Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1980Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 2nd August 1980Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 3rd August 1980State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 4th August 1980Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 5th August 1980A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 6th August 1980Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 7th August 1980A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 8th August 1980Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 9th August 1980State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 10th August 1980A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 11th August 1980A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 12th August 1980In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 13th August 1980Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 14th August 1980Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 15th August 1980Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 16th August 1980Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 17th August 1980Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 18th August 1980A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 19th August 1980The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.
- 20th August 1980Work out 84 / 12.
- 21st August 1980Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 22nd August 1980Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 23rd August 1980p = 5, q = -2. Work out the value of 3p + q.
- 24th August 1980A bag has 4 yellow and 6 purple counters. Find the probability of picking a purple counter.
- 25th August 1980A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 26th August 1980A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 27th August 1980A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 28th August 1980A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 29th August 1980A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 30th August 1980Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 31st August 1980Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.