Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1955Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
- 2nd November 1955120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 3rd November 1955Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 4th November 1955Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 5th November 1955A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 6th November 1955Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 7th November 1955A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 8th November 1955A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
- 9th November 1955A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.
- 10th November 1955In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 11th November 1955In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 12th November 1955A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 13th November 1955An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 14th November 1955Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 15th November 1955Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 16th November 1955Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 17th November 1955Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 18th November 1955Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 19th November 1955A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 20th November 1955Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 21st November 1955A fair coin is flipped and a fair six-sided dice is rolled at the same time. Work out the probability of getting heads on the coin and a number greater than 4 on the dice.
- 22nd November 1955Femi can complete a job alone in 2 hours, Grace can complete the same job alone in 3 hours, and Hassan can complete it alone in 6 hours. Working together at these constant rates, how long will it take them to complete the job?
- 23rd November 1955Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 24th November 1955Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 25th November 1955A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 26th November 1955State whether human eye colour is an example of inherited variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 27th November 1955State whether an exothermic reaction transfers energy to, or takes in energy from, the surroundings.
- 28th November 1955A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 29th November 1955A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 30th November 1955State the unit used to measure electric current.