Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1981Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 2nd February 1981A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
- 3rd February 1981Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 4th February 1981Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 5th February 1981State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 6th February 1981A character says 'I'm fine' through gritted teeth, then slams the door. Explain what the contrast between the character's words and actions suggests.
- 7th February 1981Correct the spelling error caused by a missing doubled consonant: 'I am hopping to finish my homework before dinner' (meaning expecting, not jumping).
- 8th February 1981Correct the tense error: 'Last week, she swims to the buoy and back without stopping.'
- 9th February 1981A poem has irregular line lengths and no rhyme scheme, but a steady, insistent rhythm created by repeating the same three-syllable phrase. What technique creates this effect?
- 10th February 1981What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 11th February 1981A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 12th February 1981Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Yesterday, Priya walks to school and meets her friend Tom.
- 13th February 1981A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 14th February 1981Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 15th February 1981A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 16th February 1981Work out 56 / 7.
- 17th February 1981In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 18th February 1981Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 19th February 1981Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 20th February 1981A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 21st February 1981Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 22nd February 1981The first three terms of the triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6. If the pattern continues in the same way, what is the next term after 6?
- 23rd February 1981Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 24th February 1981A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 25th February 1981The Sun is much larger than the Earth. State what type of object the Sun is, and name the force that keeps the Earth in orbit around it.
- 26th February 1981Name the type of rock formed when layers of sediment, such as sand or mud, are compressed together over a long period of time.
- 27th February 1981State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 28th February 1981A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.