Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1995 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1995
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1995On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 2nd June 1995The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 3rd June 1995Find 3/8 of 64.
- 4th June 19953/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
- 5th June 1995Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).
- 6th June 1995In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
- 7th June 1995A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
- 8th June 1995Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 9th June 1995Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 10th June 1995Name the joint type found in the hip, and state one other place in the body where this same joint type is found.
- 11th June 1995Complete the word equation: hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide produces ___ + ___.
- 12th June 1995A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 13th June 1995Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 14th June 1995A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 15th June 1995State whether an acid has a pH value above or below 7.
- 16th June 1995A hazard symbol shows a skull and crossbones on an orange background. State what hazard this represents.
- 17th June 1995A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 18th June 1995A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 19th June 1995In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 20th June 1995Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 21st June 1995Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 22nd June 1995Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 23rd June 1995Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 24th June 1995Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 25th June 1995A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 26th June 1995The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.
- 27th June 1995Work out 84 / 12.
- 28th June 1995A class recorded how many books each of 25 students read in a month: 5 students read 0-2 books, 12 students read 3-5 books, and 8 students read 6-8 books. Using midpoints 1, 4 and 7, estimate the mean number of books read.
- 29th June 1995Prove that the sum of any three consecutive integers is always a multiple of 3.
- 30th June 1995p = 5, q = -2. Work out the value of 3p + q.