Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1990 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1990Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 2nd February 1990In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 3rd February 1990A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 4th February 1990A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
- 5th February 1990Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 6th February 1990Find 2/9 of 63.
- 7th February 1990Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 8th February 1990A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 9th February 1990Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 10th February 1990A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 11th February 1990A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 12th February 1990Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 13th February 1990Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 14th February 1990Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 15th February 1990A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 16th February 1990State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 17th February 1990State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 18th February 1990Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 19th February 1990In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 20th February 1990Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 21st February 1990Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 22nd February 1990Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 23rd February 1990Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 24th February 1990Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 25th February 1990A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 26th February 1990A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 27th February 1990A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 28th February 1990Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.