Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1970 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1970
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1970State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 2nd February 1970A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 3rd February 1970What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 4th February 1970A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 5th February 1970Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 6th February 1970Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 7th February 1970Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 8th February 1970Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 9th February 1970A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.
- 10th February 1970In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 11th February 1970A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 12th February 1970Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 13th February 1970A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 14th February 1970The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 15th February 1970Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 16th February 1970Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 17th February 1970A jacket priced at 84 pounds is increased by 25% for the winter season. Calculate the new price.
- 18th February 1970A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 19th February 1970Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 20th February 1970State the unit normally used for speed in physics, and name one other unit that speed could also correctly be measured in.
- 21st February 1970Two forces of 10 N and 10 N act on an object in exactly opposite directions. Calculate the resultant force.
- 22nd February 1970Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 23rd February 1970A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 24th February 1970Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: the coach shouted keep going were nearly there
- 25th February 1970A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 26th February 1970In an extract, a character "kept glancing at the door and twisting the strap of her bag." What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 27th February 1970Write one short sentence (no more than five words) suitable for a moment of sudden shock in a story.
- 28th February 1970Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The gates creaked open.