Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1963 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1963Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 2nd April 1963A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 3rd April 1963Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
- 4th April 1963Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
- 5th April 1963Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
- 6th April 1963120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 7th April 1963State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 8th April 1963Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 9th April 1963A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 10th April 1963Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 11th April 1963A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 12th April 1963Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 13th April 1963State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 14th April 1963In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 15th April 1963In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 16th April 1963A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 17th April 1963An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 18th April 1963Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 19th April 1963Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 20th April 1963Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 21st April 1963Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 22nd April 1963Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 23rd April 1963A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 24th April 1963Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 25th April 1963Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 26th April 1963Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 27th April 1963Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 28th April 1963Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 29th April 1963A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 30th April 1963A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.