You are viewing a free preview of this lesson.
Subscribe to unlock all 10 lessons in this course and every other course on LearningBro.
This is your second full CEM-style mixed practice paper. All four subject areas are interleaved, just as they are in the real CEM 11+ exam. Work through it under timed conditions and use the mark scheme at the end to check your answers.
Read the following poem.
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbour and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
— Carl Sandburg
Q1. What is the fog compared to in this poem? What technique is this? (2 marks)
Q2. Why do you think the poet chose a cat rather than another animal? What qualities of a cat match the fog? (2 marks)
Q3. What does "silent haunches" suggest about how the fog behaves? (1 mark)
Q4. Fill in each gap with a suitable word: The morning mist crept (a) across the lake, covering the water in a thick (b) of grey. (2 marks)
Q5. Choose the correct spelling: The view was completely ___. (a) obscured (b) obscurred (c) obskured (1 mark)
Q6. What does "harbour" mean? (1 mark)
(a) A type of hill (b) A sheltered area of water where boats dock (c) A busy road (d) A tall building
Q7. Rewrite in the passive voice: "The fog covered the city." (1 mark)
Q8. A cuboid has dimensions 8 cm, 5 cm, and 3 cm. What is its volume? (1 mark)
Q9. What is 5/6 - 1/3? Give your answer in its simplest form. (2 marks)
Q10. 45% of a number is 27. What is the number? (2 marks)
Q11. A car travels 195 miles in 3 hours. What is its average speed? (1 mark)
Q12. Two angles of a quadrilateral are 85 degrees and 110 degrees. The other two angles are equal. What are they? (2 marks)
Q13. Simplify the ratio 45:60. (1 mark)
Q14. A shop offers "buy 2 get 1 free" on books costing 6 pounds each. How much does it cost to get 9 books? (1 mark)
Q15. Which is the odd one out: sonnet, haiku, limerick, paragraph, ballad? (1 mark)
Q16. Complete: Painter is to canvas as sculptor is to ___. (1 mark)
Q17. Rearrange BRAMO to make a word meaning "darkness or shadow". (1 mark)
Q18. Find the three-letter word hidden in this sentence: "They played a game of chess." (1 mark)
Q19. What word goes after RAIN and before TIE? (1 mark)
Q20. Using A=1, B=2... what word is 16, 15, 5, 13? (1 mark)
Q21. In the sequence A, D, G, J, ___, what comes next? (1 mark)
Q22. Which word is closest in meaning to FRAGILE? (1 mark)
(a) Strong (b) Delicate (c) Large (d) Bright
Q23. Complete both words with the same letter: CREA( ? ) and ( ? )ASK (1 mark)
Q24. Which two words are most similar in meaning: ancient, modern, elderly, young, new? (1 mark)
Q25. An arrow points to the top-right. It is rotated 90 degrees clockwise. Where does it now point? (1 mark)
Q26. In a sequence, the number of dots increases: 1, 3, 6, 10, ___. What comes next? (1 mark)
Q27. Four shapes have vertical stripes. One has horizontal stripes. Which is the odd one out? (1 mark)
Q28. A white square with a black circle inside becomes a black square with a white circle inside. A white triangle with a black star inside becomes ___? (2 marks)
Q29. A piece of paper is folded into quarters (folded in half twice). A corner is cut off. When unfolded, how many holes are there? (2 marks)
Q30. A pattern has two independent cycles. Shape: triangle, square, circle (3-cycle). Shading: black, grey, white, grey (4-cycle). Frame 1: black triangle. Frame 2: grey square. Frame 3: white circle. Frame 4: grey triangle. What is frame 7? (3 marks)
| Section | Marks available |
|---|---|
| English | 10 |
| Maths | 10 |
| Verbal Reasoning | 10 |
| Non-Verbal Reasoning | 10 |
| Total | 40 |
Subscribe to continue reading
Get full access to this lesson and all 10 lessons in this course.