Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1965 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1965
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1965A parcel of mass 2.5 kg is lifted onto a shelf 2 m above the ground. Take g = 10 N/kg and use GPE = mass x g x height. Calculate the gain in gravitational potential energy.
- 2nd April 1965A solution turns universal indicator paper red. State whether the solution is acidic, neutral or alkaline.
- 3rd April 1965State one disadvantage of burning coal to generate electricity.
- 4th April 1965Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
- 5th April 1965In an investigation into reaction time, a pupil's results are 0.18 s, 0.19 s, 0.61 s, 0.18 s and 0.20 s. Identify the anomalous result, and suggest one likely reason it occurred.
- 6th April 1965Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Dust rose from the floor, and Elias covered his mouth."
- 7th April 1965Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The old house was SCARY.'
- 8th April 1965Which word from 'the tannoy crackled out another indistinct apology' suggests the announcement was hard to understand?
- 9th April 1965A diver 'counted her breaths, trying to make each one last longer than the last.' What does this suggest about her situation?
- 10th April 1965In a poem, the line "Waves gnaw at the cliff's grey chin" contains an example of which technique?
- 11th April 1965An article states 'Pupils who read for pleasure for just ten minutes a day report feeling calmer.' Name the technique used here.
- 12th April 1965A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
- 13th April 1965A trapezium has parallel sides of 6 cm and 10 cm, and a height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 14th April 1965Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
- 15th April 1965A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
- 16th April 1965A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
- 17th April 1965A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
- 18th April 1965Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 19th April 1965A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 20th April 1965Work out -3 - 6.
- 21st April 1965Work out -9 + 15.
- 22nd April 1965State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 23rd April 1965State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 24th April 1965A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
- 25th April 1965State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 26th April 1965A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 27th April 1965Name the three states of matter.
- 28th April 1965A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 29th April 1965Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 30th April 1965Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)