarah and Amy take turns to have a shower in the morning.
James (the oldest) always goes first. Using their initials (A  Amy etc.), list all the
possible orders in which they could take their showers. One has been done for you
040 JBSA
5.
[2]
David and Katherine have some biscuits. Altogether they have 39 biscuits. David has 3 more
biscuits than Katherine does. How many biscuits do David and Katherine each have?
050 David:
Katherine:
[2]
6.
Here is a simplified map showing the shortest distances by
road between three towns, Ascom, Felton and Monkton.
(a) Ben is going to cycle from Felton to Ascom, but the
direct route is blocked (storm damage!). So, instead he
goes via Monkton.
How far does Ben cycle ?
06a0
(b)
7.
miles
[1]
How much further will Ben have to cycle as a result of not being able to take the direct route?
06b0
miles
070
bananas
[2]
Alex makes a fruit salad using bananas, oranges and apples.
For every one apple, she uses 2 bananas and 3 oranges.
Alex uses 24 fruits; how many bananas does she use?
[2]
8.
Kirsty’s GREENGROCERS
Potatoes
Carrots
Turnips
2kg bags, £1.50 each
68p per kg
72p per kg
**** Special Offer – 5 bags of potatoes for £6 ****
Opening times: Mon - Sat inclusive 8:30am – 5:00pm
(a) Find the (cheapest) total cost of: five bags of potatoes and 3½ kg of turnips
08a0 £
[2]
(b) For how many hours each week is Kirsty’s shop open?
08b0
9.
hours
[2]
Here is an equilateral triangle inside a square.
The perimeter of the triangle is 51 centimetres.
What is the perimeter of the shaded area?
090
cm
[2]
10. (a) Two angles are 27 and 36. Find the third angle
010a0
cm

010b0 y =

[2]
(b) The angles marked y are equal. Calculate y
Complete the magic square so that the numbers in every row,
every column and both diagonals add up to 15.
11.
12. (a) Draw three more lines to correctly show the mean, median
and range of these seven numbers: 1 , 2 , 5 , 1 , 5 , 6 , 1
[1]
[2]
[2]
(b) Three single digit whole numbers have a mean of 7.
One of them is 4; what are the other two numbers?
012b0
and
[2]
13. The * operator works like this:
, for example
(a) Find the value of: 6 * 10
013a0
[1]
(b) Find the value of: 4 * 7 (giving your answer in its simplest form)
013b0
[1]
(c) If 2 * q = 0.2, what is q?
013c0 q =
[1]
14. A maths teacher hangs a picture of a triangle on
his wall. The outer dimensions of the frame are
60cm by 34cm and the frame is 2cm wide. The
picture shows a triangle .. measurements are
given. The triangle is drawn on canvas.
(a) Calculate the area of the triangle
014a0
cm2
014b0
cm2
[2]
(b) Calculate the area of canvas visible (part of it is covered by the triangle)
[3]
15. In the number system on Planet Zog, only one-digit numbers occur, using any of the digits 0
to 9. Counting proceeds in the normal way until 9 is reached, then the next number is 0 and
the whole sequence repeats itself. Addition and multiplication can be performed as normal
except that only the units digit of the answer is taken.
So, for example, 7 + 8 = 5, since usually 7 + 8 =15, and 7  8 = 6, since usually 7  8 = 56
(a) Find 8 + 8
015a0
[1]
(b) Find 7  7
015b0
[1]
P, Q and R are all single digit numbers
(c) If 8 + P = 4, find the value of P
015c0 P =
[1]
(d) If 7  Q = 8, find the value of Q
015d0 Q =
[1]
(e) If 6  R = 4, find two values of R
015e0 R =
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End of Section B
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or
[1]
Sample Paper (Mathematics) 2014 – ANSWERS
Section A
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Section B
591
3240
456
277
£18
DBCA
2.8
2/12 or 1/6
1h 53m
$28
39
26
31
1541
71
16kg
2, 6, 9, 18
-7
11
Seven million four hundred
thousand and forty
70
2465
2p
150mins
1, 100, 10000
12
1/5
1140
£3.78
27930
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
(a) 6,5 (b) 4,1,1 (c) 9,3 (d) 7,1
1,1 5,0 2,1
JBAS, JABS, JASB, JSAB, JSBA
21, 18
18.3, 11
8
£8.52, 51h
85 cm
117, 77
4,3 9 2,7,6
(a) mean 3, median 2, range 5
(b) 8, 9
13. ⁄
⁄
9
2
14. 150 cm , 1530 cm2
15. 6, 9, 6, 4, 4 or 9
11+ VR sample paper answers
1.
careless
2.
smaller/house
3.
B
4.
NOT
5.
HOT
6.
TON
7.
eat
8.
G/I
9.
made
10.
colour/paint
11.
blue