Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1965 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1965
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1965Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
- 2nd December 1965A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
- 3rd December 1965Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
- 4th December 1965Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 5th December 1965Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 6th December 1965A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 7th December 1965State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 8th December 1965Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 9th December 1965State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 10th December 1965In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 11th December 1965Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 12th December 1965Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 13th December 1965Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 14th December 1965Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 15th December 1965Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 16th December 1965Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
- 17th December 1965A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 18th December 1965Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 19th December 1965Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 20th December 1965Find 2/9 of 63.
- 21st December 1965Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 22nd December 1965A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 23rd December 1965Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 24th December 1965A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 25th December 1965A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 26th December 1965The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 27th December 1965Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 28th December 1965A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 29th December 1965Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 30th December 1965Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 31st December 1965State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.