Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1998 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1998A scatter graph plots the number of hours 10 students spent revising against their test scores. The points show that more hours of revision is generally associated with a higher test score, though not perfectly. Describe the type of correlation shown, and state one thing this correlation does not prove.
- 2nd August 1998Simplify (3x^2 y^3)^2 divided by 9x^3 y^4, giving your answer as simply as possible.
- 3rd August 1998Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 4th August 1998Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 5th August 1998A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
- 6th August 1998Name the specialised cell in humans that is adapted with a long tail and many mitochondria to swim toward an egg cell.
- 7th August 1998State what happens to a catalyst during a chemical reaction.
- 8th August 1998State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 9th August 1998A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 10th August 1998A trolley of mass 2 kg is raised to a height of 5 m. Use GPE = mass x gravitational field strength x height (g = 10 N/kg) to calculate its gravitational potential energy.
- 11th August 1998Name the planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
- 12th August 1998Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 13th August 1998A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 14th August 1998A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 15th August 1998Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 16th August 1998Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 17th August 1998Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 18th August 1998A charity advert says: 'You could change a child's life today.' Which word directly addresses the reader, and what effect does this have?
- 19th August 1998Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 20th August 1998p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 4, p = 15. Work out the value of p when q = 10.
- 21st August 1998Find 3/8 of 64.
- 22nd August 1998Write 0.000078 in standard form.
- 23rd August 1998A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 24th August 1998Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.
- 25th August 1998Increase 240 pounds by 12%.
- 26th August 1998Work out 312 divided by 8, using a written method.
- 27th August 1998The list shows the number of pets owned by 9 pupils: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 0, 1. Write down the mode.
- 28th August 1998During vigorous exercise, a sprinter's muscles cannot get enough oxygen. Name the substance that builds up in the muscles as a result, and state one effect this has.
- 29th August 1998The density of olive oil is 0.92 g/cm^3. State, with a reason, whether olive oil would float or sink in water (density 1.0 g/cm^3).
- 30th August 1998A parcel of mass 2.5 kg is lifted onto a shelf 2 m above the ground. Take g = 10 N/kg and use GPE = mass x g x height. Calculate the gain in gravitational potential energy.
- 31st August 1998Name the type of blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart under high pressure.