Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 1991 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1991
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1991A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 2nd October 1991In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 3rd October 1991Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 4th October 1991Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 5th October 1991Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 6th October 1991Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 7th October 1991A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 8th October 1991A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 9th October 1991The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.
- 10th October 1991Work out 84 / 12.
- 11th October 1991A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 12th October 1991The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 13th October 1991p = 5, q = -2. Work out the value of 3p + q.
- 14th October 1991A bag has 4 yellow and 6 purple counters. Find the probability of picking a purple counter.
- 15th October 1991Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 16th October 1991A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 17th October 1991Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 18th October 1991State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 19th October 1991State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 20th October 1991Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 21st October 1991A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 22nd October 1991This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 23rd October 1991In an extract, a character 'set down his tools without a word and walked out into the rain.' What might this action suggest about his state of mind?
- 24th October 1991A writer describes a clock as "ticking its patient warning through the empty hall." Name the poetic technique used here.
- 25th October 1991Punctuate this exchange, adding inverted commas, capital letters and any other punctuation needed: are you sure about this asked Leo his sister nodded without looking up
- 26th October 1991Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: The funfair was SCARY.
- 27th October 1991A speaker says 'Ninety per cent of our debate club members say it changed how they see arguments.' Name the technique used here.
- 28th October 1991A campaign letter opens with a short, true story about one family affected by flooding, before giving any statistics. What is this technique called, and why might a writer use it first?
- 29th October 1991Order these integers from smallest to largest: -6, 2, -3, 0, -9
- 30th October 1991Write 0.00042 in standard form.
- 31st October 1991A triangle has base 10 cm and height 7 cm. Work out its area.