Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1988 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1988A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 2nd November 1988Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 3rd November 1988Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 4th November 1988Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 5th November 1988A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 6th November 1988A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 7th November 1988Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 8th November 1988Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 9th November 1988A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 10th November 1988Work out 9 x 8.
- 11th November 1988Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 12th November 1988y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 13th November 1988Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 14th November 1988Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 15th November 1988A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 16th November 1988State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 17th November 1988A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 18th November 1988State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 19th November 1988Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 20th November 1988Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 21st November 1988Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 22nd November 1988Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 23rd November 1988Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 24th November 1988In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 25th November 1988A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 26th November 1988Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 27th November 1988Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 28th November 1988Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 29th November 1988A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 30th November 1988A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?