Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1956A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 2nd June 1956Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 3rd June 1956Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 4th June 1956Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 5th June 1956What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 6th June 1956What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 7th June 1956Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
- 8th June 1956The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 9th June 1956Find 3/8 of 64.
- 10th June 19563/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
- 11th June 1956Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).
- 12th June 1956In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
- 13th June 1956A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
- 14th June 1956Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 15th June 1956Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 16th June 1956Name the joint type found in the hip, and state one other place in the body where this same joint type is found.
- 17th June 1956Complete the word equation: hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide produces ___ + ___.
- 18th June 1956A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
- 19th June 1956Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 20th June 1956State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 21st June 1956State whether an acid has a pH value above or below 7.
- 22nd June 1956A hazard symbol shows a skull and crossbones on an orange background. State what hazard this represents.
- 23rd June 1956A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 24th June 1956A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 25th June 1956In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 26th June 1956Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 27th June 1956Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 28th June 1956Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 29th June 1956Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 30th June 1956Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.