Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1968 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1968
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1968State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 2nd March 1968A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 3rd March 1968A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 4th March 1968Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 5th March 1968A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 6th March 1968Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 7th March 1968Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 8th March 1968Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 9th March 1968A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 10th March 1968On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 11th March 1968A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 12th March 1968Find 35% of 180.
- 13th March 1968Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 14th March 1968Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 15th March 1968Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 16th March 1968A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 17th March 1968A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 18th March 1968A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 19th March 1968Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 20th March 1968State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 21st March 1968A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 22nd March 1968Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 23rd March 1968A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 24th March 1968Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 25th March 1968On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 26th March 1968A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 27th March 1968What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 28th March 1968A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 29th March 1968Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 30th March 1968Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 31st March 1968Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."