Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1988 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1988A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 2nd February 1988A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 3rd February 1988State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
- 4th February 1988In the sentence "The exhausted runner collapsed across the finish line," what word class is "exhausted"?
- 5th February 1988In an extract, a character 'set down his tools without a word and walked out into the rain.' What might this action suggest about his state of mind?
- 6th February 1988A writer describes a clock as "ticking its patient warning through the empty hall." Name the poetic technique used here.
- 7th February 1988Punctuate this exchange, adding inverted commas, capital letters and any other punctuation needed: are you sure about this asked Leo his sister nodded without looking up
- 8th February 1988Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: The funfair was SCARY.
- 9th February 1988A speaker says 'Ninety per cent of our debate club members say it changed how they see arguments.' Name the technique used here.
- 10th February 1988Is the claim 'this is the most dangerous road crossing in the whole town' a fact or an opinion? Explain your answer.
- 11th February 1988Order these integers from smallest to largest: -6, 2, -3, 0, -9
- 12th February 1988The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Work out the size of the largest angle.
- 13th February 1988A triangle has base 10 cm and height 7 cm. Work out its area.
- 14th February 1988p is inversely proportional to q^2. When q = 2, p = 18. Work out p when q = 3.
- 15th February 1988The nth term of a sequence is 6n - 4. Work out the 12th term.
- 16th February 1988A car journey of 156 miles takes 2.4 hours. Work out the average speed, to the nearest mile per hour.
- 17th February 1988A rectangle has a perimeter of 38 cm and a width of 6.5 cm. Work out its length.
- 18th February 1988Find the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 7 cm.
- 19th February 1988A box contains 7 yellow pencils, 5 blue pencils and 3 green pencils. A pencil is picked at random. Find the probability that it is not blue.
- 20th February 1988State one structure found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
- 21st February 1988A sample of matter has particles that are far apart and moving quickly in random directions. State which state of matter this describes.
- 22nd February 1988In a tug of war, Team X pulls with a force of 640 N and Team Y pulls with a force of 590 N in the opposite direction. Calculate the resultant force acting on the rope.
- 23rd February 1988A cyclist travels 300 m in 25 s. Calculate her average speed.
- 24th February 1988Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
- 25th February 1988State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.
- 26th February 1988A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
- 27th February 1988Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
- 28th February 1988Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
- 29th February 1988A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.