Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1993 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1993
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1993State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 2nd August 1993Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 3rd August 1993A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
- 4th August 1993Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 5th August 1993State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 6th August 1993Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 7th August 1993State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 8th August 1993A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 9th August 1993A 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?
- 10th August 1993In 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?
- 11th August 1993Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 12th August 1993Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 13th August 1993Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 14th August 1993Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 15th August 1993Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 16th August 1993A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 17th August 1993The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.
- 18th August 1993Work out 84 / 12.
- 19th August 1993Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 20th August 1993Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 21st August 1993p = 5, q = -2. Work out the value of 3p + q.
- 22nd August 1993A bag has 4 yellow and 6 purple counters. Find the probability of picking a purple counter.
- 23rd August 1993A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
- 24th August 1993A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 25th August 1993A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 26th August 1993State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 27th August 1993A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 28th August 1993Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 29th August 1993Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 30th August 1993Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 31st August 1993In 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?