Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1965 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1965
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1965Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 2nd September 1965A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
- 3rd September 1965A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 4th September 1965Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 5th September 1965State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 6th September 1965In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 7th September 1965Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 8th September 1965Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 9th September 1965Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 10th September 1965A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
- 11th September 1965A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
- 12th September 1965A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 13th September 1965Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 14th September 1965Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 15th September 1965Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 16th September 1965What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 17th September 1965A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 18th September 1965On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 19th September 1965Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 20th September 1965Find 3/8 of 64.
- 21st September 1965A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 22nd September 1965An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 23rd September 1965In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
- 24th September 1965A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
- 25th September 1965Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 26th September 1965Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 27th September 1965Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 28th September 1965State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 29th September 1965A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 30th September 1965Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.