Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1990 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1990Calculate 74 - 38.
- 2nd September 1990Work out -7 + 15.
- 3rd September 1990A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 4th September 1990Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 5th September 1990State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 6th September 1990A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 7th September 1990State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 8th September 1990Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 9th September 1990A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 10th September 1990A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 11th September 1990Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 12th September 1990Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 13th September 1990Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 14th September 1990A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 15th September 1990A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 16th September 1990Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
- 17th September 1990Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 18th September 1990The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 19th September 1990Work out 9 x 8.
- 20th September 1990Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 21st September 1990y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 22nd September 1990Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 23rd September 1990Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 24th September 1990A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 25th September 1990State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 26th September 1990The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 27th September 1990Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 28th September 1990State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 29th September 1990Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 30th September 1990Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.