Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1982 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1982
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1982Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 2nd January 1982A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 3rd January 1982Work out -3 - 6.
- 4th January 1982Work out -9 + 15.
- 5th January 1982Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 6th January 1982State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 7th January 1982State the law of reflection.
- 8th January 1982A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
- 9th January 1982Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 10th January 1982A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 11th January 1982A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 12th January 1982Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 13th January 1982Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 14th January 1982What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 15th January 1982Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 16th January 1982A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 17th January 1982Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
- 18th January 1982A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 19th January 1982The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 20th January 1982Work out 40% of 65.
- 21st January 1982A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 22nd January 1982p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 23rd January 1982Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 24th January 1982Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 25th January 1982A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 26th January 1982A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 27th January 1982Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 28th January 1982Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 29th January 1982State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 30th January 1982Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
- 31st January 1982State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.