Woldingham School 11+ Sample Papers The 11+ Assessments will also include a Cognitive Ability Test which includes Verbal Reasoning, Non‐verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning which will last one hour. Samples of these tests can be obtained from any good stationer. Entrance Examination 11+ Entry 2016 English Name: __________________________________________________ Current School: ___________________________________________  45 minutes allowed  Dictionaries are not allowed For official use only Mark / 35 Percentage ……………….. % Please return by …………… Comment: …………………………………………………………………………………………….. Read the following passage and answer the questions. This extract is from a short story by Doris Lessing. It is about a 14‐year‐old girl who chooses a puppy against the wishes of her mother. It was my father who decided we must have a dog, but choosing one turned out to be more difficult than we thought. After my mother had turned down a dozen puppies, we asked ourselves if any dog, anywhere in the world, could possibly be good enough. But, when we found it, this new puppy was to be my dog. I had decided this. And the fact was that I didn’t want a good, noble and well‐bred dog – the kind that my mother longed for. I didn’t know what I did want, but the idea of such a dog bored me. That summer we went to stay on an isolated farm with my father’s friend, Mr Barnes. It was night when we arrived, and an almost full moon floated above the farm. The land around was black and silent, except for the small incessant noise of the crickets. The car drew up outside the farm and as the engine stopped there was the sound of a mad, wild yapping. Behold, around the corner of the house came a small black wriggling object that threw itself towards the car, changed course on almost touching it, and dashed off again. ‘Take no notice of that puppy,’ said Mr Barnes. ‘It’s been stark staring mad with the moon every night this last week.’ We went into the house and were fed and looked after. I was sent upstairs so that the grown‐
ups could talk freely. All the time came the mad high yapping. In my tiny bedroom I looked out onto the space between the house and the farm buildings, and there hurtled the puppy, crazy with the joy of life, or moonlight, weaving back and forth, snapping at its own black shadow – like a drunken moth around a candle‐flame, or like … like nothing I’ve ever seen or heard of since. That, of course, was my puppy. Mr Barnes came out of the house saying, ‘Come now, you lunatic animal… ’, almost throwing himself on the crazy creature, which was yapping and flapping around like a fish as he carried it to its kennel. I was already saying, like an anguished mother watching a stranger handle her child: ‘Careful now, careful, that’s my dog.’ Next day, after breakfast, I went to announce my decision. My mother at once said: ‘Oh no, not that puppy. We’ll never be able to train him.’ Mr Barnes said I could have him with pleasure. My father said he didn’t see anything wrong with the dog, if a dog was healthy that was all that mattered: my mother sighed and sat silent. The atmosphere of adults disagreeing with each other was familiar to me. I didn’t say a word. I simply knew that things would work themselves out, and the puppy would be mine. Was right on my side? It was. Should anybody but myself choose my dog? No. Very well then, I had chosen. I chose this dog. I chose it. Too late, I had chosen it. Three days and three nights we spent at the Barnes’ place. On the last night of our stay I crept out in the cold moonlight to sit and watch the tiny, black, hurtling puppy. When I finally went to my bed, I fell asleep dreaming of the little dog with brown, buttony, beautiful eyes, and I knew I couldn’t leave him behind. We took him away next morning. It was a long drive home and all the way the puppy yawned and wriggled on my lap, then lay on its fat back, its four paws sprawled every‐which‐way. My father demanded irritably that the dog should be ‘thoroughly trained’, and I answered ‘yes’, only half hearing him. My head ran in circles like the puppy’s own wild movements, dizzy with a mixture of joy and alarm. This was my dog. My responsibility. Questions Please answer the following questions in the spaces provided. 1. What narrative voice is the text written in? First person, second person, or third person? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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11+ Entry 2016
Mathematics
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SECTION A - You do not need to show working. Write answers in the spaces
provided.
All questions are worth 1 mark each
Question
No
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Calculate 7 x 9
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Calculate 42 ÷ 7
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Calculate 80 ÷ 10
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Calculate 6000 ÷ 100
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Calculate 34.2 x 10
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Calculate 98.9 x 1000
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Change
Answer
to a percentage
What are the 10th term of this sequence
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7 , 12 , 17 , 22 , 27
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9
Calculate – 54 + 36
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Calculate 17 – – 34
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Calculate
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Calculate
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Simplify
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Write as a mixed number
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Round 3.456 to 2 decimal places
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SECTION B – You must show all your working.
Q1.
Number grid
Here is a number grid.
41
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Two squares are shaded.
