Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1960Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 2nd June 1960Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 3rd June 1960State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 4th June 1960A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 5th June 1960State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 6th June 1960Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 7th June 1960Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 8th June 1960In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 9th June 1960Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 10th June 1960Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 11th June 1960Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 12th June 1960Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 13th June 1960Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 14th June 1960A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 15th June 1960A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 16th June 1960A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 17th June 1960Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 18th June 1960Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 19th June 1960Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 20th June 1960Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 21st June 1960Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 22nd June 1960A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 23rd June 1960Work out 9 x 7.
- 24th June 1960A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 25th June 1960A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 26th June 1960State whether sound is a transverse wave or a longitudinal wave.
- 27th June 1960Name the organ that produces bile, which helps to digest fats.
- 28th June 1960State whether melting ice is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 29th June 1960Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
- 30th June 1960A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.