Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1969 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1969
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1969Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 2nd December 1969If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 3rd December 1969Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.
- 4th December 1969Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
- 5th December 1969Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
- 6th December 1969A stall sells 4 sandwiches at 2.20 pounds each and 3 drinks at 1.10 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 7th December 1969Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
- 8th December 1969Work out 8 x 6.
- 9th December 1969Find 3/5 of 45.
- 10th December 1969Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
- 11th December 1969Find 3/4 of 88.
- 12th December 1969In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 13th December 1969State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 14th December 1969Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 15th December 1969State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 16th December 1969State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 17th December 1969Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 18th December 1969A character says 'I'm fine' through gritted teeth, then slams the door. Explain what the contrast between the character's words and actions suggests.
- 19th December 1969Correct the spelling error caused by a missing doubled consonant: 'I am hopping to finish my homework before dinner' (meaning expecting, not jumping).
- 20th December 1969Correct the tense error: 'Last week, she swims to the buoy and back without stopping.'
- 21st December 1969A poem has irregular line lengths and no rhyme scheme, but a steady, insistent rhythm created by repeating the same three-syllable phrase. What technique creates this effect?
- 22nd December 1969What is the name for a poem with no regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 23rd December 1969A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 24th December 1969This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 25th December 1969A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 26th December 1969A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 27th December 1969A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 28th December 1969Work out 56 / 7.
- 29th December 1969In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 30th December 1969Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 31st December 1969Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.