Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1973 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1973
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1973State whether gold is a very reactive or a very unreactive metal, given that it is found in the Earth as the pure metal rather than in a compound.
- 2nd December 1973Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
- 3rd December 1973Before starting a watering investigation, a pupil writes this prediction: a plant given more water each day will grow taller than one given less water. State one piece of scientific reasoning that could support this prediction.
- 4th December 1973Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the map in the drawer."
- 5th December 1973Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
- 6th December 1973A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 7th December 1973Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
- 8th December 1973A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 9th December 1973Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 10th December 1973In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 11th December 1973Calculate the circumference of a circle with a radius of 9 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 12th December 1973Find 30% of 150.
- 13th December 1973Work out 13^2.
- 14th December 1973Find 5/6 of 72.
- 15th December 1973A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 16th December 1973A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 17th December 1973Calculate 74 - 38.
- 18th December 1973Work out -7 + 15.
- 19th December 1973A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 20th December 1973State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 21st December 1973State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 22nd December 1973An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 23rd December 1973Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 24th December 1973A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 25th December 1973Name the three states of matter.
- 26th December 1973A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 27th December 1973Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 28th December 1973Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 29th December 1973Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 30th December 1973A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 31st December 1973A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?