Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1984 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1984
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1984A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 2nd February 1984A speech opens with the line: 'Imagine losing your home in a single night.' What technique is this, and why is it an effective opening?
- 3rd February 1984List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 4th February 1984y is directly proportional to x. When x = 5, y = 30. Work out the value of y when x = 8.
- 5th February 1984Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 6th February 1984A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 7th February 1984A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 8th February 1984Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 9th February 1984Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 10th February 1984Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 11th February 1984A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 12th February 1984A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 13th February 1984Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 14th February 1984Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 15th February 1984State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 16th February 1984Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
- 17th February 1984State the name given to elements found in Group 1 of the periodic table.
- 18th February 1984A pupil uses a stopwatch to measure how long a candle takes to burn down by 1 cm, but forgets to shield the candle from a draught in the room. State whether this makes the result less reliable or less valid, and explain your answer.
- 19th February 1984Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 20th February 1984Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 21st February 1984In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 22nd February 1984Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 23rd February 1984A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 24th February 1984An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 25th February 1984A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 26th February 1984A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 27th February 1984Work out 12 x 7.
- 28th February 1984Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 29th February 1984Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.