Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1956A wind turbine and a coal power station both generate electricity, but only one of them directly burns fuel to boil water into steam. State which one this is, and name the component that this steam turns.
- 2nd November 1956A car accelerates from rest to 20 m/s in 4 s. Calculate its acceleration, using acceleration = change in velocity / time.
- 3rd November 1956Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 4th November 1956Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 5th November 1956Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The two teams kits were both muddy after the match. (There is one kit set per team, and two teams in total.)
- 6th November 1956In the sentence 'The old clock in the hallway ticked with the patience of a watchman,' which word gives the clock a human quality?
- 7th November 1956A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
- 8th November 1956Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
- 9th November 1956Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
- 10th November 1956Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
- 11th November 1956A speech opens with the line: 'Imagine losing your home in a single night.' What technique is this, and why is it an effective opening?
- 12th November 1956Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 13th November 1956A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 14th November 1956Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 15th November 1956Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 16th November 1956A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 17th November 1956Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 18th November 1956A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 19th November 1956A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 20th November 1956A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 21st November 1956Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 22nd November 1956A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 23rd November 1956State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 24th November 1956State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 25th November 1956Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
- 26th November 1956A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 27th November 1956A pupil uses a stopwatch to measure how long a candle takes to burn down by 1 cm, but forgets to shield the candle from a draught in the room. State whether this makes the result less reliable or less valid, and explain your answer.
- 28th November 1956Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 29th November 1956Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 30th November 1956A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?