Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1968 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1968
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1968Find 35% of 160 pounds.
- 2nd August 1968On a microscope, the eyepiece lens has a magnification of x10 and the objective lens in use has a magnification of x40. Calculate the total magnification.
- 3rd August 1968In the disappearing cross experiment, a student times how long it takes for a cross under the flask to disappear from view. Explain why a shorter time indicates a faster reaction.
- 4th August 1968A runner covers 400 m in 50 seconds at a constant speed. Use speed = distance / time to calculate her speed.
- 5th August 1968Some endothermic reactions cause the temperature of their surroundings to fall. Explain, in terms of energy, why this happens.
- 6th August 1968A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 7th August 1968State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
- 8th August 1968Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
- 9th August 1968An apprentice is described as 'chewing the inside of his cheek and avoiding his master's eye.' What does this suggest about how he feels?
- 10th August 1968Which word means the same as "cluttered" in a sentence describing a messy attic: "crammed", "empty", "tidy" or "spacious"?
- 11th August 1968Rewrite this line of dialogue to remove the overused adverb, showing the emotion instead: 'I'm not scared,' she said bravely.
- 12th August 1968Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The lights flickered, and the music started on its own.
- 13th August 1968Name the technique used in this line: New voices. New ideas. New confidence.
- 14th August 1968What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 15th August 1968Calculate the value of 7 + 2 x (6 - 3) x 2, showing your method.
- 16th August 1968The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Work out the size of the largest angle.
- 17th August 1968A prize fund of 150 pounds is shared between two clubs in the ratio 2:3. Work out the larger share.
- 18th August 1968In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 50 degrees and the hypotenuse is 14 cm. Work out the length of the side opposite angle A, to 1 decimal place.
- 19th August 1968Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-5, -2) and B(9, 6).
- 20th August 1968A rectangle has an area of 84 cm^2 and a length of 9.6 cm. Work out its width, to 1 decimal place.
- 21st August 1968Decrease 350 pounds by 18%.
- 22nd August 1968Work out 2/5 of 65.
- 23rd August 1968Five pupils recorded the number of minutes they spent reading yesterday: 9, 13, 20, 11, 17. Find the mean number of minutes.
- 24th August 1968Name the organelle found in both plant and animal cells that is the site of aerobic respiration.
- 25th August 1968A block of wood has a mass of 60 g and a volume of 80 cm^3. Calculate its density.
- 26th August 1968A farmer weighing 900 N stands on the ground. Her boots have a total sole area of 0.03 m^2. Use pressure = force / area to calculate the pressure she exerts on the ground, giving your answer in Pa.
- 27th August 1968Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 28th August 1968Name one renewable energy resource.
- 29th August 1968State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.
- 30th August 1968A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 31st August 1968Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the handle was rusted solid, the door creaked open at last."