Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1974 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1974
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1974A recipe uses 3 eggs for every 240 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 7 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 2nd February 1974Work out 5 + 4 x 3 - 2.
- 3rd February 1974State the name of the structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass from a mother's blood to her developing foetus.
- 4th February 1974Name the salt produced when zinc reacts with sulfuric acid.
- 5th February 1974In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 6th February 1974Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 7th February 1974State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.
- 8th February 1974Name the type of teeth used mainly for cutting food.
- 9th February 1974State why it is good practice to run a quick preliminary (trial) experiment before starting the main investigation.
- 10th February 1974A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "extremely cold." Which of these fits: "freezing", "mild", "warm" or "humid"?
- 11th February 1974A factual article about volcanic islands is broken into sections titled 'How islands form', 'Life on the slopes' and 'Living with the risk'. What are these called, and what is their purpose?
- 12th February 1974You are asked to summarise a whole article in two sentences. What should you prioritise including?
- 13th February 1974Is the claim 'recycling is clearly the most important thing you can do for the planet' a fact or an opinion?
- 14th February 1974Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Because the tide was rising, the children ran back up the beach.'
- 15th February 1974Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: mind the gap called the guard as the doors slid shut
- 16th February 1974Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "A trader called out his prices, and shoppers began to gather."
- 17th February 1974A spinner has a probability of 0.3 of landing on red, a probability of 0.45 of landing on blue, and the remaining probability of landing on green. Find the probability of landing on green.
- 18th February 1974p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 3, p = 20. Work out p when q = 12.
- 19th February 1974Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(2, -3) and B(-6, 9).
- 20th February 1974A train journey of 175 km takes 2.5 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 21st February 1974Two hockey teams recorded the number of goals they scored in their last 5 matches. Team A: 2, 3, 2, 4, 4. Team B: 0, 1, 5, 6, 3. Compare the two teams by working out the mean and the range for each.
- 22nd February 1974Simplify sqrt(50) - sqrt(8), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(2).
- 23rd February 1974Simplify 6a + 4b - 2a + 5b.
- 24th February 1974A car depreciates by 15% each year. It is worth 20,000 pounds now. Work out its value after 1 year.
- 25th February 1974Calculate the simple interest earned on 600 pounds saved for 3 years at an annual rate of 4%.
- 26th February 1974A pupil views onion cells under a microscope after adding a drop of iodine solution to the slide. State why the iodine solution was added.
- 27th February 1974A student dissolves ammonium nitrate in water and the temperature of the solution falls. State whether this process is exothermic or endothermic.
- 28th February 1974A wind turbine and a coal power station both generate electricity, but only one of them directly burns fuel to boil water into steam. State which one this is, and name the component that this steam turns.