Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1971 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1971
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1971Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 2nd December 1971A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 3rd December 1971A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 4th December 1971A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 5th December 1971State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 6th December 1971Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 7th December 1971A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 8th December 1971State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
- 9th December 1971State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
- 10th December 1971Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 11th December 1971State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 12th December 1971A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 13th December 1971What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 14th December 1971A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 15th December 1971Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 16th December 1971Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 17th December 1971Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 18th December 1971Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 19th December 1971A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 20th December 1971In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 21st December 1971A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 22nd December 1971Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 23rd December 1971Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 24th December 1971Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 25th December 1971Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 26th December 1971Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 27th December 1971Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 28th December 1971A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 29th December 1971A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 30th December 1971State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 31st December 1971State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.