Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1981Which of the seven life processes describes an organism getting rid of waste products made inside its body?
- 2nd May 1981State the name of the change of state when a solid changes directly into a liquid.
- 3rd May 1981A trolley of mass 20 kg is pushed with a resultant force of 60 N. Use force = mass x acceleration to calculate its acceleration.
- 4th May 1981Name the type of blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart under high pressure.
- 5th May 1981State whether gold is a very reactive or a very unreactive metal, given that it is found in the Earth as the pure metal rather than in a compound.
- 6th May 1981Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.
- 7th May 1981Before starting a watering investigation, a pupil writes this prediction: a plant given more water each day will grow taller than one given less water. State one piece of scientific reasoning that could support this prediction.
- 8th May 1981Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the map in the drawer."
- 9th May 1981Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
- 10th May 1981A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 11th May 1981Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
- 12th May 1981A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 13th May 1981Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 14th May 1981In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 15th May 1981Calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 9 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 16th May 1981Find 30% of 150.
- 17th May 1981Work out 13^2.
- 18th May 1981Find 5/6 of 72.
- 19th May 1981A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 20th May 1981A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 21st May 1981Calculate 74 - 38.
- 22nd May 1981Work out -7 + 15.
- 23rd May 1981A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 24th May 1981A polar bear has thick white fur. State whether this is a structural or a behavioural adaptation, and explain why.
- 25th May 1981State whether reactivity increases or decreases going down Group 1, the alkali metals.
- 26th May 1981An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 27th May 1981Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 28th May 1981A ball is dropped from a height and falls freely towards the ground. State the type of energy the ball gains as it speeds up.
- 29th May 1981A pupil applies a force of 8 N to a spring and it extends by 4 cm. Use spring constant = force / extension to calculate the spring constant, in N/cm.
- 30th May 1981A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 31st May 1981Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'