Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1986A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
- 2nd March 1986Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 3rd March 1986State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 4th March 1986A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
- 5th March 1986A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.
- 6th March 1986A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 7th March 1986A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 8th March 1986In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 9th March 1986Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 10th March 1986Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 11th March 1986Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 12th March 1986Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 13th March 1986Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 14th March 1986A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 15th March 1986The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.
- 16th March 1986Work out 84 / 12.
- 17th March 1986A fair coin is flipped and a fair six-sided dice is rolled at the same time. Work out the probability of getting heads on the coin and a number greater than 4 on the dice.
- 18th March 1986Femi can complete a job alone in 2 hours, Grace can complete the same job alone in 3 hours, and Hassan can complete it alone in 6 hours. Working together at these constant rates, how long will it take them to complete the job?
- 19th March 1986p = 5, q = -2. Work out the value of 3p + q.
- 20th March 1986A bag has 4 yellow and 6 purple counters. Find the probability of picking a purple counter.
- 21st March 1986A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
- 22nd March 1986State whether human eye colour is an example of inherited variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 23rd March 1986State whether an exothermic reaction transfers energy to, or takes in energy from, the surroundings.
- 24th March 1986State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 25th March 1986A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 26th March 1986State the unit used to measure electric current.
- 27th March 1986State the name of the force that acts to slow down a moving object due to contact between two surfaces.
- 28th March 1986Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 29th March 1986In an extract, a character 'set down his tools without a word and walked out into the rain.' What might this action suggest about his state of mind?
- 30th March 1986A writer describes a clock as "ticking its patient warning through the empty hall." Name the poetic technique used here.
- 31st March 1986Punctuate this exchange, adding inverted commas, capital letters and any other punctuation needed: are you sure about this asked Leo his sister nodded without looking up