Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1981Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 2nd July 1981After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 3rd July 1981On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
- 4th July 1981A chord divides a circle so that the angle at the centre is 130 degrees. Work out the angle at the circumference subtended by the same chord, on the major arc.
- 5th July 1981Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 6th July 1981A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 240 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 7 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 7th July 1981Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 8th July 1981State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 9th July 1981Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 10th July 1981In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 11th July 1981Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 12th July 1981State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.
- 13th July 1981A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 14th July 1981State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 15th July 1981A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 16th July 1981A factual article about volcanic islands is broken into sections titled 'How islands form', 'Life on the slopes' and 'Living with the risk'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 17th July 1981You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 18th July 1981Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?
- 19th July 1981Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 20th July 1981Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 21st July 1981Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 22nd July 1981A spinner has a probability of 0.3 of landing on red, a probability of 0.45 of landing on blue, and the remaining probability of landing on green. Find the probability of landing on green.
- 23rd July 1981p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 24th July 1981Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 25th July 1981A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 26th July 1981A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
- 27th July 1981A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
- 28th July 1981Simplify 6a + 4b - 2a + 5b.
- 29th July 1981A car depreciates by 15% each year. It is worth 20,000 pounds now. Work out its value after 1 year.
- 30th July 1981Calculate the simple interest earned on 600 pounds saved for 3 years at an annual rate of 4%.
- 31st July 1981On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.