Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1971 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1971
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1971Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 2nd August 1971Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 3rd August 1971Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 4th August 1971A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 5th August 1971A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 6th August 1971The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 7th August 1971Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 8th August 19713/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
- 9th August 1971Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).
- 10th August 1971Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 11th August 1971Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 12th August 1971A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 13th August 1971Work out 9 x 7.
- 14th August 1971Name the joint type found in the hip, and state one other place in the body where this same joint type is found.
- 15th August 1971Complete the word equation: hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide produces ___ + ___.
- 16th August 1971In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 17th August 1971Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 18th August 1971State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.
- 19th August 1971State whether an acid has a pH value above or below 7.
- 20th August 1971A hazard symbol shows a skull and crossbones on an orange background. State what hazard this represents.
- 21st August 1971Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 22nd August 1971A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 23rd August 1971A travel brochure and a science textbook both describe coral reefs. Which is more likely to use exaggerated, emotive language, and why?
- 24th August 1971A leaflet states 'You could help save a hundred bottles a year.' Which word directly addresses the reader?
- 25th August 1971Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The rain fell steadily.'
- 26th August 1971Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the suitcase on the platform."
- 27th August 1971Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Crates of fruit lined the pavement."
- 28th August 1971A spinner has a probability of 0.3 of landing on red, a probability of 0.45 of landing on blue, and the remaining probability of landing on green. Find the probability of landing on green.
- 29th August 1971Solve x^2 - 5x + 6 = 0.
- 30th August 1971A survey asked 25 people how many books they read last month: 6 people read 0, 10 read 1, 6 read 2, 3 read 3. Work out the mean number of books read.
- 31st August 1971Work out 60% of 45.