Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1968 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1968
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1968A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 2nd July 1968A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 3rd July 1968Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 4th July 1968After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 5th July 1968On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
- 6th July 1968A chord divides a circle so that the angle at the centre is 130 degrees. Work out the angle at the circumference subtended by the same chord, on the major arc.
- 7th July 1968Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.
- 8th July 1968A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 240 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 7 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 9th July 1968Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 10th July 1968State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 11th July 1968Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 12th July 1968Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.
- 13th July 1968Name the process by which digested food molecules pass from the small intestine into the blood.
- 14th July 1968An old-style filament light bulb transfers 100 J of electrical energy. Of this, 20 J is transferred usefully as light, and the rest is wasted as heat. Calculate the energy wasted as heat.
- 15th July 1968A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 16th July 1968State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 17th July 1968A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 18th July 1968A factual article about volcanic islands is broken into sections titled 'How islands form', 'Life on the slopes' and 'Living with the risk'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 19th July 1968You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 20th July 1968Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?
- 21st July 1968Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 22nd July 1968Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 23rd July 1968Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 24th July 1968Find the mean of these test scores: 14, 18, 12, 20, 16.
- 25th July 1968p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 26th July 1968Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 27th July 1968A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 28th July 1968A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
- 29th July 1968A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
- 30th July 1968Simplify 6a + 4b - 2a + 5b.
- 31st July 1968A car depreciates by 15% each year. It is worth 20,000 pounds now. Work out its value after 1 year.