Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1956Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 2nd September 1956Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 3rd September 1956Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 4th September 1956Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 5th September 1956A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 6th September 1956Find 2/5 of 65.
- 7th September 1956Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 8th September 1956Find 2/9 of 63.
- 9th September 1956Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 10th September 1956A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 11th September 1956Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 12th September 1956In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 13th September 1956A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 14th September 1956A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 15th September 1956Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 16th September 1956Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 17th September 1956Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 18th September 1956Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 19th September 1956Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 20th September 1956Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 21st September 1956In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 22nd September 1956Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 23rd September 1956Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 24th September 1956Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 25th September 1956Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 26th September 1956Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 27th September 1956A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 28th September 1956A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 29th September 1956A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 30th September 1956Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.