Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1989 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1989120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 2nd April 1989State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 3rd April 1989Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 4th April 1989A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 5th April 1989State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
- 6th April 1989State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
- 7th April 1989Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 8th April 1989State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 9th April 1989In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 10th April 1989In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 11th April 1989A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 12th April 1989An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 13th April 1989Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 14th April 1989Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 15th April 1989Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 16th April 1989A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 17th April 1989Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 18th April 1989A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 19th April 1989Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 20th April 1989Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 21st April 1989Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 22nd April 1989Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 23rd April 1989Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 24th April 1989Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 25th April 1989A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 26th April 1989A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 27th April 1989State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 28th April 1989State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 29th April 1989Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 30th April 1989Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.