Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1962 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1962
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1962A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 2nd April 1962Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
- 3rd April 1962Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 4th April 1962Find 2/9 of 63.
- 5th April 1962Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 6th April 1962A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 7th April 1962Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 8th April 1962At a small maths club meeting, every one of the 8 members shakes hands with every other member exactly once. Work out the total number of handshakes.
- 9th April 1962A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 10th April 1962Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 11th April 1962A food sample turns from blue to brick-red when Benedict's solution is added and the mixture is heated. State which nutrient this positive result shows is present.
- 12th April 1962State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 13th April 1962Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
- 14th April 1962State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
- 15th April 1962A pupil measures the volume of a gas produced in a reaction every 30 seconds. State whether the volume of gas is the independent or the dependent variable.
- 16th April 1962Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 17th April 1962In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 18th April 1962Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 19th April 1962Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 20th April 1962Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 21st April 1962Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 22nd April 1962Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 23rd April 1962A magazine article about volcanoes is broken into sections titled 'How volcanoes form', 'Famous eruptions' and 'Living near a volcano'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 24th April 1962Write down the coordinates of the point 3 units to the left of the origin and 5 units up.
- 25th April 1962A survey asked 20 people how many pets they own: 5 people own 0 pets, 8 own 1 pet, 4 own 2 pets, and 3 own 3 pets. Work out the mean number of pets owned.
- 26th April 1962Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 27th April 1962A recipe for 8 people uses flour, sugar and butter in the ratio 4 : 3 : 1 by weight, totalling 800 g. Work out how many grams of sugar are needed to make the recipe for 12 people.
- 28th April 1962A circle has a radius of 10 cm. Work out the area of a sector with an angle of 72 degrees at the centre, giving your answer to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 29th April 1962Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 30th April 1962Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).