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FAMILIARISATION
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• Vocabulary
• Maths
• Verbal Reasoning

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YEAR 4 - MBA FAMILIARISATION PACK
We have made a 11+ revision pack by putting together various pieces of the work you have already done in
class. To encourage you to think further some extensive work has also been given. Answers to this pack can
be found in the homework sheets or from the First Aid in English Book. Parents please mark this. THIS
IS NOT HOMEWORK AND NEED NOT BE SUBMITTED TO US.

Please note that this is only a revision pack. Test guidelines and syllabus must be followed and revised from
various other books and suggested resources.

This pack may or may not contain all the topics from the syllabus. This pack can be used for revising some of
the topics for the test.

Good luck from all of us at Master Brain Academy.

Fill in the similar meaning in the spaces provided.
1. Gather
2. Gruff
3. Profit
4. Hung
5. Apart
6. Amazement
7. Forbid
8. Astonish Surprise
9. Old
10. Surrender
11. dampness
12. Nimble
13. feather
14. Insolent
15. Disease
16. Calamity
17. Twilight
18. Margin
19. Cure
20. Rapid
 VERBAL REASONING
What is the feminine of
21. Stallion ……………………..
22. Gander ……………………..
23. Hero ……………………..
24. Bachelor ……………………..
25. Nephew ……………………..

What is the masculine of

26. Cow ……………………..

27. Wife ……………………..
28. Duck ……………………..
29. Aunt ……………………..
30. Witch ……………………..

Places
31. A place to buy bread ………………………………………………….
32. A place to play football …………………………………………………
33. What do you find in a scabbard …………………………………………………
34. A place where grapes are grown …………………………………………………
35. A place where fruit tree grow ………………………………………………

CONTAINERS & THEIR CONTENTS

Container Contents
36. Sword
37. Flowers
38. Wine
39. Coal
40. strawberries
41. Letter
42. Drum
43. Hamper
44. cider
45. Decanter
Shuffled sentences
Each sentence has been jumbled. Rearrange each sentence and write them in the line given below.

46. on the I guitar table the saw

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
47. glass opened William box the
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
48. after Robin and thief the caught him ran
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
49. rescuers the found still few alive people
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
50. dark Jacob in way his groped the
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Underline ONE odd one out

51. tall, short, big, young, small, little
52. rose, tulip, lavender, crocus, cedar, pansy
53. touch, taste, think, hear, see, smell
54. orange, apple, cherry, lily, grape, mango
55. handsome, pretty, beautiful, ugly, gorgeous, charming
56. Cat, cow, tiger, goat, horse
57. Eagle, duck, salmon, crane, raven
58. Boxing, football, cricket, history, golf
59. Lion, reindeer, ox, hawk, fox
60. Poodle, bulldog, cod, terrier, collie
61. Apple, bear, melon, pear, currant
62. Beer, tea, sprout, water, coffee
63. Maple, oak, fir, lily, palm
64. Pink, violet, potato, green, white
65. Cod, plaice, sole, wren, trout
ANALOGY - Complete the relationship.
66. Radio is to ear as television is to ……………………………
67. Up is to down and left is to ……………………………
68. Cup is to saucer as knife is to ……………………………
69. Car is to garage as aeroplane is to ……………………………
70. Fly is to wings as walk is to ……………………………
71. Hot is to cold as rough is to ……………………………

72. Neck is to collar as wrist is to ……………….

73. Drink is to thirsty as food is to ……………….

74. Window is to glass as table is to ……………….

75. Fish is to water as bird is to ……………….

76. Lily is to white as daffodil is to ……………….

77. Tuesday is to Wednesday as Saturday is to …………………………

78. Bear is to bare as check is to …………………………

79. Old is to young as pretty is to …………………………

80. Bee is to hive as horse is to …………………………

81. Flock is to sheep as choir is to …………………………

Three letter word missing

Find the three-letter word that is missing in the word in capital letters. The three letters missing will
form a word.

