Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1958 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1958
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1958A poem has irregular line lengths and no rhyme scheme, but a steady, insistent rhythm created by repeating the same three-syllable phrase. What technique creates this effect?
- 2nd November 1958What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 3rd November 1958A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 4th November 1958Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Yesterday, Priya walks to school and meets her friend Tom.
- 5th November 1958A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 6th November 1958Find 2/5 of 65.
- 7th November 1958A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 8th November 1958Work out 56 / 7.
- 9th November 1958In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 10th November 1958Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 11th November 1958Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 12th November 1958In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 13th November 1958Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 14th November 1958The first three terms of the triangular numbers are 1, 3, 6. If the pattern continues in the same way, what is the next term after 6?
- 15th November 1958Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 16th November 1958Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 17th November 1958The Sun is much larger than the Earth. State what type of object the Sun is, and name the force that keeps the Earth in orbit around it.
- 18th November 1958Name the type of rock formed when layers of sediment, such as sand or mud, are compressed together over a long period of time.
- 19th November 1958Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 20th November 1958A 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.
- 21st November 1958A 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?
- 22nd November 1958Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 23rd November 1958A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 24th November 1958Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 25th November 1958Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 26th November 1958Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 27th November 1958What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 28th November 1958Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
- 29th November 1958A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 30th November 1958Find 35% of 180.