Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1996 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1996An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 2nd April 1996Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 3rd April 1996Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 4th April 1996State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 5th April 1996A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 6th April 1996Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 7th April 1996Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 8th April 1996Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 9th April 1996A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 10th April 1996A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 11th April 1996Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 12th April 1996Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 13th April 1996Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 14th April 1996Work out 9 x 8.
- 15th April 1996Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 16th April 1996y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 17th April 1996Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 18th April 1996Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 19th April 1996A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 20th April 1996State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 21st April 1996A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 22nd April 1996Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 23rd April 1996A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 24th April 1996Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 25th April 1996Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 26th April 1996State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 27th April 1996Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 28th April 1996In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 29th April 1996A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 30th April 1996Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.