Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1985A runner covers 400 m in 50 seconds at a constant speed. Use speed = distance / time to calculate her speed.
- 2nd December 1985Some endothermic reactions cause the temperature of their surroundings to fall. Explain, in terms of energy, why this happens.
- 3rd December 1985A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 4th December 1985State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
- 5th December 1985Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
- 6th December 1985A four-mark question asks you to explain the effect of the writer's language in one paragraph. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 7th December 1985A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "silent." Which of these fits: "hushed", "loud", "busy" or "bright"?
- 8th December 1985Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
- 9th December 1985Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go near the big wheel warned tom its not safe
- 10th December 1985A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 11th December 1985What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 12th December 1985List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 13th December 1985The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Work out the size of the largest angle.
- 14th December 1985Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 15th December 1985A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 16th December 1985A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 17th December 1985Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 18th December 1985Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 19th December 1985Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 20th December 1985A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 21st December 1985A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 22nd December 1985Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 23rd December 1985Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 24th December 1985Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 25th December 1985Name one renewable energy resource.
- 26th December 1985State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.
- 27th December 1985A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 28th December 1985Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 29th December 1985Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 30th December 1985In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 31st December 1985Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.