Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1959In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 2nd April 1959Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 3rd April 1959State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.
- 4th April 1959State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 5th April 1959State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 6th April 1959A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 7th April 1959A factual article about volcanic islands is broken into sections titled 'How islands form', 'Life on the slopes' and 'Living with the risk'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 8th April 1959You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 9th April 1959Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?
- 10th April 1959Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 11th April 1959Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 12th April 1959Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 13th April 1959A spinner has a probability of 0.3 of landing on red, a probability of 0.45 of landing on blue, and the remaining probability of landing on green. Find the probability of landing on green.
- 14th April 1959p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 15th April 1959Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 16th April 1959A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 17th April 1959A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 18th April 1959The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 19th April 1959Simplify 6a + 4b - 2a + 5b.
- 20th April 1959A car depreciates by 15% each year. It is worth 20,000 pounds now. Work out its value after 1 year.
- 21st April 1959Calculate the simple interest earned on 600 pounds saved for 3 years at an annual rate of 4%.
- 22nd April 1959A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 23rd April 1959Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 24th April 1959A wind turbine and a coal power station both generate electricity, but only one of them directly burns fuel to boil water into steam. State which one this is, and name the component that this steam turns.
- 25th April 1959A car accelerates from rest to 20 m/s in 4 s. Calculate its acceleration, using acceleration = change in velocity / time.
- 26th April 1959Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 27th April 1959A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 28th April 1959Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The two teams kits were both muddy after the match. (There is one kit set per team, and two teams in total.)
- 29th April 1959An apprentice is described as 'chewing the inside of his cheek and avoiding his master's eye.' What does this suggest about how he feels?
- 30th April 1959Which word means the same as "cluttered" in a sentence describing a messy attic: "crammed", "empty", "tidy" or "spacious"?