Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1996 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1996A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
- 2nd November 1996A triangular prism has a cross-sectional area of 15 cm^2 and a length of 12 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 3rd November 1996Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
- 4th November 1996A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
- 5th November 1996A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
- 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.
- 7th November 1996Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 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.
- 9th November 1996Work out -3 - 6.
- 10th November 1996Work out -9 + 15.
- 11th November 1996Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 12th November 1996Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
- 13th November 1996State the law of reflection.
- 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).
- 15th November 1996Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 16th November 1996Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
- 17th November 1996A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 18th November 1996Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 19th November 1996Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 20th November 1996What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 21st November 1996Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 22nd November 1996A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 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.)
- 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?
- 25th November 1996Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
- 26th November 1996Work out 40% of 65.
- 27th November 1996A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 28th November 1996p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 29th November 1996Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 30th November 1996Work out 5/6 of 90.