Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1956A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 2nd December 1956If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
- 3rd December 1956Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 4th December 1956If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 5th December 1956A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 6th December 1956Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
- 7th December 1956Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
- 8th December 1956A stall sells 4 sandwiches at 2.20 pounds each and 3 drinks at 1.10 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 9th December 1956Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
- 10th December 1956Work out 8 x 6.
- 11th December 1956Find 3/5 of 45.
- 12th December 1956Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
- 13th December 1956Find 3/4 of 88.
- 14th December 1956In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 15th December 1956State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 16th December 1956State whether the Earth's day (one full rotation on its axis) or the Earth's year (one full orbit of the Sun) takes longer.
- 17th December 1956A sound wave has a high frequency. State whether this means it has a high pitch or a low pitch.
- 18th December 1956State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 19th December 1956Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 20th December 1956A character says 'I'm fine' through gritted teeth, then slams the door. Explain what the contrast between the character's words and actions suggests.
- 21st December 1956Correct the spelling error caused by a missing doubled consonant: 'I am hopping to finish my homework before dinner' (meaning expecting, not jumping).
- 22nd December 1956Correct the tense error: 'Last week, she swims to the buoy and back without stopping.'
- 23rd December 1956A poem has irregular line lengths and no rhyme scheme, but a steady, insistent rhythm created by repeating the same three-syllable phrase. What technique creates this effect?
- 24th December 1956What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 25th December 1956A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 26th December 1956Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
- 27th December 1956A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 28th December 1956A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 29th December 1956A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 30th December 1956Work out 56 / 7.
- 31st December 1956In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.