Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1954 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1954
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1954In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 2nd January 1954In 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?
- 3rd January 1954A 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?
- 4th January 1954An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 5th January 1954Punctuate 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
- 6th January 1954Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 7th January 1954Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 8th January 1954Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 9th January 1954Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 10th January 1954A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 11th January 1954Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 12th January 1954A drawer contains 4 black socks and 6 white socks only. Two socks are taken out at random, one after another, without replacement. Work out the probability that both socks are white.
- 13th January 1954A two-digit number is 7 times the sum of its digits. The digit in the tens place is one more than the digit in the units place. Find the two-digit number.
- 14th January 1954Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 15th January 1954Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 16th January 1954A 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.
- 17th January 1954State one way a red blood cell is adapted to carry oxygen efficiently.
- 18th January 1954A reaction between magnesium ribbon and hydrochloric acid gives off heat, and the temperature of the acid rises from 20 degrees C to 35 degrees C. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic, and explain how you know.
- 19th January 1954State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 20th January 1954A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 21st January 1954State whether respiration in muscle cells during hard exercise, when oxygen supply cannot keep up with demand, is aerobic or anaerobic.
- 22nd January 1954Name the layer of gases surrounding the Earth that contains the oxygen needed for respiration.
- 23rd January 1954Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 24th January 1954A 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?
- 25th January 1954A 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?
- 26th January 1954Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 27th January 1954Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 28th January 1954Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 29th January 1954A charity advert says: 'You could change a child's life today.' Which word directly addresses the reader, and what effect does this have?
- 30th January 1954Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 31st January 1954In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 40 degrees and the side opposite A is 8 cm. Use trigonometry to find the length of the hypotenuse, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.