Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1961 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1961
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1961Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 2nd November 1961A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 3rd November 1961A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 4th November 1961Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 5th November 1961Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 6th November 1961State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 7th November 1961Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
- 8th November 1961Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.
- 9th November 1961A pupil uses a stopwatch to measure how long a candle takes to burn down by 1 cm, but forgets to shield the candle from a draught in the room. State whether this makes the result less reliable or less valid, and explain your answer.
- 10th November 1961Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 11th November 1961Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 12th November 1961In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 13th November 1961Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 14th November 1961A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 15th November 1961An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 16th November 1961A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 17th November 1961A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 18th November 1961Work out 12 x 7.
- 19th November 1961Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 20th November 1961Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 21st November 1961Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 22nd November 1961108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 23rd November 1961Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 24th November 1961Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 25th November 1961Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 26th November 1961A polar bear has thick white fur. State whether this is a structural or a behavioural adaptation, and explain why.
- 27th November 1961State whether reactivity increases or decreases going down Group 1, the alkali metals.
- 28th November 1961State whether the Earth's day (one full rotation on its axis) or the Earth's year (one full orbit of the Sun) takes longer.
- 29th November 1961A sound wave has a high frequency. State whether this means it has a high pitch or a low pitch.
- 30th November 1961A ball is dropped from a height and falls freely towards the ground. State the type of energy the ball gains as it speeds up.