Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1992 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1992
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1992Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 2nd January 1992Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 3rd January 1992Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 4th January 1992A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 5th January 1992Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
- 6th January 1992A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 7th January 1992Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 8th January 1992Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 9th January 1992Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 10th January 1992Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 11th January 1992Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 12th January 1992A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 13th January 1992Work out 9 x 7.
- 14th January 1992Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 15th January 1992State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 16th January 1992State whether the north pole of one bar magnet placed near the north pole of a second bar magnet will attract or repel.
- 17th January 1992A solution has pH 10. State whether it is acidic, neutral or alkaline.
- 18th January 1992A diver swims from the surface down to a depth of 10 m in a swimming pool. State how the water pressure on her body changes as she swims deeper, and give a reason.
- 19th January 1992Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 20th January 1992On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 21st January 1992Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 22nd January 1992A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 23rd January 1992A travel brochure and a science textbook both describe coral reefs. Which is more likely to use exaggerated, emotive language, and why?
- 24th January 1992A leaflet states 'You could help save a hundred bottles a year.' Which word directly addresses the reader?
- 25th January 1992Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The rain fell steadily.'
- 26th January 1992Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the suitcase on the platform."
- 27th January 1992Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Crates of fruit lined the pavement."
- 28th January 1992A survey of 40 students' favourite sport is shown in a pie chart. If football takes up a sector of 90 degrees, what percentage of students chose football?
- 29th January 1992Solve x^2 - 5x + 6 = 0.
- 30th January 1992A survey asked 25 people how many books they read last month: 6 people read 0, 10 read 1, 6 read 2, 3 read 3. Work out the mean number of books read.
- 31st January 1992Work out 60% of 45.