Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1993 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1993
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1993A writer describes a clock as "ticking its patient warning through the empty hall." Name the poetic technique used here.
- 2nd September 1993Punctuate this exchange, adding inverted commas, capital letters and any other punctuation needed: are you sure about this asked Leo his sister nodded without looking up
- 3rd September 1993Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: The funfair was SCARY.
- 4th September 1993A speaker says 'Ninety per cent of our debate club members say it changed how they see arguments.' Name the technique used here.
- 5th September 1993A charity advert says: 'You could change a child's life today.' Which word directly addresses the reader, and what effect does this have?
- 6th September 1993Order these integers from smallest to largest: -6, 2, -3, 0, -9
- 7th September 1993A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 8th September 1993A triangle has base 10 cm and height 7 cm. Work out its area.
- 9th September 1993p is inversely proportional to q^2. When q = 2, p = 18. Work out p when q = 3.
- 10th September 1993The nth term of a sequence is 6n - 4. Work out the 12th term.
- 11th September 1993A car journey of 156 miles takes 2.4 hours. Work out the average speed, to the nearest mile per hour.
- 12th September 1993A rectangle has a perimeter of 38 cm and a width of 6.5 cm. Work out its length.
- 13th September 1993Find the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 7 cm.
- 14th September 1993A box contains 7 yellow pencils, 5 blue pencils and 3 green pencils. A pencil is picked at random. Find the probability that it is not blue.
- 15th September 1993State one structure found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
- 16th September 1993A sample of matter has particles that are far apart and moving quickly in random directions. State which state of matter this describes.
- 17th September 1993In a tug of war, Team X pulls with a force of 640 N and Team Y pulls with a force of 590 N in the opposite direction. Calculate the resultant force acting on the rope.
- 18th September 1993Name the type of blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart under high pressure.
- 19th September 1993State whether gold is a very reactive or a very unreactive metal, given that it is found in the Earth as the pure metal rather than in a compound.
- 20th September 1993A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 21st September 1993Before starting a watering investigation, a pupil writes this prediction: a plant given more water each day will grow taller than one given less water. State one piece of scientific reasoning that could support this prediction.
- 22nd September 1993Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
- 23rd September 1993Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
- 24th September 1993A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
- 25th September 1993A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 26th September 1993A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
- 27th September 1993Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
- 28th September 1993A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
- 29th September 1993Calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 9 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 30th September 1993Work out -4 - 7.