Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1959Solve 5x - 4 = 21.
- 2nd December 1959A train travels 245 km in 3.5 hours. Work out its average speed.
- 3rd December 1959Fatima earns 1800 pounds a month and saves 12% of her earnings. Calculate how much she saves each month.
- 4th December 1959On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.
- 5th December 1959In the disappearing cross experiment, a student times how long it takes for a cross under the flask to disappear from view. Explain why a shorter time indicates a faster reaction.
- 6th December 1959Name one non-renewable energy resource used to generate electricity, other than coal.
- 7th December 1959Name the five main kingdoms into which living things can be classified.
- 8th December 1959A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 9th December 1959State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
- 10th December 1959Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Last week, the team trains hard and wins every match.
- 11th December 1959A four-mark question asks you to explain the effect of the writer's language in one paragraph. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 12th December 1959A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "silent." Which of these fits: "hushed", "loud", "busy" or "bright"?
- 13th December 1959Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
- 14th December 1959Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go near the big wheel warned tom its not safe
- 15th December 1959A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 16th December 1959A leaflet states: 'Experts agree that recycling just one more item a week could transform our town's waste problem.' Name one persuasive technique used here.
- 17th December 1959List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 18th December 1959The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Work out the size of the largest angle.
- 19th December 1959Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 20th December 1959A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 21st December 1959A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 22nd December 1959Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 23rd December 1959Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 24th December 1959Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 25th December 1959A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 26th December 1959A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 27th December 1959Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 28th December 1959Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 29th December 1959A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
- 30th December 1959Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
- 31st December 1959State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.