Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1968 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1968
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1968Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
- 2nd February 1968Find 3/4 of 88.
- 3rd February 1968Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 4th February 1968Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 5th February 1968State why an astronaut in open space, far from any planet or star, cannot hear an explosion happening nearby.
- 6th February 1968Name the green pigment found in chloroplasts that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 7th February 1968Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 8th February 1968State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 9th February 1968A character says 'I'm fine' through gritted teeth, then slams the door. Explain what the contrast between the character's words and actions suggests.
- 10th February 1968Correct the spelling error caused by a missing doubled consonant: 'I am hopping to finish my homework before dinner' (meaning expecting, not jumping).
- 11th February 1968Correct the tense error: 'Last week, she swims to the buoy and back without stopping.'
- 12th February 1968A poem has irregular line lengths and no rhyme scheme, but a steady, insistent rhythm created by repeating the same three-syllable phrase. What technique creates this effect?
- 13th February 1968What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 14th February 1968A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 15th February 1968Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Please bring your pencil case ruler and calculator to the exam.
- 16th February 1968A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 17th February 1968Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 18th February 1968A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 19th February 1968Work out 56 / 7.
- 20th February 1968In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 21st February 1968Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 22nd February 1968Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 23rd February 1968A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 24th February 1968Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 25th February 1968Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 26th February 1968Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 27th February 1968A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 28th February 1968Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 29th February 1968Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.