Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1972 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1972
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1972State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 2nd April 1972State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 3rd April 1972A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 4th April 1972A factual article about volcanic islands is broken into sections titled 'How islands form', 'Life on the slopes' and 'Living with the risk'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 5th April 1972You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 6th April 1972Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?
- 7th April 1972Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 8th April 1972Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 9th April 1972Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 10th April 1972A survey of 40 students' favourite sport is shown in a pie chart. If football takes up a sector of 90 degrees, what percentage of students chose football?
- 11th April 1972p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 12th April 1972Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 13th April 1972A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 14th April 1972A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 15th April 1972The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 16th April 1972Simplify 6a + 4b - 2a + 5b.
- 17th April 1972A car depreciates by 15% each year. It is worth 20,000 pounds now. Work out its value after 1 year.
- 18th April 1972Fatima earns 1800 pounds a month and saves 12% of her earnings. Calculate how much she saves each month.
- 19th April 1972A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 20th April 1972Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 21st April 1972Name one non-renewable energy resource used to generate electricity, other than coal.
- 22nd April 1972Name the five main kingdoms into which living things can be classified.
- 23rd April 1972Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 24th April 1972A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 25th April 1972Find and correct the tense error in this sentence: Last week, the team trains hard and wins every match.
- 26th April 1972An apprentice is described as 'chewing the inside of his cheek and avoiding his master's eye.' What does this suggest about how he feels?
- 27th April 1972Which word means the same as "cluttered" in a sentence describing a messy attic: "crammed", "empty", "tidy" or "spacious"?
- 28th April 1972Rewrite this line of dialogue to remove the overused adverb, showing the emotion instead: 'I'm not scared,' she said bravely.
- 29th April 1972Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: The lights flickered, and the music started on its own.
- 30th April 1972Name the technique used in this line: New voices. New ideas. New confidence.