Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1998 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1998You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 2nd April 1998Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?
- 3rd April 1998Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 4th April 1998Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 5th April 1998Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 6th April 1998Find the mean of these test scores: 14, 18, 12, 20, 16.
- 7th April 1998p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 8th April 1998Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 9th April 1998A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 10th April 1998A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 11th April 1998The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 12th April 1998Simplify 6a + 4b - 2a + 5b.
- 13th April 1998A car depreciates by 15% each year. It is worth 20,000 pounds now. Work out its value after 1 year.
- 14th April 1998Find 35% of 160 pounds.
- 15th April 1998A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 16th April 1998Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 17th April 1998A runner covers 400 m in 50 seconds at a constant speed. Use speed = distance / time to calculate her speed.
- 18th April 1998Some endothermic reactions cause the temperature of their surroundings to fall. Explain, in terms of energy, why this happens.
- 19th April 1998Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 20th April 1998A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 21st April 1998Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
- 22nd April 1998An apprentice is described as 'chewing the inside of his cheek and avoiding his master's eye.' What does this suggest about how he feels?
- 23rd April 1998Which word means the same as "cluttered" in a sentence describing a messy attic: "crammed", "empty", "tidy" or "spacious"?
- 24th April 1998Rewrite this line of dialogue to remove the overused adverb, showing the emotion instead: 'I'm not scared,' she said bravely.
- 25th April 1998Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The lights flickered, and the music started on its own.
- 26th April 1998Name the technique used in this line: New voices. New ideas. New confidence.
- 27th April 1998What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 28th April 1998Calculate the value of 7 + 2 x (6 - 3) x 2, showing your method.
- 29th April 1998Write 0.00042 in standard form.
- 30th April 1998A prize fund of 150 pounds is shared between two clubs in the ratio 2:3. Work out the larger share.