82. The ship SED safely across the sea. ……………………………

83. Early trains were driven by SM …………………………….
84. The gift was well packed in a bright coloured WPER …………………………….
85. The tables and chairs were ARGED in rows. …………………………….
86. The RESS played a funny role in the drama …………………………….
Rewrite the sentences using the opposite of the word in bold
87. I wrote the answer below each Q………………………………

88. Wood is opaque but glass is T………………………………

89. The sun rises in the morning and S……………………………… in the evening.

90. Jake is lazy, while his sister Rita is very A………………………………

91. The house was occupied until last month, but it is now V……………………………… .

92. Celia is very active, now she is becoming ………………………………………

93. We thought that the movie would be boring, but it turned out to be ……………………………………

94. Water is transparent, but the wood is ………………………………………

95. They put the maximum effort in the ……………………………………… time.

96. When you pump air into a tire it expands, but it ………………………………………when you remove air.

Countable & Uncountable Nouns: Nouns can be countable or uncountable.

97. She went to the library to search for more information.

98. She packed the present.

99. We bought furniture for the living room.

100. The boy ran up to his mum.

101. Adrian will sing a song at the party.

102. It is important that parent give some advice to children to behave well
 Group Terms – Inanimate
Fill in the blanks using the right word. (If needed use the First Aid in English)
103. A cluster of ………………………

104. A tuft of ………………………

105. A crate of ………………………

106. A string of ………………………

107. A flight of ………………………

108. A ……………………… of bread

109. A ……………………… of grapes

110. A ……………………… of stars

111. A ……………………… of cars

112. A ……………………… of trees

The letters of the word below are jumbled. Figure out what the word is and write it
on the blank line provided.
113. RPEOSTT An expression of ………………...………..
disapproval
114. EDORSVIC To gain knowledge ………………...………..

115. EECTL To select by vote ………………...………..

116. UENRRT To come back ………………...………..

117. EVOPEDL To cause to grow or ………………...………..

expand
118. EADDD United or joined ………………...………..

119. CUOHT To put your hand in ………………...………..

contact with something
to feel it

120. KOOL To see something ………………...………..

 Maths – Word Problems
1. Gale has 24 biscuits and wants to share equally with 8 people. How many biscuits would
each person get?

2. Ann was reading a book with 120 pages. If she reads the same number of pages each day,
how many would she have to read each day to finish in 10 days?

3. The cornflakes box holds 18 cups of cornflakes. Each serving is 2 cups. How many servings
are in the whole box?

4. A box of books weighs 42 kilograms. Each book weighs 3 kilograms. How many books are
there in the box?

5. Louise’s mother made 75 tarts. She put the tarts in bags with 3 tars in each bag. How many
bags could she fill up?

6. 105 people are going to a movie. 6 people can ride in each car. How many cars are needed
to get all 105 people to the movie?

7. Ms.Shaw has 17 cupcakes. She wants to share them equally among her 3 children so that no
one gets more than anyone else. If she gives each child as many cupcakes as possible, how
many cupcakes will be left over for Ms. Shaw to eat?

8. 89 cookies are being shared equally among 4 people. How many does each person get?
 9. There was 100g of plasticine and the children needed 20g each. How many children could
have some?

10. There was 50ml of medicine in a bottle. One teaspoon can hold 5ml. How many teaspoons
of medicine can you pour out of the bottle?

11. There were 10 books on the bottom shelf, 30 books on the middle shelf and three books on
the top shelf. How many books would be on each shelf if they were all shared out evenly?

12. At half time in a football game the coach has prepared 42 pieces of orange. There are 12
players. How many pieces each do they receive?

13. A manager has 173 pens to display in 12 boxes. How many pens will he not be able to
display?

Find the area and perimeter of these irregular shapes

A hotel has 7 floors. The lobby, restaurant and gym are located on the ground floor.
The guestrooms are on 1st to 6th floors.

1. If there are 35 standard rooms on each floor, how many standard rooms are there?

2. There are 4 housekeepers working on each floor. One room only requires one housekeeper. If the
housekeepers try distributing the work equally, how many housekeepers need to clean more rooms
that the others?

3. If each standard room can fit 2 guests, what is the maximum number of guests that all the standard
rooms can accommodate?

4. There are 18 suites altogether in the hotel, how many suites are there on each floor if each floor
has the same floorplan?

5. Each suite has 3 beds and there is a bed side table beside each side of each bed. How many bed
side tables are there in all the suites?

