Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 1972 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1972
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1972Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 2nd October 1972Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 3rd October 1972What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 4th October 1972Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 5th October 1972A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 6th October 1972In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 7th October 1972A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 8th October 1972A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
- 9th October 1972Work out 40% of 65.
- 10th October 1972A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 11th October 1972p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 12th October 1972Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 13th October 1972Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 14th October 1972A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 15th October 1972A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 16th October 1972Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 17th October 1972Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 18th October 1972Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 19th October 1972A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 20th October 1972State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 21st October 1972State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 22nd October 1972A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 23rd October 1972A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 24th October 1972What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 25th October 1972A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 26th October 1972Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 27th October 1972Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 28th October 1972A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 29th October 1972A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 30th October 1972A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 31st October 1972A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.