Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1962 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1962
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1962State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.
- 2nd March 1962A pupil is choosing between two thermometers to measure a temperature change of about 5 degrees C: one has markings every 2 degrees C, and the other has markings every 0.2 degrees C. State which thermometer would give the more precise reading, and explain why.
- 3rd March 1962Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
- 4th March 1962Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
- 5th March 1962A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
- 6th March 1962A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 7th March 1962A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
- 8th March 1962Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
- 9th March 1962A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
- 10th March 1962A triangular prism has a cross-sectional area of 15 cm^2 and a length of 12 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 11th March 1962Work out -4 - 7.
- 12th March 1962Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
- 13th March 1962Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
- 14th March 1962A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
- 15th March 1962Calculate 56 + 29.
- 16th March 1962Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
- 17th March 1962A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
- 18th March 1962Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
- 19th March 1962Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 20th March 1962Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
- 21st March 1962State the law of reflection.
- 22nd March 1962A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
- 23rd March 1962Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 24th March 1962Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
- 25th March 1962In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 26th March 1962Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 27th March 1962Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 28th March 1962Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 29th March 1962Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 30th March 1962Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 31st March 1962Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)