Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1995 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1995
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1995Work out -3 - 6.
- 2nd January 1995Work out -9 + 15.
- 3rd January 1995Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 4th January 1995State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 5th January 1995A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
- 6th January 1995State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 7th January 1995Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 8th January 1995A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 9th January 1995A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 10th January 1995Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 11th January 1995Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 12th January 1995What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 13th January 1995Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 14th January 1995A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 15th January 1995In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 16th January 1995A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 17th January 1995The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 18th January 1995Work out 40% of 65.
- 19th January 1995A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 20th January 1995p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 21st January 1995Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 22nd January 1995Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 23rd January 1995A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 24th January 1995A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 25th January 1995Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 26th January 1995Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 27th January 1995State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 28th January 1995A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 29th January 1995State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 30th January 1995Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 31st January 1995A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.