Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1995 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1995
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1995Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 2nd September 1995Find 2/9 of 63.
- 3rd September 1995Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 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.
- 5th September 1995Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 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?
- 7th September 1995A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 8th September 1995The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 9th September 1995Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 10th September 1995Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 11th September 1995Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 12th September 1995Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 13th September 1995Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 14th September 1995Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 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?
- 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.
- 17th September 1995Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 18th September 1995Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 19th September 1995Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 20th September 1995Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 21st September 1995You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 22nd September 1995A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 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.)
- 24th September 1995Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 25th September 1995Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 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.
- 27th September 1995Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 28th September 1995Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 29th September 1995A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 30th September 1995Work out 9 x 7.