Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1958 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1958
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1958A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 2nd April 1958Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 3rd April 1958Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 4th April 1958State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 5th April 1958Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 6th April 1958Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 7th April 1958Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 8th April 1958A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
- 9th April 1958A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
- 10th April 1958A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 11th April 1958Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 12th April 1958Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 13th April 1958Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 14th April 1958What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 15th April 1958A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 16th April 1958On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 17th April 1958A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 18th April 1958Find 3/8 of 64.
- 19th April 1958Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 20th April 1958Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 21st April 1958In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
- 22nd April 1958A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
- 23rd April 1958Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 24th April 1958Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 25th April 1958A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 26th April 1958A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 27th April 1958A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 28th April 1958Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 29th April 1958A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 30th April 1958Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.