Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1990 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1990Work out 2/5 of 65.
- 2nd December 1990Five pupils recorded the number of minutes they spent reading yesterday: 9, 13, 20, 11, 17. Find the mean number of minutes.
- 3rd December 1990Name the organelle found in both plant and animal cells that is the site of aerobic respiration.
- 4th December 1990A block of wood has a mass of 60 g and a volume of 80 cm^3. Calculate its density.
- 5th December 1990A farmer weighing 900 N stands on the ground. Her boots have a total sole area of 0.03 m^2. Use pressure = force / area to calculate the pressure she exerts on the ground, giving your answer in Pa.
- 6th December 1990Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 7th December 1990Name one renewable energy resource.
- 8th December 1990Name the part of a plant cell, not found in an animal cell, that carries out photosynthesis.
- 9th December 1990A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 10th December 1990Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the handle was rusted solid, the door creaked open at last."
- 11th December 1990Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: hurry up whispered Kofi we havent got much time
- 12th December 1990A question asks you to 'state one reason why the train was delayed, using evidence from the text.' What kind of answer is required?
- 13th December 1990A diver notices 'a single brass buckle winking in the torchlight.' Which word suggests the buckle is briefly catching and reflecting the light?
- 14th December 1990In the phrase "silent, secret snow", which technique is being used?
- 15th December 1990What is a counter-argument, and why might a writer include one?
- 16th December 1990In the phrase "silent, snow-hushed streets", which technique is being used?
- 17th December 1990Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.
- 18th December 1990A pack of 24 pencils costs 3.60 pounds. Work out the cost of one pencil.
- 19th December 1990Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 20th December 1990A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 21st December 19903 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 22nd December 1990Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 23rd December 1990Work out 9 x 8.
- 24th December 1990A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 25th December 1990Work out 15% of 60.
- 26th December 1990State one way the xylem is adapted for transporting water up a plant.
- 27th December 1990In a chromatography experiment, the solvent front travels 10 cm and a dye spot travels 4 cm. Calculate the Rf value of the dye.
- 28th December 1990A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
- 29th December 1990Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 30th December 1990State the name given to a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to the surroundings.
- 31st December 1990State the products formed when a metal reacts with an acid.