Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1998 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1998Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 2nd July 1998Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 3rd July 1998Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 4th July 1998What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 5th July 1998Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
- 6th July 1998A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 7th July 1998Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 8th July 1998Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 9th July 1998Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 10th July 1998Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
- 11th July 1998Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
- 12th July 1998Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
- 13th July 1998120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 14th July 1998Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 15th July 1998State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 16th July 1998A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
- 17th July 1998Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 18th July 1998State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 19th July 1998Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 20th July 1998On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 21st July 1998In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 22nd July 1998In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 23rd July 1998A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 24th July 1998An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 25th July 1998Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 26th July 1998Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 27th July 1998Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 28th July 1998Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 29th July 1998Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 30th July 1998A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 31st July 1998Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).