Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1963 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1963A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 2nd September 1963What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 3rd September 1963List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 4th September 1963Write 0.00042 in standard form.
- 5th September 1963Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 6th September 1963A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 7th September 1963A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 8th September 1963Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 9th September 1963Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 10th September 1963Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 11th September 1963A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 12th September 1963A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 13th September 1963Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 14th September 1963Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 15th September 1963Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 16th September 1963Name one renewable energy resource.
- 17th September 1963A wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 5 Hz. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 18th September 1963A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 19th September 1963Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 20th September 1963Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 21st September 1963In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 22nd September 1963Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 23rd September 1963A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 24th September 1963An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 25th September 1963A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 26th September 1963Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.
- 27th September 1963Work out 12 x 7.
- 28th September 1963Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 29th September 1963Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 30th September 1963Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?