Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1998 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1998A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
- 2nd June 1998Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 3rd June 1998Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 4th June 1998State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 5th June 1998A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 6th June 1998Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 7th June 1998Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 8th June 1998Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 9th June 1998A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 10th June 1998A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 11th June 1998Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Yesterday, Priya walks to school and meets her friend Tom.
- 12th June 1998In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 13th June 1998Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 14th June 1998Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 15th June 1998Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 16th June 1998A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 17th June 1998A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 18th June 1998A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 19th June 1998A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 20th June 1998A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 21st June 1998The first three terms of the triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6. If the pattern continues in the same way, what is the next term after 6?
- 22nd June 1998Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 23rd June 1998A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 24th June 1998The Sun is much larger than the Earth. State what type of object the Sun is, and name the force that keeps the Earth in orbit around it.
- 25th June 1998Name the type of rock formed when layers of sediment, such as sand or mud, are compressed together over a long period of time.
- 26th June 1998State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 27th June 1998A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 28th June 1998Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 29th June 1998Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 30th June 1998What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?