Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1955A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 2nd March 1955A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 3rd March 1955In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 4th March 1955State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 5th March 1955A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 6th March 1955A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 7th March 1955Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 8th March 1955A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 9th March 1955Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 10th March 1955Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 11th March 1955Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 12th March 1955Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
- 13th March 1955Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
- 14th March 1955A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 15th March 1955Find 35% of 180.
- 16th March 1955Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 17th March 1955Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 18th March 1955Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 19th March 1955A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 20th March 1955A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 21st March 1955A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 22nd March 1955Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 23rd March 1955State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 24th March 1955State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.
- 25th March 1955State what happens to the current in a series circuit if an extra identical bulb is added, assuming the battery voltage stays the same.
- 26th March 1955Name the organ system that carries electrical signals around the body to allow a fast reflex reaction, such as pulling a hand away from something hot.
- 27th March 1955Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 28th March 1955On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 29th March 1955A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 30th March 1955What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 31st March 1955A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?