Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1964 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1964
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1964In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 2nd February 1964Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 3rd February 1964Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 4th February 1964Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 5th February 1964Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 6th February 1964Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 7th February 1964Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 8th February 1964A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 9th February 1964A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
- 10th February 1964Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 11th February 1964Find 2/9 of 63.
- 12th February 1964Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 13th February 1964A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 14th February 1964Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 15th February 1964A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 16th February 1964A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 17th February 1964A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 18th February 1964Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 19th February 1964Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 20th February 1964Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 21st February 1964Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 22nd February 1964State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 23rd February 1964Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 24th February 1964In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 25th February 1964Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 26th February 1964Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 27th February 1964Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 28th February 1964Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 29th February 1964Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.