Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1969 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1969
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1969Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves through tiny pores called stomata.
- 2nd August 1969Name the structure inside a plant cell where photosynthesis takes place.
- 3rd August 1969Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
- 4th August 1969A pupil is choosing between two thermometers to measure a temperature change of about 5 degrees C: one has markings every 2 degrees C, and the other has markings every 0.2 degrees C. State which thermometer would give the more precise reading, and explain why.
- 5th August 1969Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The map was old and torn."
- 6th August 1969Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the corridor at midnight.'
- 7th August 1969A writer describes a departure board as 'flickering through a list of cancellations like a nervous heartbeat.' Name the technique used.
- 8th August 1969A character 'held his breath without realising it' as he entered a dark passage. What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 9th August 1969A poem has four lines per stanza with the rhyme pattern ABAB. What is this pattern called?
- 10th August 1969Is the claim 'reading is obviously more rewarding than scrolling through a screen' a fact or an opinion?
- 11th August 1969A question asks you to explain "how the poet's feelings towards winter change across the poem." What should your answer focus on?
- 12th August 1969A triangular prism has a cross-sectional area of 15 cm^2 and a length of 12 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 13th August 1969Work out -4 - 7.
- 14th August 1969Find the highest common factor of 24 and 36.
- 15th August 1969Simplify 6x + 4 - 2x - 9.
- 16th August 1969A basket contains 15 lemons and 25 limes. Write the ratio of lemons to limes in its simplest form.
- 17th August 1969Calculate 56 + 29.
- 18th August 1969Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
- 19th August 1969A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
- 20th August 1969Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
- 21st August 1969State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 22nd August 1969State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 23rd August 1969State the law of reflection.
- 24th August 1969A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
- 25th August 1969A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 26th August 1969Name the three states of matter.
- 27th August 1969In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 28th August 1969Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 29th August 1969Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 30th August 1969Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 31st August 1969Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.