Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1990 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1990A car's velocity increases from 5 m/s to 17 m/s in 4 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to calculate its acceleration.
- 2nd April 1990Name the reaction type in which a fuel reacts with oxygen, releasing energy as heat and light.
- 3rd April 1990A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 4th April 1990State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
- 5th April 1990Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Bring your boots shin pads and water bottle to training.
- 6th April 1990In the sentence 'The old clock in the hallway ticked with the patience of a watchman,' which word gives the clock a human quality?
- 7th April 1990A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
- 8th April 1990Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
- 9th April 1990Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
- 10th April 1990Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
- 11th April 1990Name the persuasive technique used in this slogan: 'Save money. Save time. Save the planet.'
- 12th April 1990Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 13th April 1990The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Work out the size of the largest angle.
- 14th April 1990Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 15th April 1990Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 16th April 1990A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 17th April 1990Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 18th April 1990A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 19th April 1990A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 20th April 1990A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 21st April 1990Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 22nd April 1990A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 23rd April 1990State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 24th April 1990State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
- 25th April 1990State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
- 26th April 1990State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.
- 27th April 1990A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 28th April 1990Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 29th April 1990Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 30th April 1990A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?