Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1959A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 2nd February 1959Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 3rd February 1959In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 4th February 1959Calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 9 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 5th February 1959Find 30% of 150.
- 6th February 1959Work out 13^2.
- 7th February 1959Find 5/6 of 72.
- 8th February 1959A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 9th February 1959A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 10th February 1959Calculate 74 - 38.
- 11th February 1959Work out -7 + 15.
- 12th February 1959A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 13th February 1959In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 14th February 1959State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 15th February 1959An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 16th February 1959Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 17th February 1959State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 18th February 1959Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 19th February 1959A 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?
- 20th February 1959Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 21st February 1959Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 22nd February 1959Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 23rd February 1959A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 24th February 1959A 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?
- 25th February 1959Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 26th February 1959Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 27th February 1959A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 28th February 1959Work out 9 x 8.