Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1980Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 2nd January 1980Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 3rd January 1980Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 4th January 1980A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.
- 5th January 1980Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 6th January 1980A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 7th January 1980Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 8th January 1980A drawer contains 4 black socks and 6 white socks only. Two socks are taken out at random, one after another, without replacement. Work out the probability that both socks are white.
- 9th January 1980A two-digit number is 7 times the sum of its digits. The digit in the tens place is one more than the digit in the units place. Find the two-digit number.
- 10th January 1980Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 11th January 1980Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 12th January 1980A jacket priced at 84 pounds is increased by 25% for the winter season. Calculate the new price.
- 13th January 1980State one way a red blood cell is adapted to carry oxygen efficiently.
- 14th January 1980A reaction between magnesium ribbon and hydrochloric acid gives off heat, and the temperature of the acid rises from 20 degrees C to 35 degrees C. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic, and explain how you know.
- 15th January 1980State the unit normally used for speed in physics, and name one other unit that speed could also correctly be measured in.
- 16th January 1980Two forces of 10 N and 10 N act on an object in exactly opposite directions. Calculate the resultant force.
- 17th January 1980State whether respiration in muscle cells during hard exercise, when oxygen supply cannot keep up with demand, is aerobic or anaerobic.
- 18th January 1980Name the layer of gases surrounding the Earth that contains the oxygen needed for respiration.
- 19th January 1980Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: the coach shouted keep going were nearly there
- 20th January 1980A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 21st January 1980A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 22nd January 1980Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 23rd January 1980Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 24th January 1980Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 25th January 1980Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade readers to support an animal shelter.
- 26th January 1980Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 27th January 1980In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 40 degrees and the side opposite A is 8 cm. Use trigonometry to find the length of the hypotenuse, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 28th January 1980Find 3/8 of 64.
- 29th January 1980Write 0.000078 in standard form.
- 30th January 1980A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 31st January 1980Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.