Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1955State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.
- 2nd September 1955A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 3rd September 1955Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the handle was rusted solid, the door creaked open at last."
- 4th September 1955Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: hurry up whispered Kofi we havent got much time
- 5th September 1955A question asks you to 'state one reason why the train was delayed, using evidence from the text.' What kind of answer is required?
- 6th September 1955A diver notices 'a single brass buckle winking in the torchlight.' Which word suggests the buckle is briefly catching and reflecting the light?
- 7th September 1955In the phrase "silent, secret snow", which technique is being used?
- 8th September 1955What is a counter-argument, and why might a writer include one?
- 9th September 1955In the phrase "silent, snow-hushed streets", which technique is being used?
- 10th September 1955Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 11th September 1955A pack of 24 pencils costs 3.60 pounds. Work out the cost of one pencil.
- 12th September 1955Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 13th September 1955A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 14th September 19553 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 15th September 1955Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 16th September 1955Work out 9 x 8.
- 17th September 1955A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 18th September 1955Work out 15% of 60.
- 19th September 1955Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 20th September 1955Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
- 21st September 1955State why an astronaut in open space, far from any planet or star, cannot hear an explosion happening nearby.
- 22nd September 1955Name the green pigment found in chloroplasts that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 23rd September 1955Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 24th September 1955Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
- 25th September 1955A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 26th September 1955Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 27th September 1955Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 28th September 1955Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 29th September 1955A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 30th September 1955A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?