Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1993 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1993
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1993During vigorous exercise, a sprinter's muscles cannot get enough oxygen. Name the substance that builds up in the muscles as a result, and state one effect this has.
- 2nd February 1993The density of olive oil is 0.92 g/cm^3. State, with a reason, whether olive oil would float or sink in water (density 1.0 g/cm^3).
- 3rd February 1993A parcel of mass 2.5 kg is lifted onto a shelf 2 m above the ground. Take g = 10 N/kg and use GPE = mass x g x height. Calculate the gain in gravitational potential energy.
- 4th February 1993A cyclist travels 300 m in 25 s. Calculate her average speed.
- 5th February 1993Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
- 6th February 1993Name the part of a plant cell, not found in an animal cell, that carries out photosynthesis.
- 7th February 1993A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
- 8th February 1993Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Dust rose from the floor, and Elias covered his mouth."
- 9th February 1993Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The old house was SCARY.'
- 10th February 1993Which word from 'the tannoy crackled out another indistinct apology' suggests the announcement was hard to understand?
- 11th February 1993A diver 'counted her breaths, trying to make each one last longer than the last.' What does this suggest about her situation?
- 12th February 1993In a poem, the line "Waves gnaw at the cliff's grey chin" contains an example of which technique?
- 13th February 1993An article states 'Pupils who read for pleasure for just ten minutes a day report feeling calmer.' Name the technique used here.
- 14th February 1993A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
- 15th February 1993An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
- 16th February 1993Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
- 17th February 1993A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
- 18th February 1993A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
- 19th February 1993A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
- 20th February 1993Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 21st February 1993A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 22nd February 1993Work out -3 - 6.
- 23rd February 1993Work out -9 + 15.
- 24th February 1993State one way the xylem is adapted for transporting water up a plant.
- 25th February 1993In a chromatography experiment, the solvent front travels 10 cm and a dye spot travels 4 cm. Calculate the Rf value of the dye.
- 26th February 1993A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 27th February 1993State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 28th February 1993State the name given to a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to the surroundings.