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March 1994 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

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March 1994

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st March 1994A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
  2. 2nd March 1994Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
  3. 3rd March 1994Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
  4. 4th March 1994Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
  5. 5th March 1994In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
  6. 6th March 1994A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
  7. 7th March 1994A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
  8. 8th March 1994Find 35% of 180.
  9. 9th March 1994Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
  10. 10th March 1994Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
  11. 11th March 1994Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
  12. 12th March 1994A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
  13. 13th March 1994A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  14. 14th March 1994A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
  15. 15th March 1994Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
  16. 16th March 1994State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
  17. 17th March 1994A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
  18. 18th March 1994State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
  19. 19th March 1994State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
  20. 20th March 1994Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
  21. 21st March 1994On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
  22. 22nd March 1994A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
  23. 23rd March 1994What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
  24. 24th March 1994A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
  25. 25th March 1994Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
  26. 26th March 1994Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
  27. 27th March 1994Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
  28. 28th March 1994Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
  29. 29th March 1994A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
  30. 30th March 1994In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
  31. 31st March 1994A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)