Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1972 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1972
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1972A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 2nd June 1972Work out 15% of 60.
- 3rd June 1972Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 4th June 1972Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 5th June 1972Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 6th June 1972State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 7th June 1972Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 8th June 1972State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 9th June 1972A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 10th June 1972Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 11th June 1972Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 12th June 1972Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 13th June 1972A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 14th June 1972A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 15th June 1972This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 16th June 1972In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 17th June 1972Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 18th June 1972Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 19th June 1972Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 20th June 1972A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 21st June 1972A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 22nd June 1972A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 23rd June 1972A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 24th June 1972A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 25th June 1972Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 26th June 1972Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 27th June 1972A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 28th June 1972A pupil rubs a plastic rod with a cloth, giving the rod a negative electric charge. She then holds the rod near small pieces of paper on a table. State what she would observe, and explain why, in terms of electric charge.
- 29th June 1972In the food chain grass, rabbit, fox, where grass is eaten by rabbits and rabbits are eaten by foxes, name the organism that is the producer.
- 30th June 1972State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.