Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1969 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1969
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1969Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 2nd November 1969Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 3rd November 1969Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Last week, the team trains hard and wins every match.
- 4th November 1969In the sentence 'The old clock in the hallway ticked with the patience of a watchman,' which word gives the clock a human quality?
- 5th November 1969A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
- 6th November 1969Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
- 7th November 1969Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
- 8th November 1969Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
- 9th November 1969A leaflet states: 'Experts agree that recycling just one more item a week could transform our town's waste problem.' Name one persuasive technique used here.
- 10th November 1969Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 11th November 1969A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 12th November 1969Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 13th November 1969Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 14th November 1969A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 15th November 1969Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 16th November 1969A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 17th November 1969A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 18th November 1969A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 19th November 1969Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 20th November 1969A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 21st November 1969State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 22nd November 1969A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
- 23rd November 1969Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
- 24th November 1969A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 25th November 1969A pupil's results table is missing units for one column, headed only 'Volume'. State why it is important to always include a unit in a column heading or with a numerical answer.
- 26th November 1969Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 27th November 1969Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 28th November 1969A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 29th November 1969A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 30th November 1969If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?