Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1973 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1973
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1973Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 2nd March 1973Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 3rd March 1973A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 4th March 1973Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 5th March 1973A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 6th March 1973A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
- 7th March 1973A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.
- 8th March 1973A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 9th March 1973A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 10th March 1973In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 11th March 1973Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 12th March 1973Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 13th March 1973Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 14th March 1973Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 15th March 1973Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 16th March 1973A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 17th March 1973The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.
- 18th March 1973Work out 84 / 12.
- 19th March 1973A fair coin is flipped and a fair six-sided dice is rolled at the same time. Work out the probability of getting heads on the coin and a number greater than 4 on the dice.
- 20th March 1973Femi can complete a job alone in 2 hours, Grace can complete the same job alone in 3 hours, and Hassan can complete it alone in 6 hours. Working together at these constant rates, how long will it take them to complete the job?
- 21st March 1973p = 5, q = -2. Work out the value of 3p + q.
- 22nd March 1973A bag has 4 yellow and 6 purple counters. Find the probability of picking a purple counter.
- 23rd March 1973A meal out costs 68 pounds before a 12.5% service charge is added. Calculate the total cost including the service charge.
- 24th March 1973State whether human eye colour is an example of inherited variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 25th March 1973State whether an exothermic reaction transfers energy to, or takes in energy from, the surroundings.
- 26th March 1973A skateboarder travels at a constant speed of 4 m/s for 6 seconds. Use acceleration = change in velocity / time taken to state his acceleration during this time, and explain what an acceleration of zero means about his motion.
- 27th March 1973A hand warmer gets hot when a chemical reaction inside it takes place. State whether this reaction is exothermic or endothermic.
- 28th March 1973State the unit used to measure electric current.
- 29th March 1973State the name of the force that acts to slow down a moving object due to contact between two surfaces.
- 30th March 1973In the sentence "The exhausted runner collapsed across the finish line," what word class is "exhausted"?
- 31st March 1973In an extract, a character 'set down his tools without a word and walked out into the rain.' What might this action suggest about his state of mind?