Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1983 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1983
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1983What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 2nd February 1983A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 3rd February 1983Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 4th February 1983Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 5th February 1983Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 6th February 1983Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 7th February 1983Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 8th February 1983In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 9th February 1983A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 10th February 1983Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 11th February 1983A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 12th February 1983The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 13th February 1983Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 14th February 1983Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 15th February 1983A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 16th February 1983A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 17th February 1983Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 18th February 1983A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 19th February 1983A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 20th February 1983Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 21st February 1983A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 22nd February 1983In the sentence "The exhausted runner collapsed across the finish line," what word class is "exhausted"?
- 23rd February 1983A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 24th February 1983In an extract, a character "kept glancing at the door and twisting the strap of her bag." What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 25th February 1983Write one short sentence (no more than five words) suitable for a moment of sudden shock in a story.
- 26th February 1983Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The gates creaked open.
- 27th February 1983What is the effect of directly addressing an audience as 'you' in a speech?
- 28th February 1983Is the claim 'this is the most dangerous road crossing in the whole town' a fact or an opinion? Explain your answer.