Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1971 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1971
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1971In a chromatography experiment, the solvent front travels 10 cm and a dye spot travels 4 cm. Calculate the Rf value of the dye.
- 2nd July 1971An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 3rd July 1971Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 4th July 1971State the name given to a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to the surroundings.
- 5th July 1971State the products formed when a metal reacts with an acid.
- 6th July 1971In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 7th July 1971Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 8th July 1971Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 9th July 1971Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 10th July 1971Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 11th July 1971Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 12th July 1971Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 13th July 1971A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 14th July 1971A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 15th July 1971Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 16th July 1971Find 2/9 of 63.
- 17th July 1971Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 18th July 1971A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 19th July 1971Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 20th July 1971A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 21st July 1971A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 22nd July 1971A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 23rd July 1971State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 24th July 1971Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 25th July 1971Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 26th July 1971Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 27th July 1971Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 28th July 1971Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 29th July 1971In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 30th July 1971Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 31st July 1971Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?