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November 1996 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day

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November 1996

30 sheets · 150 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st November 1996A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
  2. 2nd November 1996A triangular prism has a cross-sectional area of 15 cm^2 and a length of 12 cm. Calculate its volume.
  3. 3rd November 1996Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
  4. 4th November 1996A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
  5. 5th November 1996A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
  6. 6th November 1996A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
  7. 7th November 1996Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
  8. 8th November 1996A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
  9. 9th November 1996Work out -3 - 6.
  10. 10th November 1996Work out -9 + 15.
  11. 11th November 1996Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
  12. 12th November 1996Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
  13. 13th November 1996State the law of reflection.
  14. 14th November 1996A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
  15. 15th November 1996Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
  16. 16th November 1996Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
  17. 17th November 1996A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
  18. 18th November 1996Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
  19. 19th November 1996Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
  20. 20th November 1996What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
  21. 21st November 1996Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
  22. 22nd November 1996A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
  23. 23rd November 1996Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
  24. 24th November 1996A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  25. 25th November 1996Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
  26. 26th November 1996Work out 40% of 65.
  27. 27th November 1996A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
  28. 28th November 1996p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
  29. 29th November 1996Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  30. 30th November 1996Work out 5/6 of 90.