Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1985Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 2nd June 1985Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 3rd June 1985State why an astronaut in open space, far from any planet or star, cannot hear an explosion happening nearby.
- 4th June 1985Name the green pigment found in chloroplasts that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 5th June 1985Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 6th June 1985State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 7th June 1985A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 8th June 1985Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 9th June 1985Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 10th June 1985Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 11th June 1985A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 12th June 1985A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 13th June 1985Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Please bring your pencil case ruler and calculator to the exam.
- 14th June 1985In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 15th June 1985Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 16th June 1985Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 17th June 1985Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 18th June 1985A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 19th June 1985A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 20th June 1985A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 21st June 1985A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 22nd June 1985A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 23rd June 1985Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 24th June 1985Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 25th June 1985A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 26th June 1985Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 27th June 1985Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 28th June 1985State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 29th June 1985A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 30th June 1985Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?