Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1973 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1973
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1973State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 2nd June 1973Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 3rd June 1973Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 4th June 1973Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 5th June 1973Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 6th June 1973In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 7th June 1973Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 8th June 1973Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 9th June 1973Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 10th June 1973Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 11th June 1973Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 12th June 1973You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 13th June 1973A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
- 14th June 1973A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 15th June 1973Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 16th June 1973Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 17th June 1973Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 18th June 1973Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 19th June 1973Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 20th June 1973A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 21st June 1973Work out 9 x 7.
- 22nd June 1973A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 23rd June 1973A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 24th June 1973Name the circuit component whose symbol is a circle with a cross inside it.
- 25th June 1973Name the process by which digested food molecules pass from the small intestine into the blood.
- 26th June 1973An old-style filament light bulb transfers 100 J of electrical energy. Of this, 20 J is transferred usefully as light, and the rest is wasted as heat. Calculate the energy wasted as heat.
- 27th June 1973Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
- 28th June 1973A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.
- 29th June 1973Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 30th June 1973A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?