Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1966 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1966
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1966A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 2nd March 1966A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 3rd March 1966A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 4th March 1966Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 5th March 1966A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 6th March 1966State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 7th March 1966Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 8th March 1966Name one renewable energy resource.
- 9th March 1966Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.
- 10th March 1966A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 11th March 1966Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 12th March 1966Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 13th March 1966A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 14th March 1966A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 15th March 1966If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
- 16th March 1966Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 17th March 1966If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 18th March 1966Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.
- 19th March 1966Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
- 20th March 1966Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
- 21st March 1966A stall sells 4 sandwiches at 2.20 pounds each and 3 drinks at 1.10 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 22nd March 1966Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
- 23rd March 1966Work out 8 x 6.
- 24th March 1966Find 3/5 of 45.
- 25th March 1966Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
- 26th March 1966Find 3/4 of 88.
- 27th March 1966A polar bear has thick white fur. State whether this is a structural or a behavioural adaptation, and explain why.
- 28th March 1966State whether reactivity increases or decreases going down Group 1, the alkali metals.
- 29th March 1966A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
- 30th March 1966Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 31st March 1966A ball is dropped from a height and falls freely towards the ground. State the type of energy the ball gains as it speeds up.