Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1954 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1954
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1954Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 2nd November 1954A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 3rd November 1954Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 4th November 1954A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
- 5th November 1954A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 6th November 1954Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 7th November 1954State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 8th November 1954In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 9th November 1954Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
- 10th November 1954State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
- 11th November 1954Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 12th November 1954Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 13th November 1954In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 14th November 1954Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 15th November 1954Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 16th November 1954Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 17th November 1954Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 18th November 1954Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 19th November 1954A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 20th November 1954Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
- 21st November 1954Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 22nd November 1954Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 23rd November 1954A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 24th November 1954An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 25th November 1954Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 26th November 1954Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 27th November 1954A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 28th November 1954Work out 9 x 7.
- 29th November 1954Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 30th November 1954State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.