Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1960Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 2nd August 1960Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 3rd August 1960A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 4th August 1960Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 5th August 1960A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 6th August 1960A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 7th August 1960A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 8th August 1960Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 9th August 1960A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 10th August 1960State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 11th August 1960State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
- 12th August 1960State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
- 13th August 1960Name the part of a plant cell, not found in an animal cell, that carries out photosynthesis.
- 14th August 1960A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 15th August 1960Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 16th August 1960Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 17th August 1960A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 18th August 1960A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 19th August 1960If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
- 20th August 1960Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 21st August 1960If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 22nd August 1960Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 23rd August 1960Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
- 24th August 1960Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
- 25th August 1960A stall sells 4 sandwiches at 2.20 pounds each and 3 drinks at 1.10 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 26th August 1960Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
- 27th August 1960Work out 8 x 6.
- 28th August 1960Find 3/5 of 45.
- 29th August 1960Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
- 30th August 1960Find 3/4 of 88.
- 31st August 1960State one way the xylem is adapted for transporting water up a plant.