Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1997 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1997Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 2nd December 1997A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 3rd December 1997Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 4th December 1997A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 5th December 1997Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 6th December 1997State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 7th December 1997A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 8th December 1997What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 9th December 1997A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 10th December 1997Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 11th December 1997Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 12th December 1997Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 13th December 1997Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 14th December 1997Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 15th December 1997In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 16th December 1997A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 17th December 1997Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 18th December 1997Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 19th December 1997Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 20th December 1997Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 21st December 1997Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 22nd December 1997A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 23rd December 1997A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 24th December 1997A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 25th December 1997A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 26th December 1997A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 27th December 1997Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 28th December 1997Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 29th December 1997In the sentence "The exhausted runner collapsed across the finish line," what word class is "exhausted"?
- 30th December 1997A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 31st December 1997In an extract, a character "kept glancing at the door and twisting the strap of her bag." What does this suggest about the character's feelings?