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

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September 1995

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

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The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st September 1995Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
  2. 2nd September 1995Find 2/9 of 63.
  3. 3rd September 1995Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
  4. 4th September 1995A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
  5. 5th September 1995Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  6. 6th September 1995In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
  7. 7th September 1995A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
  8. 8th September 1995The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
  9. 9th September 1995Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  10. 10th September 1995Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  11. 11th September 1995Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
  12. 12th September 1995Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
  13. 13th September 1995Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  14. 14th September 1995Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
  15. 15th September 1995In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
  16. 16th September 1995Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
  17. 17th September 1995Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
  18. 18th September 1995Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
  19. 19th September 1995Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
  20. 20th September 1995Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
  21. 21st September 1995You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
  22. 22nd September 1995A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
  23. 23rd September 1995A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  24. 24th September 1995Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
  25. 25th September 1995Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  26. 26th September 1995A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
  27. 27th September 1995Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
  28. 28th September 1995Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
  29. 29th September 1995A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
  30. 30th September 1995Work out 9 x 7.