Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1971 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1971
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1971Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
- 2nd February 1971Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go near the big wheel warned tom its not safe
- 3rd February 1971A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 4th February 1971What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 5th February 1971List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 6th February 1971y is directly proportional to x. When x = 5, y = 30. Work out the value of y when x = 8.
- 7th February 1971Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 8th February 1971A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 9th February 1971A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 10th February 1971Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 11th February 1971Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 12th February 1971Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 13th February 1971A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 14th February 1971A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 15th February 1971Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 16th February 1971Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 17th February 1971Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 18th February 1971Name one renewable energy resource.
- 19th February 1971State the name given to elements found in Group 1 of the periodic table.
- 20th February 1971A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 21st February 1971Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 22nd February 1971Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 23rd February 1971In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 24th February 1971Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 25th February 1971A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 26th February 1971An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 27th February 1971A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 28th February 1971Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.