Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1990 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1990Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 2nd July 1990A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 3rd July 1990A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
- 4th July 1990A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.
- 5th July 1990A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 6th July 1990What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 7th July 1990A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 8th July 1990Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 9th July 1990Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 10th July 1990Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 11th July 1990Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 12th July 1990Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 13th July 1990In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 14th July 1990A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 15th July 1990Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 16th July 1990A fair coin is flipped and a fair six-sided dice is rolled at the same time. Work out the probability of getting heads on the coin and a number greater than 4 on the dice.
- 17th July 1990Femi can complete a job alone in 2 hours, Grace can complete the same job alone in 3 hours, and Hassan can complete it alone in 6 hours. Working together at these constant rates, how long will it take them to complete the job?
- 18th July 1990Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 19th July 1990Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 20th July 1990A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 21st July 1990State whether human eye colour is an example of inherited variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 22nd July 1990State whether an exothermic reaction transfers energy to, or takes in energy from, the surroundings.
- 23rd July 1990A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 24th July 1990A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 25th July 1990State the unit used to measure electric current.
- 26th July 1990State the name of the force that acts to slow down a moving object due to contact between two surfaces.
- 27th July 1990In the sentence "The exhausted runner collapsed across the finish line," what word class is "exhausted"?
- 28th July 1990A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 29th July 1990In an extract, a character "kept glancing at the door and twisting the strap of her bag." What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 30th July 1990Write one short sentence (no more than five words) suitable for a moment of sudden shock in a story.
- 31st July 1990Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The gates creaked open.