Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1983 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1983
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1983Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 2nd August 1983Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 3rd August 1983A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 4th August 1983A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 5th August 1983Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Yesterday, Priya walks to school and meets her friend Tom.
- 6th August 1983In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 7th August 1983A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
- 8th August 1983Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 9th August 1983Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 10th August 1983A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 11th August 1983A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 12th August 1983A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 13th August 1983A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 14th August 1983A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 15th August 1983The first three terms of the triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6. If the pattern continues in the same way, what is the next term after 6?
- 16th August 1983Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 17th August 1983Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 18th August 1983The Sun is much larger than the Earth. State what type of object the Sun is, and name the force that keeps the Earth in orbit around it.
- 19th August 1983Name the type of rock formed when layers of sediment, such as sand or mud, are compressed together over a long period of time.
- 20th August 1983State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 21st August 1983A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 22nd August 1983Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 23rd August 1983Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 24th August 1983What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 25th August 1983Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 26th August 1983Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 27th August 1983Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 28th August 1983What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 29th August 1983Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
- 30th August 1983A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 31st August 1983Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.