Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1996 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1996A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 2nd August 1996Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
- 3rd August 1996In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 4th August 1996A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
- 5th August 1996Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 6th August 1996Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 7th August 1996A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 8th August 1996A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 9th August 1996A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 10th August 1996A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 11th August 1996A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 12th August 1996Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
- 13th August 1996Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 14th August 1996Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 15th August 1996A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
- 16th August 1996State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
- 17th August 1996State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 18th August 1996A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 19th August 1996Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 20th August 1996Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 21st August 1996What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 22nd August 1996Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 23rd August 1996Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 24th August 1996Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 25th August 1996In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 26th August 1996A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 27th August 1996A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 28th August 1996Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 29th August 1996After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 30th August 1996On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
- 31st August 1996Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.