Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1995 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1995
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1995Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 2nd April 1995A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 3rd April 1995A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 4th April 1995Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 5th April 1995Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 6th April 1995State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
- 7th April 1995State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
- 8th April 1995Name the part of a plant cell, not found in an animal cell, that carries out photosynthesis.
- 9th April 1995A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 10th April 1995Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 11th April 1995Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 12th April 1995In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 13th April 1995Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 14th April 1995A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 15th April 1995An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 16th April 1995A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 17th April 1995Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 18th April 1995Work out 12 x 7.
- 19th April 1995Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 20th April 1995Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 21st April 1995Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 22nd April 1995108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 23rd April 1995Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 24th April 1995Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 25th April 1995Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 26th April 1995State one way the xylem is adapted for transporting water up a plant.
- 27th April 1995In a chromatography experiment, the solvent front travels 10 cm and a dye spot travels 4 cm. Calculate the Rf value of the dye.
- 28th April 1995State why an astronaut in open space, far from any planet or star, cannot hear an explosion happening nearby.
- 29th April 1995Name the green pigment found in chloroplasts that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 30th April 1995State the name given to a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to the surroundings.