Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1964 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1964
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1964A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 2nd March 1964A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 3rd March 1964A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 4th March 1964Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 5th March 1964After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 6th March 1964On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
- 7th March 1964Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 8th March 1964Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 9th March 1964A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 10th March 1964Work out 9 x 7.
- 11th March 1964State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 12th March 1964Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 13th March 1964In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 14th March 1964Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 15th March 1964State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.
- 16th March 1964A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 17th March 1964State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 18th March 1964Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 19th March 1964A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 20th March 1964A travel brochure and a science textbook both describe coral reefs. Which is more likely to use exaggerated, emotive language, and why?
- 21st March 1964A leaflet states 'You could help save a hundred bottles a year.' Which word directly addresses the reader?
- 22nd March 1964Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The rain fell steadily.'
- 23rd March 1964Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the suitcase on the platform."
- 24th March 1964Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Crates of fruit lined the pavement."
- 25th March 1964A spinner has a probability of 0.3 of landing on red, a probability of 0.45 of landing on blue, and the remaining probability of landing on green. Find the probability of landing on green.
- 26th March 1964Solve x^2 - 5x + 6 = 0.
- 27th March 1964A survey asked 25 people how many books they read last month: 6 people read 0, 10 read 1, 6 read 2, 3 read 3. Work out the mean number of books read.
- 28th March 1964Work out 60% of 45.
- 29th March 1964A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
- 30th March 1964A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
- 31st March 1964Expand 4(3x + 2).