Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1955State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 2nd June 1955A ball is dropped from a height and falls freely towards the ground. State the type of energy the ball gains as it speeds up.
- 3rd June 1955A pupil applies a force of 8 N to a spring and it extends by 4 cm. Use spring constant = force / extension to calculate the spring constant, in N/cm.
- 4th June 1955A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 5th June 1955Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 6th June 1955Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 7th June 1955Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 8th June 1955A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 9th June 1955A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 10th June 1955In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 11th June 1955Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 12th June 1955A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
- 13th June 1955Work out 9 x 8.
- 14th June 1955Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 15th June 1955y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 16th June 1955Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 17th June 1955Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 18th June 1955A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 19th June 1955State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 20th June 1955Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 21st June 1955Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 22nd June 1955Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 23rd June 1955A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 24th June 1955State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 25th June 1955State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 26th June 1955Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 27th June 1955In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 28th June 1955A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 29th June 1955Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 30th June 1955Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?