Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1959Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 2nd August 1959Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 3rd August 1959Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 4th August 1959A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 5th August 1959Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 6th August 1959A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 7th August 1959Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 8th August 1959A scatter graph plots the number of hours 10 students spent revising against their test scores. The points show that more hours of revision is generally associated with a higher test score, though not perfectly. Describe the type of correlation shown, and state one thing this correlation does not prove.
- 9th August 1959Simplify (3x^2 y^3)^2 divided by 9x^3 y^4, giving your answer as simply as possible.
- 10th August 1959Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 11th August 1959Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 12th August 1959Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 13th August 1959Name the specialised cell in humans that is adapted with a long tail and many mitochondria to swim toward an egg cell.
- 14th August 1959State what happens to a catalyst during a chemical reaction.
- 15th August 1959State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 16th August 1959State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 17th August 1959A trolley of mass 2 kg is raised to a height of 5 m. Use GPE = mass x gravitational field strength x height (g = 10 N/kg) to calculate its gravitational potential energy.
- 18th August 1959Name the planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
- 19th August 1959This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 20th August 1959A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 21st August 1959A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 22nd August 1959Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 23rd August 1959Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 24th August 1959Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 25th August 1959A campaign letter opens with a short, true story about one family affected by flooding, before giving any statistics. What is this technique called, and why might a writer use it first?
- 26th August 1959Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 27th August 1959p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 4, p = 15. Work out the value of p when q = 10.
- 28th August 1959Find 3/8 of 64.
- 29th August 1959Write 0.000078 in standard form.
- 30th August 1959A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 31st August 1959Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.