Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1963 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1963A diver 'counted her breaths, trying to make each one last longer than the last.' What does this suggest about her situation?
- 2nd June 1963In a poem, the line "Waves gnaw at the cliff's grey chin" contains an example of which technique?
- 3rd June 1963An article states 'Pupils who read for pleasure for just ten minutes a day report feeling calmer.' Name the technique used here.
- 4th June 1963A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
- 5th June 1963An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
- 6th June 1963Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
- 7th June 1963A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
- 8th June 1963A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
- 9th June 1963A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
- 10th June 1963Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 11th June 1963A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 12th June 1963Work out -3 - 6.
- 13th June 1963Work out -9 + 15.
- 14th June 1963In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 15th June 1963State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 16th June 1963A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 17th June 1963State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 18th June 1963State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 19th June 1963Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 20th June 1963A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 21st June 1963Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 22nd June 1963Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 23rd June 1963What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 24th June 1963Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 25th June 1963A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 26th June 1963Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
- 27th June 1963A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 28th June 1963A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 29th June 1963Work out 40% of 65.
- 30th June 1963A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.