Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1985A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 2nd January 1985In 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?
- 3rd January 1985Write one short sentence (no more than five words) suitable for a moment of sudden shock in a story.
- 4th January 1985Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The gates creaked open.
- 5th January 1985What is the effect of directly addressing an audience as 'you' in a speech?
- 6th January 1985Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade readers to support an animal shelter.
- 7th January 1985Express 60 as a product of its prime factors, then use this to find the lowest common multiple (LCM) of 60 and 24.
- 8th January 1985A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 9th January 1985A cafe sells 3 coffees at 2.40 pounds each and 2 teas at 1.60 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 10th January 1985y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 3, y = 45. Work out y when x = 5.
- 11th January 1985A survey asked 30 people how many siblings they have: 9 have 0, 12 have 1, 6 have 2, 3 have 3. Work out the mean number of siblings.
- 12th January 1985A machine produces 480 items in a day that lasts 7.5 hours. Work out the number of items produced per hour.
- 13th January 1985Work out 6^2 - sqrt(49).
- 14th January 1985Write 0.6 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 15th January 1985Two fair coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting at least one tail.
- 16th January 1985Which of the seven life processes describes an organism getting rid of waste products made inside its body?
- 17th January 1985State the name of the change of state when a solid changes directly into a liquid.
- 18th January 1985A trolley of mass 20 kg is pushed with a resultant force of 60 N. Use force = mass x acceleration to calculate its acceleration.
- 19th January 1985A solution turns universal indicator paper red. State whether the solution is acidic, neutral or alkaline.
- 20th January 1985State one disadvantage of burning coal to generate electricity.
- 21st January 1985A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 22nd January 1985In an investigation into reaction time, a pupil's results are 0.18 s, 0.19 s, 0.61 s, 0.18 s and 0.20 s. Identify the anomalous result, and suggest one likely reason it occurred.
- 23rd January 1985Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the map in the drawer."
- 24th January 1985Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
- 25th January 1985A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 26th January 1985Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
- 27th January 1985A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 28th January 1985Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 29th January 1985In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 30th January 1985A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 10 cm, and a height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 31st January 1985Find 30% of 150.