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July 1991 5-a-day

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July 1991

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st July 1991Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The two teams kits were both muddy after the match. (There is one kit set per team, and two teams in total.)
  2. 2nd July 1991A four-mark question asks you to explain the effect of the writer's language in one paragraph. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
  3. 3rd July 1991A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "silent." Which of these fits: "hushed", "loud", "busy" or "bright"?
  4. 4th July 1991Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
  5. 5th July 1991Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go near the big wheel warned tom its not safe
  6. 6th July 1991A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
  7. 7th July 1991A speech opens with the line: 'Imagine losing your home in a single night.' What technique is this, and why is it an effective opening?
  8. 8th July 1991List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
  9. 9th July 1991A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  10. 10th July 1991Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
  11. 11th July 1991A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
  12. 12th July 1991A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
  13. 13th July 1991Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
  14. 14th July 1991Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
  15. 15th July 1991Simplify the ratio 45:60.
  16. 16th July 1991A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
  17. 17th July 1991A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
  18. 18th July 1991Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
  19. 19th July 1991Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
  20. 20th July 1991State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
  21. 21st July 1991Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
  22. 22nd July 1991A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
  23. 23rd July 1991A pupil uses a stopwatch to measure how long a candle takes to burn down by 1 cm, but forgets to shield the candle from a draught in the room. State whether this makes the result less reliable or less valid, and explain your answer.
  24. 24th July 1991Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
  25. 25th July 1991Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
  26. 26th July 1991In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
  27. 27th July 1991Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
  28. 28th July 1991A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
  29. 29th July 1991An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
  30. 30th July 1991A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
  31. 31st July 1991A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Calculate its volume.