Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1986Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 2nd June 1986Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 3rd June 1986Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 4th June 1986In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 5th June 1986Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 6th June 1986Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 7th June 1986Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 8th June 1986Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 9th June 1986Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 10th June 1986A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 11th June 1986A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 12th June 1986A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 13th June 1986Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 14th June 1986Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 15th June 1986Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 16th June 1986Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 17th June 1986Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 18th June 1986A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 19th June 1986Work out 9 x 7.
- 20th June 1986A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 21st June 1986A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 22nd June 1986In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 23rd June 1986Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 24th June 1986State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.
- 25th June 1986Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
- 26th June 1986A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.
- 27th June 1986Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 28th June 1986A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 29th June 1986A travel brochure and a science textbook both describe coral reefs. Which is more likely to use exaggerated, emotive language, and why?
- 30th June 1986A leaflet states 'You could help save a hundred bottles a year.' Which word directly addresses the reader?