Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1992 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1992
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1992A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 2nd July 1992Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 3rd July 1992In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 4th July 1992A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 10 cm, and a height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 5th July 1992Find 30% of 150.
- 6th July 1992Work out 13^2.
- 7th July 1992Find 5/6 of 72.
- 8th July 1992A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 9th July 1992A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 10th July 1992Calculate 74 - 38.
- 11th July 1992Work out -7 + 15.
- 12th July 1992A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 13th July 1992Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 14th July 1992Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
- 15th July 1992A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
- 16th July 1992State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 17th July 1992Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 18th July 1992Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
- 19th July 1992A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 20th July 1992Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 21st July 1992Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 22nd July 1992Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 23rd July 1992A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 24th July 1992A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 25th July 1992In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 26th July 1992Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 27th July 1992Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
- 28th July 1992Work out 9 x 8.
- 29th July 1992Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 30th July 1992y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 31st July 1992Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.