Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1961 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1961
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1961A chord divides a circle so that the angle at the centre is 130 degrees. Work out the angle at the circumference subtended by the same chord, on the major arc.
- 2nd February 1961Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 3rd February 1961A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 240 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 7 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 4th February 1961Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 5th February 1961State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 6th February 1961Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 7th February 1961Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.
- 8th February 1961Name the process by which digested food molecules pass from the small intestine into the blood.
- 9th February 1961An old-style filament light bulb transfers 100 J of electrical energy. Of this, 20 J is transferred usefully as light, and the rest is wasted as heat. Calculate the energy wasted as heat.
- 10th February 1961Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 11th February 1961State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 12th February 1961A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 13th February 1961A factual article about volcanic islands is broken into sections titled 'How islands form', 'Life on the slopes' and 'Living with the risk'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 14th February 1961You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 15th February 1961Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?
- 16th February 1961Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 17th February 1961Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 18th February 1961Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 19th February 1961Find the mean of these test scores: 14, 18, 12, 20, 16.
- 20th February 1961p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 21st February 1961Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 22nd February 1961A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 23rd February 1961Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 24th February 1961Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 25th February 1961Simplify 6a + 4b - 2a + 5b.
- 26th February 1961A car depreciates by 15% each year. It is worth 20,000 pounds now. Work out its value after 1 year.
- 27th February 1961Find 35% of 160 pounds.
- 28th February 1961A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.