Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1963 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1963State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
- 2nd February 1963State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
- 3rd February 1963Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
- 4th February 1963A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 5th February 1963Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the handle was rusted solid, the door creaked open at last."
- 6th February 1963Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: hurry up whispered Kofi we havent got much time
- 7th February 1963A question asks you to 'state one reason why the train was delayed, using evidence from the text.' What kind of answer is required?
- 8th February 1963A diver notices 'a single brass buckle winking in the torchlight.' Which word suggests the buckle is briefly catching and reflecting the light?
- 9th February 1963In the phrase "silent, secret snow", which technique is being used?
- 10th February 1963What is a counter-argument, and why might a writer include one?
- 11th February 1963In the phrase "silent, snow-hushed streets", which technique is being used?
- 12th February 1963Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 13th February 1963A pack of 24 pencils costs 3.60 pounds. Work out the cost of one pencil.
- 14th February 1963Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 15th February 1963A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 16th February 19633 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 17th February 1963Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 18th February 1963Work out 9 x 8.
- 19th February 1963A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 20th February 1963Work out 15% of 60.
- 21st February 1963State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 22nd February 1963State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 23rd February 1963State why an astronaut in open space, far from any planet or star, cannot hear an explosion happening nearby.
- 24th February 1963Name the green pigment found in chloroplasts that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 25th February 1963A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 26th February 1963Name the three states of matter.
- 27th February 1963A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 28th February 1963Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?