Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1959A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 2nd November 1959Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
- 3rd November 1959A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 4th November 1959Write 3/5 as a decimal.
- 5th November 1959After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 6th November 1959On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
- 7th November 1959Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).
- 8th November 1959Simplify sqrt(75) - sqrt(12), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(3).
- 9th November 1959Work out 9.6 divided by 0.4.
- 10th November 1959Calculate 47 + 36.
- 11th November 1959State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 12th November 1959Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 13th November 1959State whether the north pole of one bar magnet placed near the north pole of a second bar magnet will attract or repel.
- 14th November 1959A solution has pH 10. State whether it is acidic, neutral or alkaline.
- 15th November 1959A diver swims from the surface down to a depth of 10 m in a swimming pool. State how the water pressure on her body changes as she swims deeper, and give a reason.
- 16th November 1959A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 17th November 1959State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 18th November 1959A guide tells the group "we're nearly there" in a steady voice, but keeps glancing anxiously at the darkening sky. Explain what the contrast between his words and his glances suggests.
- 19th November 1959You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 20th November 1959Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
- 21st November 1959What is emotive language, and why might a writer use it in a leaflet about ocean pollution?
- 22nd November 1959Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The storm was BIG.'
- 23rd November 1959Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The doors opened, and passengers spilled onto the platform."
- 24th November 1959Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The market was NOISY."
- 25th November 1959A survey of 40 students' favourite sport is shown in a pie chart. If football takes up a sector of 90 degrees, what percentage of students chose football?
- 26th November 1959y is directly proportional to x. When x = 6, y = 15. Work out y when x = 10.
- 27th November 1959A bag contains 8 red, 9 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is red, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 28th November 1959Find 3/5 of 120.
- 29th November 1959A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
- 30th November 1959A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.