Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1968 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1968
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1968Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 2nd November 1968A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
- 3rd November 1968Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 4th November 1968State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 5th November 1968A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
- 6th November 1968A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.
- 7th November 1968In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 8th November 1968In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 9th November 1968A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 10th November 1968An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 11th November 1968Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 12th November 1968Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 13th November 1968Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 14th November 1968Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 15th November 1968Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 16th November 1968A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 17th November 1968Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 18th November 1968A fair coin is flipped and a fair six-sided dice is rolled at the same time. Work out the probability of getting heads on the coin and a number greater than 4 on the dice.
- 19th November 1968Femi can complete a job alone in 2 hours, Grace can complete the same job alone in 3 hours, and Hassan can complete it alone in 6 hours. Working together at these constant rates, how long will it take them to complete the job?
- 20th November 1968Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 21st November 1968Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 22nd November 1968A 750 gram box of cereal costs 2.40 pounds, and a 500 gram box of the same cereal costs 1.70 pounds. Which box offers better value for money? Show your working.
- 23rd November 1968State whether human eye colour is an example of inherited variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 24th November 1968State whether an exothermic reaction transfers energy to, or takes in energy from, the surroundings.
- 25th November 1968State whether solar power is a renewable or a non-renewable energy resource.
- 26th November 1968A book rests on a table and does not move. Name the force from the table that balances the book's weight.
- 27th November 1968State the unit used to measure electric current.
- 28th November 1968State the name of the force that acts to slow down a moving object due to contact between two surfaces.
- 29th November 1968Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 30th November 1968A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?