Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1960A trolley of mass 20 kg is pushed with a resultant force of 60 N. Use force = mass x acceleration to calculate its acceleration.
- 2nd December 1960A cyclist travels 300 m in 25 s. Calculate her average speed.
- 3rd December 1960Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
- 4th December 1960Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
- 5th December 1960A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
- 6th December 1960Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the map in the drawer."
- 7th December 1960Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
- 8th December 1960A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 9th December 1960Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
- 10th December 1960A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 11th December 1960Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 12th December 1960In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 13th December 1960An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
- 14th December 1960Find 30% of 150.
- 15th December 1960Work out 13^2.
- 16th December 1960Find 5/6 of 72.
- 17th December 1960A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 18th December 1960A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 19th December 1960Calculate 74 - 38.
- 20th December 1960Work out -7 + 15.
- 21st December 1960A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 22nd December 1960State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 23rd December 1960State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 24th December 1960A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 25th December 1960State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 26th December 1960A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 27th December 1960Name the three states of matter.
- 28th December 1960A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 29th December 1960Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 30th December 1960Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 31st December 1960Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'