Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1966 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1966
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1966Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 2nd September 1966Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 3rd September 1966In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 4th September 1966Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 5th September 1966State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.
- 6th September 1966A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
- 7th September 1966A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.
- 8th September 1966A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 9th September 1966A factual article about volcanic islands is broken into sections titled 'How islands form', 'Life on the slopes' and 'Living with the risk'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 10th September 1966You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 11th September 1966Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?
- 12th September 1966Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 13th September 1966Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 14th September 1966Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 15th September 1966A spinner has a probability of 0.3 of landing on red, a probability of 0.45 of landing on blue, and the remaining probability of landing on green. Find the probability of landing on green.
- 16th September 1966p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 17th September 1966Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 18th September 1966A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 19th September 1966A fair coin is flipped and a fair six-sided dice is rolled at the same time. Work out the probability of getting heads on the coin and a number greater than 4 on the dice.
- 20th September 1966Femi can complete a job alone in 2 hours, Grace can complete the same job alone in 3 hours, and Hassan can complete it alone in 6 hours. Working together at these constant rates, how long will it take them to complete the job?
- 21st September 1966Simplify 6a + 4b - 2a + 5b.
- 22nd September 1966A car depreciates by 15% each year. It is worth 20,000 pounds now. Work out its value after 1 year.
- 23rd September 1966Calculate the simple interest earned on 600 pounds saved for 3 years at an annual rate of 4%.
- 24th September 1966State whether human eye colour is an example of inherited variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 25th September 1966State whether an exothermic reaction transfers energy to, or takes in energy from, the surroundings.
- 26th September 1966A wind turbine and a coal power station both generate electricity, but only one of them directly burns fuel to boil water into steam. State which one this is, and name the component that this steam turns.
- 27th September 1966A car accelerates from rest to 20 m/s in 4 s. Calculate its acceleration, using acceleration = change in velocity / time.
- 28th September 1966State the unit used to measure electric current.
- 29th September 1966State the name of the force that acts to slow down a moving object due to contact between two surfaces.
- 30th September 1966Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The two teams kits were both muddy after the match. (There is one kit set per team, and two teams in total.)