Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1966 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1966
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1966Before starting a watering investigation, a pupil writes this prediction: a plant given more water each day will grow taller than one given less water. State one piece of scientific reasoning that could support this prediction.
- 2nd July 1966Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the map in the drawer."
- 3rd July 1966Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
- 4th July 1966A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 5th July 1966Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
- 6th July 1966A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 7th July 1966Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 8th July 1966In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 9th July 1966Calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 9 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 10th July 1966Find 30% of 150.
- 11th July 1966Work out 13^2.
- 12th July 1966Find 5/6 of 72.
- 13th July 1966A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 14th July 1966A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 15th July 1966Calculate 74 - 38.
- 16th July 1966Work out -7 + 15.
- 17th July 1966A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 18th July 1966Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 19th July 1966Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
- 20th July 1966An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 21st July 1966Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 22nd July 1966Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 23rd July 1966Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
- 24th July 1966A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 25th July 1966Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 26th July 1966Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 27th July 1966Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 28th July 1966A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 29th July 1966A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 30th July 1966Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 31st July 1966Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?