Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1966 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1966
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1966Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 2nd January 1966In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 3rd January 1966Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 4th January 1966Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 5th January 1966Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 6th January 1966Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 7th January 1966Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 8th January 1966You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 9th January 1966A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 10th January 1966A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 11th January 1966Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 12th January 1966Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 13th January 1966Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 14th January 1966Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 15th January 1966Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 16th January 1966A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 17th January 1966Work out 9 x 7.
- 18th January 1966Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 19th January 1966State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 20th January 1966Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.
- 21st January 1966Name the process by which digested food molecules pass from the small intestine into the blood.
- 22nd January 1966An old-style filament light bulb transfers 100 J of electrical energy. Of this, 20 J is transferred usefully as light, and the rest is wasted as heat. Calculate the energy wasted as heat.
- 23rd January 1966Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 24th January 1966On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 25th January 1966Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 26th January 1966A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 27th January 1966A travel brochure and a science textbook both describe coral reefs. Which is more likely to use exaggerated, emotive language, and why?
- 28th January 1966A leaflet states 'You could help save a hundred bottles a year.' Which word directly addresses the reader?
- 29th January 1966Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The rain fell steadily.'
- 30th January 1966Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the suitcase on the platform."
- 31st January 1966Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Crates of fruit lined the pavement."