Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1961 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1961
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1961Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 2nd June 1961State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 3rd June 1961State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 4th June 1961State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 5th June 1961In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 6th June 1961In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 7th June 1961A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 8th June 1961An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 9th June 1961Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 10th June 1961Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 11th June 1961Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 12th June 1961Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 13th June 1961Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 14th June 1961A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 15th June 1961Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 16th June 1961A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 17th June 1961The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 18th June 1961Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 19th June 1961Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 20th June 1961A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
- 21st June 1961A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 22nd June 1961Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 23rd June 1961State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 24th June 1961A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 25th June 1961Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 26th June 1961A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 27th June 1961Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 28th June 1961A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 29th June 1961A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 30th June 1961Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?