Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1971 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1971
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1971A character 'counted his steps instead of looking down.' What does this suggest about his feelings?
- 2nd November 1971Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
- 3rd November 1971A writer describes a current as "dragging greedy fingers along the wreck." Name the technique used here.
- 4th November 1971Find 2/5 of 65.
- 5th November 1971A box of 15 chocolates costs 4.50 pounds. Work out the cost of one chocolate.
- 6th November 1971Work out 56 / 7.
- 7th November 1971In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 27 degrees and the opposite side is 6 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 8th November 1971Work out 3/4 of 148.
- 9th November 1971Share 156 pounds between two people in the ratio 7:6.
- 10th November 1971In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 11th November 1971Convert 4.2 metres into centimetres.
- 12th November 1971Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
- 13th November 1971Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 14th November 1971Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 15th November 1971A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
- 16th November 1971State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
- 17th November 1971Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 18th November 1971A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 19th November 1971A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 20th November 1971Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 21st November 1971A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 22nd November 1971Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 23rd November 1971Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 24th November 1971Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 25th November 1971In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 26th November 1971A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 27th November 1971A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 28th November 1971Find 35% of 180.
- 29th November 1971Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 30th November 1971A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.