Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1990 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1990Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 2nd June 1990Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 3rd June 1990At a small maths club meeting, every one of the 8 members shakes hands with every other member exactly once. Work out the total number of handshakes.
- 4th June 1990Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 5th June 1990Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 6th June 1990A food sample turns from blue to brick-red when Benedict's solution is added and the mixture is heated. State which nutrient this positive result shows is present.
- 7th June 1990State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 8th June 1990Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 9th June 1990Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 10th June 1990A pupil measures the volume of a gas produced in a reaction every 30 seconds. State whether the volume of gas is the independent or the dependent variable.
- 11th June 1990A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 12th June 1990A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 13th June 1990Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 14th June 1990A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 15th June 1990Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 16th June 1990Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 17th June 1990Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 18th June 1990A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 19th June 1990On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 20th June 1990A survey asked 20 people how many pets they own: 5 people own 0 pets, 8 own 1 pet, 4 own 2 pets, and 3 own 3 pets. Work out the mean number of pets owned.
- 21st June 1990Find 35% of 180.
- 22nd June 1990A recipe for 8 people uses flour, sugar and butter in the ratio 4 : 3 : 1 by weight, totalling 800 g. Work out how many grams of sugar are needed to make the recipe for 12 people.
- 23rd June 1990A circle has a radius of 10 cm. Work out the area of a sector with an angle of 72 degrees at the centre, giving your answer to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 24th June 1990Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 25th June 1990A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 26th June 1990A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 27th June 1990A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 28th June 1990Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 29th June 1990Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 30th June 1990A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.