Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1967 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1967
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1967A poem compares old age to 'a candle guttering low, still giving light.' Name this technique.
- 2nd July 1967Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The fire hissed and spat its sparks'?
- 3rd July 1967Find and copy one word from 'the mist swallowed the path ahead of him' that gives the mist a human or animal-like quality.
- 4th July 1967This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 5th July 1967A diver signals "all clear" with a steady hand, but his eyes keep darting towards the wreck's dark entrance. Explain what the contrast between his signal and his eyes suggests.
- 6th July 1967Find 2/5 of 65.
- 7th July 1967Find 1/3 of 96.
- 8th July 1967Work out -12 + 4 x 3.
- 9th July 1967Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
- 10th July 1967Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
- 11th July 1967Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 12th July 1967In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 13th July 1967A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 14th July 1967Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 15th July 1967Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 16th July 1967Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 17th July 1967A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 18th July 1967In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 19th July 1967Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 20th July 1967A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
- 21st July 1967A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
- 22nd July 1967A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 23rd July 1967Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 24th July 1967Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 25th July 1967Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 26th July 1967What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 27th July 1967Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
- 28th July 1967Find the midpoint of the line segment joining (-4, 2) and (6, -8).
- 29th July 1967A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 30th July 1967Find 3/8 of 64.
- 31st July 1967Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.