Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1974 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1974
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1974Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 2nd January 1974Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 3rd January 1974Find 2/5 of 65.
- 4th January 1974Work out 9 x 8.
- 5th January 1974Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 6th January 1974y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 7th January 1974Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 8th January 1974Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 9th January 1974In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
- 10th January 1974State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 11th January 1974A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 12th January 1974Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
- 13th January 1974Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- 14th January 1974Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 15th January 1974Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 16th January 1974Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
- 17th January 1974Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 18th January 1974In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 19th January 1974A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 20th January 1974Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 21st January 1974Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 22nd January 1974Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 23rd January 1974A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 24th January 1974A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 25th January 1974A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 26th January 1974A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 27th January 1974Write 0.72 as a percentage.
- 28th January 1974Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
- 29th January 1974A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
- 30th January 1974A chord divides a circle so that the angle at the centre is 130 degrees. Work out the angle at the circumference subtended by the same chord, on the major arc.
- 31st January 1974Factorise 2x^2 + 7x + 3.