Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1992 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1992
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1992Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 2nd August 1992At a small maths club meeting, every one of the 8 members shakes hands with every other member exactly once. Work out the total number of handshakes.
- 3rd August 1992State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 4th August 1992Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 5th August 1992A food sample turns from blue to brick-red when Benedict's solution is added and the mixture is heated. State which nutrient this positive result shows is present.
- 6th August 1992State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 7th August 1992A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 8th August 1992State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 9th August 1992A pupil measures the volume of a gas produced in a reaction every 30 seconds. State whether the volume of gas is the independent or the dependent variable.
- 10th August 1992Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 11th August 1992In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 12th August 1992A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 13th August 1992Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 14th August 1992Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 15th August 1992Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 16th August 1992A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 17th August 1992A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 18th August 1992A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 19th August 1992A survey asked 20 people how many pets they own: 5 people own 0 pets, 8 own 1 pet, 4 own 2 pets, and 3 own 3 pets. Work out the mean number of pets owned.
- 20th August 1992Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 21st August 1992A recipe for 8 people uses flour, sugar and butter in the ratio 4 : 3 : 1 by weight, totalling 800 g. Work out how many grams of sugar are needed to make the recipe for 12 people.
- 22nd August 1992A circle has a radius of 10 cm. Work out the area of a sector with an angle of 72 degrees at the centre, giving your answer to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 23rd August 1992A chord divides a circle so that the angle at the centre is 130 degrees. Work out the angle at the circumference subtended by the same chord, on the major arc.
- 24th August 1992Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 25th August 1992A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 240 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 7 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 26th August 1992Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 27th August 1992Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 28th August 1992Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 29th August 1992State whether sound is a transverse wave or a longitudinal wave.
- 30th August 1992Name the organ that produces bile, which helps to digest fats.
- 31st August 1992State whether melting ice is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.