Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1987 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1987Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 2nd August 1987Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 3rd August 1987A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
- 4th August 1987State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 5th August 1987Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 6th August 1987State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 7th August 1987A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 8th August 1987Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 9th August 1987Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 10th August 1987What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 11th August 1987Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 12th August 1987A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 13th August 1987In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 14th August 1987A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 15th August 1987Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 16th August 1987Work out 40% of 65.
- 17th August 1987A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 18th August 1987p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 19th August 1987Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 20th August 1987Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 21st August 1987A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 22nd August 1987A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 23rd August 1987Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 24th August 1987Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 25th August 1987A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 26th August 1987A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 27th August 1987State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 28th August 1987State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 29th August 1987A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 30th August 1987A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 31st August 1987What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?