Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1983 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1983
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1983Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 2nd January 1983State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 3rd January 1983In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 4th January 1983Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 5th January 1983Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 6th January 1983Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 7th January 1983A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 8th January 1983A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 9th January 1983Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 10th January 1983A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 11th January 1983Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 12th January 1983Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 13th January 1983Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 14th January 1983A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 15th January 1983On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 16th January 1983Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 17th January 1983Find 35% of 180.
- 18th January 1983A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 19th January 1983An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 20th January 1983Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 21st January 1983A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 22nd January 1983A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 23rd January 1983A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 24th January 1983Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 25th January 1983State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 26th January 1983A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 27th January 1983Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 28th January 1983A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 29th January 1983State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 30th January 1983State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 31st January 1983A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.