Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1968 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1968
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1968Name the persuasive technique used in this slogan: 'Save money. Save time. Save the planet.'
- 2nd January 1968Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 3rd January 1968Write 0.00042 in standard form.
- 4th January 1968Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 5th January 1968Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 6th January 1968A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 7th January 1968Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 8th January 1968A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 9th January 1968A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 10th January 1968A 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.
- 11th January 1968Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 12th January 1968A 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.
- 13th January 1968State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 14th January 1968State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
- 15th January 1968State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
- 16th January 1968A wave has a wavelength of 2 m and a frequency of 5 Hz. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 17th January 1968A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 18th January 1968Punctuate 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
- 19th January 1968Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 20th January 1968A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 21st January 1968A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 22nd January 1968If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
- 23rd January 1968Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 24th January 1968If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 25th January 1968Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 26th January 1968Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
- 27th January 1968Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
- 28th January 1968A 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.
- 29th January 1968Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
- 30th January 1968Work out 8 x 6.
- 31st January 1968Find 3/5 of 45.