(a)
What is the total of the numbers in the two shaded squares?
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1 mark
(b)
Shade two different squares that have the same total as the answer to part (a).
1 mark
(c)
What is the total of the numbers in all four shaded squares?
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1 mark
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Q2.
Dishes
In a restaurant, the colour of each dish shows how much the food in it costs.
The table shows the different colours and costs.
Colour of dish
Cost
Green
£1.50
Blue
£ 2.00
Red
£ 2.50
Orange
£ 3.00
Pink
£ 3.50
(a)
Meera pays for two blue dishes and two pink dishes.
Altogether, how much did they cost?
£
1 mark
(b)
Victor pays for one green, one red and one pink dish.
He pays with a £10 note.
How much change should he get?
£
2 marks
(c)
Rachel pays for two dishes that cost exactly £4.50 altogether.
What colours could her dishes be?
There are two possible answers. Write them both.
colours: ............................ and ............................
1 mark
or colours: ............................ and ............................
1 mark
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Q3.
Populations
The table shows the approximate populations of five different places.
Place
(a)
Approximate population
London
7 000 000
Sheffield
700 000
Harrogate
70 000
Ash Vale
7 000
Binbrook
700
Which of the places has a population of about seventy thousand?
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1 mark
(b)
Use the table to complete these sentences.
The population of Harrogate is about 10 times as big as
the population of ...............................
The population of ............................... is about 100 times as big as
the population of Harrogate.
The population of Sheffield is about .................. times as big as
the population of Ash Vale.
2 marks
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Q4.
Areas
(a)
What is the area of this rectangle?
......................... cm2
1 mark
(b)
I use the rectangle to make four triangles.
Each triangle is the same size.
What is the area of one of the triangles?
......................... cm2
1 mark
(c)
I use the four triangles to make a trapezium.
What is the area of the trapezium?
......................... cm2
1 mark
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Q5.
Coordinates
Look at the graph.
(a)
Write down the coordinates of points A and C.
A is (
,
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1 mark
C is (
,
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1 mark
(b)
Point D can be marked so that ABCD is a rectangle.
Mark point D accurately on the graph.
1 mark
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Q6.
Spinner
Tom has a fair spinner with 8 equal sections.
He is going to spin the pointer.
Draw lines to show how likely the following are.
One is done for you.
2 marks
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Q7.
Clock
(a)
The time on this clock is 3 o'clock.
What is the size of the angle between the hands?
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1 mark
(b)
What is the size of the angle between the hands at 1 o'clock?
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1 mark
(c)
What is the size of the angle between the hands at 5 o'clock?
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1 mark
(d)
How long does it take for the minute hand to move 360°?
1 mark
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Q8.
Prime factors
You can write any whole number as a product of its prime factors.
Here is an example for the number 60:
Write 225 as a product of its prime factors.
225 = ............................................
2 marks
Q9.
28 times table
If I know that 9 × 28 is 252
What is 27 × 28?
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2 marks
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Q10.
Finding D
(a)
Where should you put point D so that shape ABCD is a square?
Mark point D on the grid.
1 mark
(b)
Where could you put point E so that shape ABCE is a trapezium?
Mark point E on the grid below.
1 mark
Now write the coordinates of point E
(
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1 mark
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Children’s party
Q11.
A boat can be hired for children’s parties.
The formula below shows the cost.
Cost = £13.50 × the number of children + £23
(a)
What is the cost of a party for 8 children?
£
1 mark
(b)
A different children’s party cost £225.50
How many children were at the party?
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2 marks
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Q12.
Shoe sizes
(a)
There are four people in Sita’s family.
Their shoe sizes are 4, 5, 7 and 10
What is the median shoe size in Sita’s family?
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1 mark
(b)
There are three people in John’s family.
The range of their shoe sizes is 4
Two people in the family wear shoe size 6
John’s shoe size is not 6 and it is not 10
What is John’s shoe size?
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1 mark
Q13.
Fairground shooting
In a fairground shooting gallery each target I hit has a score which is an integer. My three shots are all
scored, all three scores were different, and each score was an even number. My total was 18.
How many different solutions are there? What are they?
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Q14.
Walls
In these walls each brick is made by adding the two bricks underneath it.
(a)
Write an expression for the top brick in this wall.
Write your expression as simply as possible.
1 mark
(b)
Fill in the missing expression on these walls.
Write your expression as simply as possible.
2 marks
(c)
In the wall below, h j and k can be any whole numbers.
Explain why the top brick of the wall must always be an even number.
You can fill in the missing expressions if you want to.
2 marks
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