Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 1973 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1973
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1973Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 2nd October 1973Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 3rd October 1973What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 4th October 1973Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
- 5th October 1973The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 6th October 1973Find 35% of 180.
- 7th October 19733/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
- 8th October 1973Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).
- 9th October 1973Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 10th October 1973A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 11th October 1973A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 12th October 1973A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 13th October 1973Name the joint type found in the hip, and state one other place in the body where this same joint type is found.
- 14th October 1973Complete the word equation: hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide produces ___ + ___.
- 15th October 1973A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
- 16th October 1973Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 17th October 1973State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 18th October 1973State whether an acid has a pH value above or below 7.
- 19th October 1973A hazard symbol shows a skull and crossbones on an orange background. State what hazard this represents.
- 20th October 1973A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 21st October 1973What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 22nd October 1973A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 23rd October 1973Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 24th October 1973Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 25th October 1973Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 26th October 1973Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 27th October 1973Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.
- 28th October 1973In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 29th October 1973A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 30th October 1973Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 31st October 1973A class recorded how many books each of 25 students read in a month: 5 students read 0-2 books, 12 students read 3-5 books, and 8 students read 6-8 books. Using midpoints 1, 4 and 7, estimate the mean number of books read.