Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1965 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1965
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1965Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 2nd January 1965State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 3rd January 1965State the name given to a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to the surroundings.
- 4th January 1965State the products formed when a metal reacts with an acid.
- 5th January 1965A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 6th January 1965Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 7th January 1965Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 8th January 1965Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 9th January 1965A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 10th January 1965A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 11th January 1965This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 12th January 1965In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 13th January 1965A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 14th January 1965Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 15th January 1965Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 16th January 1965A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 17th January 1965A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 18th January 1965A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 19th January 1965A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 20th January 1965A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 21st January 1965Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 22nd January 1965State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 23rd January 1965Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 24th January 1965A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 25th January 1965In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 26th January 1965Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 27th January 1965A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 28th January 1965Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 29th January 1965Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 30th January 1965What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 31st January 1965Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)