Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1955Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 2nd July 1955A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 3rd July 1955A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 4th July 1955A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 5th July 1955A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 6th July 1955Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 7th July 1955After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 8th July 1955On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
- 9th July 1955A chord divides a circle so that the angle at the centre is 130 degrees. Work out the angle at the circumference subtended by the same chord, on the major arc.
- 10th July 1955Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 11th July 1955A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 240 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 7 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 12th July 1955Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 13th July 1955State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 14th July 1955Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 15th July 1955State whether sound is a transverse wave or a longitudinal wave.
- 16th July 1955Name the organ that produces bile, which helps to digest fats.
- 17th July 1955State whether melting ice is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 18th July 1955A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 19th July 1955State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 20th July 1955A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 21st July 1955A factual article about volcanic islands is broken into sections titled 'How islands form', 'Life on the slopes' and 'Living with the risk'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 22nd July 1955You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 23rd July 1955Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?
- 24th July 1955Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 25th July 1955Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 26th July 1955Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 27th July 1955A bag contains only red and yellow beads. The probability of picking a red bead is 0.65. If there are 140 beads in total, how many are yellow?
- 28th July 1955p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 29th July 1955Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 30th July 1955A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 31st July 1955A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.