Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1982 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1982
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1982A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 2nd September 1982Find 2/5 of 65.
- 3rd September 1982Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 4th September 1982Find 2/9 of 63.
- 5th September 1982Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 6th September 1982A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 7th September 1982Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 8th September 1982In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 9th September 1982A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 10th September 1982Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 11th September 1982Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 12th September 1982Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 13th September 1982A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 14th September 1982State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 15th September 1982Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 16th September 1982Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 17th September 1982In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 18th September 1982Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 19th September 1982Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 20th September 1982Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 21st September 1982Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 22nd September 1982Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 23rd September 1982A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 24th September 1982A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 25th September 1982A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 26th September 1982Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 27th September 1982Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 28th September 1982A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 29th September 1982Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 30th September 1982Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).