Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 1989 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1989Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 2nd October 1989Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 3rd October 1989State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 4th October 1989Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 5th October 1989State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 6th October 1989Which word means the same as 'ancient' in a sentence describing an old, crumbling castle: 'timeworn', 'modern', 'spacious' or 'lively'?
- 7th October 1989Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: Regular ___ at the piano will improve your technique. (practice / practise)
- 8th October 1989Identify and correct the pronoun error: 'The dog wagged their tail happily.'
- 9th October 1989A poem compares old age to 'a candle guttering low, still giving light.' Name this technique.
- 10th October 1989Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The fire hissed and spat its sparks'?
- 11th October 1989Find and copy one word from 'the mist swallowed the path ahead of him' that gives the mist a human or animal-like quality.
- 12th October 1989This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 13th October 1989A diver signals "all clear" with a steady hand, but his eyes keep darting towards the wreck's dark entrance. Explain what the contrast between his signal and his eyes suggests.
- 14th October 1989Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 15th October 1989Find 1/3 of 96.
- 16th October 1989Work out -12 + 4 x 3.
- 17th October 1989Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
- 18th October 1989Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
- 19th October 1989Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 20th October 1989A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 21st October 1989A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 22nd October 1989Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 23rd October 1989Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 24th October 1989A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 25th October 1989A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 26th October 1989In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 27th October 1989State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 28th October 1989A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
- 29th October 1989A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
- 30th October 1989A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 31st October 1989Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.