Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1987 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1987Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.
- 2nd April 1987A pack of 24 pencils costs 3.60 pounds. Work out the cost of one pencil.
- 3rd April 1987Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 4th April 1987A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 5th April 19873 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 6th April 1987Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 7th April 1987Work out 9 x 8.
- 8th April 1987A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 9th April 1987Work out 15% of 60.
- 10th April 1987In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 11th April 1987State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 12th April 1987Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 13th April 1987State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 14th April 1987State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 15th April 1987Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 16th April 1987A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 17th April 1987Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 18th April 1987Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 19th April 1987Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 20th April 1987A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 21st April 1987A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 22nd April 1987This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 23rd April 1987In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 24th April 1987A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 25th April 1987Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 26th April 1987Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 27th April 1987A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 28th April 1987A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 29th April 1987A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 30th April 1987A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.