Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1966 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1966
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1966Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 2nd November 1966A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 3rd November 19663 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 4th November 1966Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 5th November 1966Work out 9 x 8.
- 6th November 1966A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 7th November 1966Work out 15% of 60.
- 8th November 1966Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 9th November 1966State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 10th November 1966State whether the Earth's day (one full rotation on its axis) or the Earth's year (one full orbit of the Sun) takes longer.
- 11th November 1966A sound wave has a high frequency. State whether this means it has a high pitch or a low pitch.
- 12th November 1966Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 13th November 1966A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 14th November 1966A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 15th November 1966Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 16th November 1966Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 17th November 1966Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 18th November 1966A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 19th November 1966A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 20th November 1966Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
- 21st November 1966In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 22nd November 1966The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 23rd November 1966Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 24th November 1966Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 25th November 1966A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 26th November 1966A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 27th November 1966A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 28th November 1966A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 29th November 1966A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 30th November 1966Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.