Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1964 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1964
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1964Work out 13^2.
- 2nd September 1964Find 5/6 of 72.
- 3rd September 1964A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 4th September 1964A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 5th September 1964Calculate 74 - 38.
- 6th September 1964Work out -7 + 15.
- 7th September 1964A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 8th September 1964Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 9th September 1964State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 10th September 1964State the law of reflection.
- 11th September 1964A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
- 12th September 1964Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 13th September 1964A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 14th September 1964A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 15th September 1964Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 16th September 1964Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 17th September 1964Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 18th September 1964A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 19th September 1964A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 20th September 1964Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
- 21st September 1964Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 22nd September 1964The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 23rd September 1964Work out 9 x 8.
- 24th September 1964Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 25th September 1964y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 26th September 1964Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 27th September 1964Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 28th September 1964A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 29th September 1964State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 30th September 1964Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...