Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1985State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 2nd March 1985Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 3rd March 1985State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 4th March 1985In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 5th March 1985A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 6th March 1985State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 7th March 1985Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 8th March 1985Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 9th March 1985In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 10th March 1985A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 11th March 1985Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 12th March 1985Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 13th March 1985Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 14th March 1985A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 15th March 1985A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 16th March 1985A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 17th March 1985Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 18th March 1985Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 19th March 1985A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 20th March 1985An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 21st March 1985A chord divides a circle so that the angle at the centre is 130 degrees. Work out the angle at the circumference subtended by the same chord, on the major arc.
- 22nd March 1985Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 23rd March 1985A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 240 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 7 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 24th March 1985Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 25th March 1985Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 26th March 1985State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 27th March 1985State whether sound is a transverse wave or a longitudinal wave.
- 28th March 1985Name the organ that produces bile, which helps to digest fats.
- 29th March 1985State whether melting ice is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 30th March 1985State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 31st March 1985State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.