Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1957 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1957
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1957Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 2nd January 1957Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 3rd January 1957A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
- 4th January 1957Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 5th January 1957Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
- 6th January 1957State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 7th January 1957In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 8th January 1957A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
- 9th January 1957State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
- 10th January 1957Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 11th January 1957A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 12th January 1957A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 13th January 1957Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 14th January 1957A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 15th January 1957Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 16th January 1957Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 17th January 1957Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 18th January 1957In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 19th January 1957A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 20th January 1957Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 21st January 1957Find 35% of 180.
- 22nd January 1957A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 23rd January 1957An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 24th January 1957Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 25th January 1957A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 26th January 1957A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 27th January 1957A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 28th January 1957Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 29th January 1957State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 30th January 1957A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 31st January 1957State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.