Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1964 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1964
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1964Find the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 7 cm.
- 2nd January 1964A box contains 7 yellow pencils, 5 blue pencils and 3 green pencils. A pencil is picked at random. Find the probability that it is not blue.
- 3rd January 1964State one structure found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.
- 4th January 1964A sample of matter has particles that are far apart and moving quickly in random directions. State which state of matter this describes.
- 5th January 1964In a tug of war, Team X pulls with a force of 640 N and Team Y pulls with a force of 590 N in the opposite direction. Calculate the resultant force acting on the rope.
- 6th January 1964Name the type of blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart under high pressure.
- 7th January 1964State whether gold is a very reactive or a very unreactive metal, given that it is found in the Earth as the pure metal rather than in a compound.
- 8th January 1964Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.
- 9th January 1964Before starting a watering investigation, a pupil writes this prediction: a plant given more water each day will grow taller than one given less water. State one piece of scientific reasoning that could support this prediction.
- 10th January 1964Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
- 11th January 1964Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
- 12th January 1964A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
- 13th January 1964A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 14th January 1964A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
- 15th January 1964Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
- 16th January 1964A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
- 17th January 1964Calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 9 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 18th January 1964Work out -4 - 7.
- 19th January 1964Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
- 20th January 1964Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
- 21st January 1964A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
- 22nd January 1964Calculate 56 + 29.
- 23rd January 1964Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
- 24th January 1964A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
- 25th January 1964Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
- 26th January 1964A polar bear has thick white fur. State whether this is a structural or a behavioural adaptation, and explain why.
- 27th January 1964State whether reactivity increases or decreases going down Group 1, the alkali metals.
- 28th January 1964An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 29th January 1964Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 30th January 1964A ball is dropped from a height and falls freely towards the ground. State the type of energy the ball gains as it speeds up.
- 31st January 1964A pupil applies a force of 8 N to a spring and it extends by 4 cm. Use spring constant = force / extension to calculate the spring constant, in N/cm.