Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1957 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1957
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1957A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 2nd April 1957A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 3rd April 1957Calculate 74 - 38.
- 4th April 1957Work out -7 + 15.
- 5th April 1957A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 6th April 1957Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 7th April 1957Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 8th April 1957State the law of reflection.
- 9th April 1957A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
- 10th April 1957Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 11th April 1957State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 12th April 1957A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 13th April 1957Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 14th April 1957Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 15th April 1957Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 16th April 1957A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 17th April 1957A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 18th April 1957Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
- 19th April 1957Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 20th April 1957Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 21st April 1957Work out 9 x 8.
- 22nd April 1957Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 23rd April 1957y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 24th April 1957Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 25th April 1957Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 26th April 1957A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 27th April 1957State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 28th April 1957Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 29th April 1957Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 30th April 1957A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.