Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1989 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1989Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: hurry up whispered Kofi we havent got much time
- 2nd February 1989A question asks you to 'state one reason why the train was delayed, using evidence from the text.' What kind of answer is required?
- 3rd February 1989A diver notices 'a single brass buckle winking in the torchlight.' Which word suggests the buckle is briefly catching and reflecting the light?
- 4th February 1989In the phrase "silent, secret snow", which technique is being used?
- 5th February 1989What is a counter-argument, and why might a writer include one?
- 6th February 1989In the phrase "silent, snow-hushed streets", which technique is being used?
- 7th February 1989A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 8th February 1989A pack of 24 pencils costs 3.60 pounds. Work out the cost of one pencil.
- 9th February 1989Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 10th February 1989A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 11th February 19893 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 12th February 1989Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 13th February 1989Work out 9 x 8.
- 14th February 1989A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 15th February 1989Work out 15% of 60.
- 16th February 1989State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 17th February 1989State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 18th February 1989State whether the Earth's day (one full rotation on its axis) or the Earth's year (one full orbit of the Sun) takes longer.
- 19th February 1989A sound wave has a high frequency. State whether this means it has a high pitch or a low pitch.
- 20th February 1989A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 21st February 1989Name the three states of matter.
- 22nd February 1989A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 23rd February 1989Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 24th February 1989Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 25th February 1989Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 26th February 1989A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 27th February 1989A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 28th February 1989Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.