Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1954 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1954
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1954A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 2nd June 1954Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 3rd June 1954Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 4th June 1954State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 5th June 1954Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
- 6th June 1954Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
- 7th June 1954A pupil uses a stopwatch to measure how long a candle takes to burn down by 1 cm, but forgets to shield the candle from a draught in the room. State whether this makes the result less reliable or less valid, and explain your answer.
- 8th June 1954Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 9th June 1954Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 10th June 1954In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 11th June 1954Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 12th June 1954A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 13th June 1954An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 14th June 1954A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 15th June 1954A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 16th June 1954Work out 12 x 7.
- 17th June 1954Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 18th June 1954Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 19th June 1954Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 20th June 1954108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 21st June 1954Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 22nd June 1954Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 23rd June 1954Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 24th June 1954State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 25th June 1954State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 26th June 1954State whether the Earth's day (one full rotation on its axis) or the Earth's year (one full orbit of the Sun) takes longer.
- 27th June 1954A sound wave has a high frequency. State whether this means it has a high pitch or a low pitch.
- 28th June 1954A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 29th June 1954Name the three states of matter.
- 30th June 1954Which word means the same as 'ancient' in a sentence describing an old, crumbling castle: 'timeworn', 'modern', 'spacious' or 'lively'?