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August 1995 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

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August 1995

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st August 1995Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
  2. 2nd August 1995Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
  3. 3rd August 1995A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
  4. 4th August 1995A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
  5. 5th August 1995A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
  6. 6th August 1995Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
  7. 7th August 1995A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
  8. 8th August 1995An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
  9. 9th August 1995Work out -4 - 7.
  10. 10th August 1995Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
  11. 11th August 1995Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
  12. 12th August 1995A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
  13. 13th August 1995Calculate 56 + 29.
  14. 14th August 1995Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
  15. 15th August 1995A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
  16. 16th August 1995Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
  17. 17th August 1995State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
  18. 18th August 1995State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
  19. 19th August 1995A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
  20. 20th August 1995State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
  21. 21st August 1995A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
  22. 22nd August 1995Name the three states of matter.
  23. 23rd August 1995In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
  24. 24th August 1995Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
  25. 25th August 1995Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
  26. 26th August 1995Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
  27. 27th August 1995Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
  28. 28th August 1995Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
  29. 29th August 1995Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
  30. 30th August 1995A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
  31. 31st August 1995Find 2/5 of 65.