Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1991 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1991
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1991Before starting a watering investigation, a pupil writes this prediction: a plant given more water each day will grow taller than one given less water. State one piece of scientific reasoning that could support this prediction.
- 2nd April 1991Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Dust rose from the floor, and Elias covered his mouth."
- 3rd April 1991Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The old house was SCARY.'
- 4th April 1991Which word from 'the tannoy crackled out another indistinct apology' suggests the announcement was hard to understand?
- 5th April 1991A diver 'counted her breaths, trying to make each one last longer than the last.' What does this suggest about her situation?
- 6th April 1991In a poem, the line "Waves gnaw at the cliff's grey chin" contains an example of which technique?
- 7th April 1991An article states 'Pupils who read for pleasure for just ten minutes a day report feeling calmer.' Name the technique used here.
- 8th April 1991A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
- 9th April 1991Calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 9 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 10th April 1991Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
- 11th April 1991A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
- 12th April 1991A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
- 13th April 1991A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
- 14th April 1991Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 15th April 1991A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 16th April 1991Work out -3 - 6.
- 17th April 1991Work out -9 + 15.
- 18th April 1991State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 19th April 1991State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 20th April 1991An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 21st April 1991Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 22nd April 1991A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 23rd April 1991Name the three states of matter.
- 24th April 1991A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 25th April 1991Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 26th April 1991Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 27th April 1991What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 28th April 1991Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 29th April 1991A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 30th April 1991Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)