Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1954 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1954
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1954Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: Regular ___ at the piano will improve your technique. (practice / practise)
- 2nd July 1954Identify and correct the pronoun error: 'The dog wagged their tail happily.'
- 3rd July 1954A poem compares old age to 'a candle guttering low, still giving light.' Name this technique.
- 4th July 1954Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The fire hissed and spat its sparks'?
- 5th July 1954Find and copy one word from 'the mist swallowed the path ahead of him' that gives the mist a human or animal-like quality.
- 6th July 1954Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
- 7th July 1954A diver signals "all clear" with a steady hand, but his eyes keep darting towards the wreck's dark entrance. Explain what the contrast between his signal and his eyes suggests.
- 8th July 1954Find 2/5 of 65.
- 9th July 1954Find 1/3 of 96.
- 10th July 1954Work out -12 + 4 x 3.
- 11th July 1954Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
- 12th July 1954Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
- 13th July 1954Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 14th July 1954In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 15th July 1954A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 16th July 1954Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
- 17th July 1954Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 18th July 1954Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 19th July 1954A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
- 20th July 1954State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
- 21st July 1954Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 22nd July 1954A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
- 23rd July 1954A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
- 24th July 1954A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 25th July 1954Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 26th July 1954Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 27th July 1954Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 28th July 1954What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 29th July 1954In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 30th July 1954A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 31st July 1954A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)