Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1985A parcel of mass 2.5 kg is lifted onto a shelf 2 m above the ground. Take g = 10 N/kg and use GPE = mass x g x height. Calculate the gain in gravitational potential energy.
- 2nd September 1985A cyclist travels 300 m in 25 s. Calculate her average speed.
- 3rd September 1985Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
- 4th September 1985Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.
- 5th September 1985A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
- 6th September 1985Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Dust rose from the floor, and Elias covered his mouth."
- 7th September 1985Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The old house was SCARY.'
- 8th September 1985Which word from 'the tannoy crackled out another indistinct apology' suggests the announcement was hard to understand?
- 9th September 1985A diver 'counted her breaths, trying to make each one last longer than the last.' What does this suggest about her situation?
- 10th September 1985In a poem, the line "Waves gnaw at the cliff's grey chin" contains an example of which technique?
- 11th September 1985An article states 'Pupils who read for pleasure for just ten minutes a day report feeling calmer.' Name the technique used here.
- 12th September 1985A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
- 13th September 1985An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
- 14th September 1985Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
- 15th September 1985A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
- 16th September 1985A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
- 17th September 1985A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
- 18th September 1985Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 19th September 1985A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 20th September 1985Work out -3 - 6.
- 21st September 1985Work out -9 + 15.
- 22nd September 1985A polar bear has thick white fur. State whether this is a structural or a behavioural adaptation, and explain why.
- 23rd September 1985State whether reactivity increases or decreases going down Group 1, the alkali metals.
- 24th September 1985A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 25th September 1985State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 26th September 1985A ball is dropped from a height and falls freely towards the ground. State the type of energy the ball gains as it speeds up.
- 27th September 1985A pupil applies a force of 8 N to a spring and it extends by 4 cm. Use spring constant = force / extension to calculate the spring constant, in N/cm.
- 28th September 1985A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 29th September 1985Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 30th September 1985Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)