Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1972 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1972
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1972Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 2nd January 1972Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 3rd January 1972This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 4th January 1972A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 5th January 1972In an extract, a character "kept glancing at the door and twisting the strap of her bag." What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 6th January 1972Write one short sentence (no more than five words) suitable for a moment of sudden shock in a story.
- 7th January 1972Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The gates creaked open.
- 8th January 1972What is the effect of directly addressing an audience as 'you' in a speech?
- 9th January 1972A campaign letter opens with a short, true story about one family affected by flooding, before giving any statistics. What is this technique called, and why might a writer use it first?
- 10th January 1972Express 60 as a product of its prime factors, then use this to find the lowest common multiple (LCM) of 60 and 24.
- 11th January 1972A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 12th January 1972A cafe sells 3 coffees at 2.40 pounds each and 2 teas at 1.60 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 13th January 1972y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 3, y = 45. Work out y when x = 5.
- 14th January 1972A survey asked 30 people how many siblings they have: 9 have 0, 12 have 1, 6 have 2, 3 have 3. Work out the mean number of siblings.
- 15th January 1972A machine produces 480 items in a day that lasts 7.5 hours. Work out the number of items produced per hour.
- 16th January 1972Work out 6^2 - sqrt(49).
- 17th January 1972Write 0.6 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 18th January 1972Two fair coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting at least one tail.
- 19th January 1972Which of the seven life processes describes an organism getting rid of waste products made inside its body?
- 20th January 1972State the name of the change of state when a solid changes directly into a liquid.
- 21st January 1972A trolley of mass 20 kg is pushed with a resultant force of 60 N. Use force = mass x acceleration to calculate its acceleration.
- 22nd January 1972Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves through tiny pores called stomata.
- 23rd January 1972Name the structure inside a plant cell where photosynthesis takes place.
- 24th January 1972A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 25th January 1972A pupil is choosing between two thermometers to measure a temperature change of about 5 degrees C: one has markings every 2 degrees C, and the other has markings every 0.2 degrees C. State which thermometer would give the more precise reading, and explain why.
- 26th January 1972Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the map in the drawer."
- 27th January 1972Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
- 28th January 1972A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 29th January 1972Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
- 30th January 1972A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 31st January 1972Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.