Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1985Work out 13^2.
- 2nd February 1985Find 5/6 of 72.
- 3rd February 1985A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 4th February 1985A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 5th February 1985Calculate 74 - 38.
- 6th February 1985Work out -7 + 15.
- 7th February 1985A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 8th February 1985In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 9th February 1985State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 10th February 1985A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
- 11th February 1985State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 12th February 1985State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 13th February 1985Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 14th February 1985A 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?
- 15th February 1985Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 16th February 1985Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 17th February 1985Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 18th February 1985A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 19th February 1985A 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?
- 20th February 1985In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 21st February 1985Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 22nd February 1985A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 23rd February 1985Work out 9 x 8.
- 24th February 1985Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 25th February 1985y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 26th February 1985Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 27th February 1985Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 28th February 1985A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.