Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1957 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1957
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1957In an investigation into reaction time, a pupil's results are 0.18 s, 0.19 s, 0.61 s, 0.18 s and 0.20 s. Identify the anomalous result, and suggest one likely reason it occurred.
- 2nd November 1957Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Dust rose from the floor, and Elias covered his mouth."
- 3rd November 1957Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The old house was SCARY.'
- 4th November 1957Which word from 'the tannoy crackled out another indistinct apology' suggests the announcement was hard to understand?
- 5th November 1957A diver 'counted her breaths, trying to make each one last longer than the last.' What does this suggest about her situation?
- 6th November 1957In a poem, the line "Waves gnaw at the cliff's grey chin" contains an example of which technique?
- 7th November 1957An article states 'Pupils who read for pleasure for just ten minutes a day report feeling calmer.' Name the technique used here.
- 8th November 1957A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
- 9th November 1957A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 10 cm, and a height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 10th November 1957Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
- 11th November 1957A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
- 12th November 1957A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
- 13th November 1957A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
- 14th November 1957Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 15th November 1957A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 16th November 1957Work out -3 - 6.
- 17th November 1957Work out -9 + 15.
- 18th November 1957Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 19th November 1957Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
- 20th November 1957A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
- 21st November 1957State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 22nd November 1957Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 23rd November 1957Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
- 24th November 1957A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 25th November 1957Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 26th November 1957Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 27th November 1957What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 28th November 1957Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 29th November 1957A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 30th November 1957In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?