Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1983 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1983
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1983A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 2nd April 1983Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 3rd April 1983Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 4th April 1983A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 5th April 1983State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 6th April 1983Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 7th April 1983State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 8th April 1983A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 9th April 1983Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 10th April 1983Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 11th April 1983Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 12th April 1983A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 13th April 1983A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 14th April 1983Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
- 15th April 1983Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 16th April 1983Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 17th April 1983Work out 9 x 8.
- 18th April 1983Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 19th April 1983y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 20th April 1983Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 21st April 1983Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 22nd April 1983A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 23rd April 1983State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 24th April 1983The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 25th April 1983Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 26th April 1983A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 27th April 1983Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 28th April 1983Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 29th April 1983State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 30th April 1983Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.