Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1988 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1988Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 2nd August 1988A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 3rd August 1988A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 4th August 1988Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 5th August 1988A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 6th August 1988Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 7th August 1988Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 8th August 1988Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 9th August 1988What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 10th August 1988Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
- 11th August 1988A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 12th August 1988Find 35% of 180.
- 13th August 1988Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 14th August 1988Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 15th August 1988Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 16th August 1988A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 17th August 1988A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 18th August 1988A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 19th August 1988A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 20th August 1988A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 21st August 1988A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
- 22nd August 1988Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 23rd August 1988State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 24th August 1988Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
- 25th August 1988A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.
- 26th August 1988A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 27th August 1988What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 28th August 1988A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 29th August 1988Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 30th August 1988Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 31st August 1988Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."