Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1997 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1997Work out 56 / 7.
- 2nd November 1997In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 3rd November 1997Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 4th November 1997Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 5th November 1997In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 6th November 1997Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 7th November 1997Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 8th November 1997Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 9th November 1997Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 10th November 1997Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 11th November 1997Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 12th November 1997Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 13th November 1997A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 14th November 1997A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 15th November 1997Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 16th November 1997A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 17th November 1997Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 18th November 1997Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 19th November 1997Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 20th November 1997A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 21st November 1997On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 22nd November 1997A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 23rd November 1997Find 35% of 180.
- 24th November 1997Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 25th November 1997A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 26th November 1997Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 27th November 1997A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 28th November 1997A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 29th November 1997A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 30th November 1997State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.