Name the triangle

 Classifying quadrilaterals
(square / rectangle / rhombus / parallelogram / trapezoid)

Answer the questions according to the calendar

1. Ron has regular business meetings on the second Tuesday of …………………………….

each month. When is he going to have his meeting in March?

2. Ron has a special meeting on the fifth Wednesday ( if there is …………………………….

any) in any month. How many special meeting is he going to

have this year?

3. School ends on the last weekday in July. What is the date of the …………………………….

last day of school?

4. School will resume on 9th September. Which day of the week is …………………………….

it?

5. How many months are there with exactly 31 days? …………………………….

Think more… Word Problems
1. Laila spends £145.60 on newspapers in one year. How much does
he spend in one week?

2. Tickets for a concert cost £7 for adults and £4 for children. Mrs
Andrew buys tickets for £54. How many adult tickets and how
many child tickets does she buy? Can you find both possible
solutions?
3. Find a pair of numbers with a sum of 45 and a difference of 7

4. England scored 314 runs in the first innings and 87 runs less in their
second innings. How many runs did they score altogether?

5. Lunchtime begins at 12: 25. Rhea realises this is one and a half
hours away. What is the time now?

6.
A tin of paint covers 8 square metres of fence. A fence is 2 metres tall
and 24 metres long. How many tins of paint will be needed?

7. I choose a number. I subtract 27. I add 44. My answer is 91.

What number did I choose?

8. A carpet costs £15 per square metre. A room is 4 metres long and 3
metres wide. How much will it cost to carpet the room?

9. Train tickets for two adults and two children cost £24 altogether.
Children’s tickets cost half price. How much is one adult’s ticket?

10. A surgeon completes an operation at 11:30. He realises it has

taken 75 minutes. When did the operation begin?

11. Janet drives the same route to work every day. After three days she
has driven 111 miles. How far doe she drive in five days?

12. Joyce drives the same journey every day for a week. At the end of the
week she has driven 266 miles. How long is the journey.

13. Preeta’s book has 300 pages. Each day she reads 10 more pages than
the day before. She finishes her book in 6 days. How many pages does
she read?

14. One quarter of the children in a class chose blue as their favourite
colour. Eighteen children chose other colours. How many children are
there in the class?

15. One ninth of the apples in a shop are green. There are 162 apples
altogether. How many are green?
 EXTRA SELECTION OF QUESTIONS
1. Freddy’s living room is rectangular, measuring 7 metres by 6 metres.

a) What is the area of the living room?

b) What is the perimeter of the living room?

a) He covers the whole floor with carpet which cost £15 per sq. m. What is the cost of the carpet?

2. The volume of a cube is 125 cm3. How many smaller cubes of volume 5 cm3 could fit inside the
larger cube?

3. The volume of a cuboid is 150 cm3. It’s breadth is 5m and its height is 10m. What is its length?

4. The area of a face of a cube is 9 cm3. What is the volume of the cube?

5. A mother and her daughter’s ages are in the ratio of 5:2. How old is the daughter if the mother
is 50 years old?
 6. It takes 400 grams of flour to make 8 cup cakes. How much flour is needed to make 24 cup
cakes?

7. A recipe for chicken and sweet corn soup for 4 people is as follows:
800 ml chicken stock
300 grams chicken
240 grams sweet corn
Rewrite the recipe for 12 people.

8. Michael divides his flock of sheep between his sons, John and Jude in the ratio of 4:3. How
many sheep are there in the flock if Johns share is 120?

9. Andrew is 11 years old and Savera is 9 years. They win prize in a raffle and share the prize in
the ratio of their ages. How much is the prize if Andrew’s share is £55?

10. A 1.5 m plank of wood is cut into three length L1, L2 and L3.
L1 = 65 cm, L2 = 45cm. What is the ratio L1 to L2 to L3 expressed in its lowest terms?

11. The ratio of staff to customers in a department store is 3:14. If there are 42 members of staff,
how many people are in the store altogether?
 12. Mrs Andrew went shopping at a superstore. The pie chart shows information about the
money she spent on petrol, on clothes, on food and on other items.

(a) What did she spend most money on? ....................................

(b) What fraction of the money she spent was on petrol? .....................................

13. Anna did a survey where she asked all the children in her school to name their favourite pet.
The results are shown in the pie chart:

What is the angle for the sector of the pie chart representing Fish?
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