Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1986A pupil is choosing between two thermometers to measure a temperature change of about 5 degrees C: one has markings every 2 degrees C, and the other has markings every 0.2 degrees C. State which thermometer would give the more precise reading, and explain why.
- 2nd December 1986Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the map in the drawer."
- 3rd December 1986Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
- 4th December 1986A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 5th December 1986Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
- 6th December 1986A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 7th December 1986Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 8th December 1986In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 9th December 1986A triangular prism has a cross-sectional area of 15 cm^2 and a length of 12 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 10th December 1986Find 30% of 150.
- 11th December 1986Work out 13^2.
- 12th December 1986Find 5/6 of 72.
- 13th December 1986A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 14th December 1986A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 15th December 1986Calculate 74 - 38.
- 16th December 1986Work out -7 + 15.
- 17th December 1986A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 18th December 1986State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 19th December 1986State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 20th December 1986State the law of reflection.
- 21st December 1986A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
- 22nd December 1986A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 23rd December 1986Name the three states of matter.
- 24th December 1986A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 25th December 1986Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 26th December 1986Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 27th December 1986Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 28th December 1986A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 29th December 1986A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 30th December 1986Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
- 31st December 1986Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?