Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1964 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1964
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1964Work out 12.6 divided by 0.3.
- 2nd April 1964Calculate the simple interest earned on 600 pounds saved for 3 years at an annual rate of 4%.
- 3rd April 1964On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.
- 4th April 1964In the disappearing cross experiment, a student times how long it takes for a cross under the flask to disappear from view. Explain why a shorter time indicates a faster reaction.
- 5th April 1964A wind turbine and a coal power station both generate electricity, but only one of them directly burns fuel to boil water into steam. State which one this is, and name the component that this steam turns.
- 6th April 1964A car accelerates from rest to 20 m/s in 4 s. Calculate its acceleration, using acceleration = change in velocity / time.
- 7th April 1964A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 8th April 1964State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
- 9th April 1964Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The two teams kits were both muddy after the match. (There is one kit set per team, and two teams in total.)
- 10th April 1964In the sentence 'The old clock in the hallway ticked with the patience of a watchman,' which word gives the clock a human quality?
- 11th April 1964A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
- 12th April 1964Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
- 13th April 1964Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
- 14th April 1964Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
- 15th April 1964A speech opens with the line: 'Imagine losing your home in a single night.' What technique is this, and why is it an effective opening?
- 16th April 1964Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 17th April 1964The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Work out the size of the largest angle.
- 18th April 1964Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 19th April 1964Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 20th April 1964A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 21st April 1964Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 22nd April 1964A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 23rd April 1964A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 24th April 1964A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 25th April 1964Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 26th April 1964A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 27th April 1964State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 28th April 1964State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 29th April 1964Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
- 30th April 1964State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.