Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1980The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 2nd November 1980State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 3rd November 1980In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 4th November 1980Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 5th November 1980Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 6th November 1980Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 7th November 1980Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 8th November 1980In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 9th November 1980Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 10th November 1980Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 11th November 1980Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 12th November 1980Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 13th November 1980Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 14th November 1980You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 15th November 1980A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 16th November 1980Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 17th November 1980Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 18th November 1980A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 19th November 1980An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 20th November 1980Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 21st November 1980Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 22nd November 1980A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 23rd November 1980Work out 9 x 7.
- 24th November 1980Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 25th November 1980State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 26th November 1980Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.
- 27th November 1980Name the process by which digested food molecules pass from the small intestine into the blood.
- 28th November 1980An old-style filament light bulb transfers 100 J of electrical energy. Of this, 20 J is transferred usefully as light, and the rest is wasted as heat. Calculate the energy wasted as heat.
- 29th November 1980State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 30th November 1980State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.