Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1981State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
- 2nd November 1981State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
- 3rd November 1981A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
- 4th November 1981A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.
- 5th November 1981In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 6th November 1981In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 7th November 1981A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 8th November 1981An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 9th November 1981Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 10th November 1981Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 11th November 1981Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 12th November 1981A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 13th November 1981Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 14th November 1981A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 15th November 1981Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 16th November 1981A fair coin is flipped and a fair six-sided dice is rolled at the same time. Work out the probability of getting heads on the coin and a number greater than 4 on the dice.
- 17th November 1981Femi can complete a job alone in 2 hours, Grace can complete the same job alone in 3 hours, and Hassan can complete it alone in 6 hours. Working together at these constant rates, how long will it take them to complete the job?
- 18th November 1981Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 19th November 1981Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 20th November 1981Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 21st November 1981State whether human eye colour is an example of inherited variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 22nd November 1981State whether an exothermic reaction transfers energy to, or takes in energy from, the surroundings.
- 23rd November 1981State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 24th November 1981State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 25th November 1981State the unit used to measure electric current.
- 26th November 1981State the name of the force that acts to slow down a moving object due to contact between two surfaces.
- 27th November 1981This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 28th November 1981A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 29th November 1981A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 30th November 1981Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?