Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1993 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1993
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1993In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 2nd November 1993Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 3rd November 1993Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 4th November 1993Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 5th November 1993Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 6th November 1993In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 7th November 1993Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 8th November 1993Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 9th November 1993Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 10th November 1993Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 11th November 1993Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 12th November 1993A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 13th November 1993A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 14th November 1993Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 15th November 1993Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 16th November 1993A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 17th November 1993An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 18th November 1993Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 19th November 1993Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 20th November 1993A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 21st November 1993Work out 9 x 7.
- 22nd November 1993Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 23rd November 1993State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 24th November 1993In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 25th November 1993Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 26th November 1993State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.
- 27th November 1993State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 28th November 1993State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 29th November 1993Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 30th November 1993A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?