Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1985A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 2nd August 1985Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 3rd August 1985A scatter graph plots the number of hours 10 students spent revising against their test scores. The points show that more hours of revision is generally associated with a higher test score, though not perfectly. Describe the type of correlation shown, and state one thing this correlation does not prove.
- 4th August 1985Simplify (3x^2 y^3)^2 divided by 9x^3 y^4, giving your answer as simply as possible.
- 5th August 1985Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 6th August 1985Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 7th August 1985A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 8th August 1985Name the specialised cell in humans that is adapted with a long tail and many mitochondria to swim toward an egg cell.
- 9th August 1985State what happens to a catalyst during a chemical reaction.
- 10th August 1985A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 11th August 1985A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 12th August 1985A trolley of mass 2 kg is raised to a height of 5 m. Use GPE = mass x gravitational field strength x height (g = 10 N/kg) to calculate its gravitational potential energy.
- 13th August 1985Name the planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
- 14th August 1985In the sentence "The exhausted runner collapsed across the finish line," what word class is "exhausted"?
- 15th August 1985A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 16th August 1985A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 17th August 1985Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 18th August 1985Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 19th August 1985Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 20th August 1985Is the claim 'this is the most dangerous road crossing in the whole town' a fact or an opinion? Explain your answer.
- 21st August 1985Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 22nd August 1985p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 4, p = 15. Work out the value of p when q = 10.
- 23rd August 1985Find 3/8 of 64.
- 24th August 1985Write 0.000078 in standard form.
- 25th August 1985A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 26th August 1985Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.
- 27th August 1985Increase 240 pounds by 12%.
- 28th August 1985Work out 312 divided by 8, using a written method.
- 29th August 1985The list shows the number of pets owned by 9 pupils: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 0, 1. Write down the mode.
- 30th August 1985During vigorous exercise, a sprinter's muscles cannot get enough oxygen. Name the substance that builds up in the muscles as a result, and state one effect this has.
- 31st August 1985The density of olive oil is 0.92 g/cm^3. State, with a reason, whether olive oil would float or sink in water (density 1.0 g/cm^3).