Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1961 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1961
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1961Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 2nd August 1961A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 3rd August 1961Work out -3 - 6.
- 4th August 1961Work out -9 + 15.
- 5th August 1961Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 6th August 1961Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 7th August 1961An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 8th August 1961Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 9th August 1961Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 10th August 1961State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 11th August 1961A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 12th August 1961Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 13th August 1961Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 14th August 1961What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 15th August 1961Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 16th August 1961A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 17th August 1961Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 18th August 1961A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 19th August 1961Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 20th August 1961Work out 40% of 65.
- 21st August 1961A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 22nd August 1961p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 23rd August 1961Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 24th August 1961Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 25th August 1961A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 26th August 1961A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 27th August 1961A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 28th August 1961Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 29th August 1961A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 30th August 1961Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 31st August 1961Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.