Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1984 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1984
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1984A 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.
- 2nd December 1984State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 3rd December 1984Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 4th December 1984State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.
- 5th December 1984State what happens to the current in a series circuit if an extra identical bulb is added, assuming the battery voltage stays the same.
- 6th December 1984Name the organ system that carries electrical signals around the body to allow a fast reflex reaction, such as pulling a hand away from something hot.
- 7th December 1984Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 8th December 1984State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 9th December 1984A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 10th December 1984What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 11th December 1984A 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?
- 12th December 1984Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 13th December 1984Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 14th December 1984Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 15th December 1984Punctuate 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
- 16th December 1984A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.
- 17th December 1984In 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.
- 18th December 1984A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 19th December 1984Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 20th December 1984Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 21st December 1984Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 22nd December 1984Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 23rd December 1984Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 24th December 1984A jacket priced at 84 pounds is increased by 25% for the winter season. Calculate the new price.
- 25th December 1984A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 26th December 1984A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 27th December 1984State the unit normally used for speed in physics, and name one other unit that speed could also correctly be measured in.
- 28th December 1984Two forces of 10 N and 10 N act on an object in exactly opposite directions. Calculate the resultant force.
- 29th December 1984Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 30th December 1984Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 31st December 1984Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: the coach shouted keep going were nearly there