Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1963 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1963Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 2nd March 1963Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 3rd March 1963A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 4th March 1963A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 5th March 1963Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Please bring your pencil case ruler and calculator to the exam.
- 6th March 1963In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 7th March 1963Find 2/5 of 65.
- 8th March 1963Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 9th March 1963Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 10th March 1963A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 11th March 1963A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 12th March 1963A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 13th March 1963In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 14th March 1963A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 15th March 1963Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 16th March 1963Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 17th March 1963Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 18th March 1963Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 19th March 1963Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 20th March 1963Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 21st March 1963A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 22nd March 1963Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 23rd March 1963Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 24th March 1963What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 25th March 1963Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 26th March 1963Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 27th March 1963Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
- 28th March 1963A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 29th March 1963On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 30th March 1963A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 31st March 1963Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.