Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 1963 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1963A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 2nd May 1963A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 3rd May 1963A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 4th May 1963Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 5th May 1963Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 6th May 1963In the sentence "The exhausted runner collapsed across the finish line," what word class is "exhausted"?
- 7th May 1963A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 8th May 1963A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 9th May 1963Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 10th May 1963Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 11th May 1963Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 12th May 1963Is the claim 'this is the most dangerous road crossing in the whole town' a fact or an opinion? Explain your answer.
- 13th May 1963Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 14th May 1963A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 15th May 1963Find 3/8 of 64.
- 16th May 1963Write 0.000078 in standard form.
- 17th May 1963A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 18th May 1963Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.
- 19th May 1963Increase 240 pounds by 12%.
- 20th May 1963Work out 312 divided by 8, using a written method.
- 21st May 1963The list shows the number of pets owned by 9 pupils: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 0, 1. Write down the mode.
- 22nd May 1963During vigorous exercise, a sprinter's muscles cannot get enough oxygen. Name the substance that builds up in the muscles as a result, and state one effect this has.
- 23rd May 1963The density of olive oil is 0.92 g/cm^3. State, with a reason, whether olive oil would float or sink in water (density 1.0 g/cm^3).
- 24th May 1963A parcel of mass 2.5 kg is lifted onto a shelf 2 m above the ground. Take g = 10 N/kg and use GPE = mass x g x height. Calculate the gain in gravitational potential energy.
- 25th May 1963A cyclist travels 300 m in 25 s. Calculate her average speed.
- 26th May 1963Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
- 27th May 1963A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 28th May 1963A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
- 29th May 1963Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Dust rose from the floor, and Elias covered his mouth."
- 30th May 1963Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The old house was SCARY.'
- 31st May 1963Which word from 'the tannoy crackled out another indistinct apology' suggests the announcement was hard to understand?