Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1968 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1968
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1968Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 2nd April 1968Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 3rd April 1968In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 4th April 1968A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 5th April 1968Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 6th April 1968A scatter graph plots the number of hours 10 students spent revising against their test scores. The points show that more hours of revision is generally associated with a higher test score, though not perfectly. Describe the type of correlation shown, and state one thing this correlation does not prove.
- 7th April 1968Simplify (3x^2 y^3)^2 divided by 9x^3 y^4, giving your answer as simply as possible.
- 8th April 1968Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 9th April 1968Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 10th April 1968A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 11th April 1968Name the specialised cell in humans that is adapted with a long tail and many mitochondria to swim toward an egg cell.
- 12th April 1968State what happens to a catalyst during a chemical reaction.
- 13th April 1968A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 14th April 1968A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 15th April 1968A trolley of mass 2 kg is raised to a height of 5 m. Use GPE = mass x gravitational field strength x height (g = 10 N/kg) to calculate its gravitational potential energy.
- 16th April 1968Name the planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
- 17th April 1968In the sentence "The exhausted runner collapsed across the finish line," what word class is "exhausted"?
- 18th April 1968A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 19th April 1968In an extract, a character "kept glancing at the door and twisting the strap of her bag." What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 20th April 1968Write one short sentence (no more than five words) suitable for a moment of sudden shock in a story.
- 21st April 1968Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The gates creaked open.
- 22nd April 1968What is the effect of directly addressing an audience as 'you' in a speech?
- 23rd April 1968Is the claim 'this is the most dangerous road crossing in the whole town' a fact or an opinion? Explain your answer.
- 24th April 1968Express 60 as a product of its prime factors, then use this to find the lowest common multiple (LCM) of 60 and 24.
- 25th April 1968p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 4, p = 15. Work out the value of p when q = 10.
- 26th April 1968A cafe sells 3 coffees at 2.40 pounds each and 2 teas at 1.60 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 27th April 1968y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 3, y = 45. Work out y when x = 5.
- 28th April 1968A survey asked 30 people how many siblings they have: 9 have 0, 12 have 1, 6 have 2, 3 have 3. Work out the mean number of siblings.
- 29th April 1968A machine produces 480 items in a day that lasts 7.5 hours. Work out the number of items produced per hour.
- 30th April 1968Work out 6^2 - sqrt(49).