Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1995 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1995
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1995A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
- 2nd November 1995Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
- 3rd November 1995Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
- 4th November 1995Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
- 5th November 1995What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 6th November 1995Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 7th November 1995A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 8th November 1995Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 9th November 1995Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 10th November 1995A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 11th November 1995Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 12th November 1995A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 13th November 1995A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 14th November 1995A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 15th November 1995Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 16th November 1995A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 17th November 1995State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 18th November 1995Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 19th November 1995Name one renewable energy resource.
- 20th November 1995A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 21st November 1995A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 22nd November 1995Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 23rd November 1995Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 24th November 1995A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 25th November 1995A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 26th November 1995If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
- 27th November 1995Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 28th November 1995If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 29th November 1995Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.
- 30th November 1995Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.