Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1970 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1970
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1970Calculate 74 - 38.
- 2nd April 1970Work out -7 + 15.
- 3rd April 1970A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 4th April 1970Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 5th April 1970Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 6th April 1970A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
- 7th April 1970State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 8th April 1970Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 9th April 1970State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 10th April 1970A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 11th April 1970Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 12th April 1970Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 13th April 1970Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 14th April 1970A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 15th April 1970A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 16th April 1970In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 17th April 1970Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 18th April 1970Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 19th April 1970Work out 9 x 8.
- 20th April 1970Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 21st April 1970y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 22nd April 1970Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 23rd April 1970Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 24th April 1970A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 25th April 1970State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 26th April 1970Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 27th April 1970Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 28th April 1970A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 29th April 1970A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 30th April 1970State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.