Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1987 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1987In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 2nd June 1987In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 3rd June 1987A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 4th June 1987An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 5th June 1987Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 6th June 1987Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 7th June 1987Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 8th June 1987A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.
- 9th June 1987Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 10th June 1987A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 11th June 1987Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 12th June 1987A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 13th June 1987The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 14th June 1987Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 15th June 1987Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 16th June 1987A jacket priced at 84 pounds is increased by 25% for the winter season. Calculate the new price.
- 17th June 1987A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 18th June 1987Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 19th June 1987State the unit normally used for speed in physics, and name one other unit that speed could also correctly be measured in.
- 20th June 1987Two forces of 10 N and 10 N act on an object in exactly opposite directions. Calculate the resultant force.
- 21st June 1987Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 22nd June 1987A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 23rd June 1987Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: the coach shouted keep going were nearly there
- 24th June 1987A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 25th June 1987A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 26th June 1987Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 27th June 1987Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 28th June 1987Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 29th June 1987Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade readers to support an animal shelter.
- 30th June 1987Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).