Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 1958 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1958
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1958A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 2nd October 1958State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 3rd October 1958Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 4th October 1958Name one renewable energy resource.
- 5th October 1958Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
- 6th October 1958A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 7th October 1958Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 8th October 1958Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 9th October 1958A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 10th October 1958A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 11th October 1958If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
- 12th October 1958Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 13th October 1958If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 14th October 1958Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.
- 15th October 1958Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
- 16th October 1958Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
- 17th October 1958A 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.
- 18th October 1958Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
- 19th October 1958Work out 8 x 6.
- 20th October 1958Find 3/5 of 45.
- 21st October 1958Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
- 22nd October 1958Find 3/4 of 88.
- 23rd October 1958State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 24th October 1958State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 25th October 1958A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
- 26th October 1958Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 27th October 1958A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 28th October 1958Name the three states of matter.
- 29th October 1958A character says 'I'm fine' through gritted teeth, then slams the door. Explain what the contrast between the character's words and actions suggests.
- 30th October 1958Correct the spelling error caused by a missing doubled consonant: 'I am hopping to finish my homework before dinner' (meaning expecting, not jumping).
- 31st October 1958Correct the tense error: 'Last week, she swims to the buoy and back without stopping.'