Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1974 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1974
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1974What is a counter-argument, and why might a writer include one?
- 2nd April 1974In the phrase "silent, snow-hushed streets", which technique is being used?
- 3rd April 1974A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 4th April 1974A pack of 24 pencils costs 3.60 pounds. Work out the cost of one pencil.
- 5th April 1974Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 6th April 1974A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 7th April 19743 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 8th April 1974Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 9th April 1974Work out 9 x 8.
- 10th April 1974A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 11th April 1974Work out 15% of 60.
- 12th April 1974In the food chain 'grass, rabbit, fox', name the primary consumer.
- 13th April 1974State one physical property that distinguishes a typical non-metal from a typical metal.
- 14th April 1974State whether the Earth's day (one full rotation on its axis) or the Earth's year (one full orbit of the Sun) takes longer.
- 15th April 1974A sound wave has a high frequency. State whether this means it has a high pitch or a low pitch.
- 16th April 1974State one function of the human skeleton, other than support.
- 17th April 1974Name the enzyme found in saliva that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 18th April 1974A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 19th April 1974Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 20th April 1974Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 21st April 1974Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 22nd April 1974A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 23rd April 1974A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 24th April 1974Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
- 25th April 1974In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 26th April 1974A cinema charges 6.50 pounds for an adult ticket and 4.20 pounds for a child ticket. A family buys tickets for 2 adults and 3 children. Work out the total cost, without using a calculator.
- 27th April 1974Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 28th April 1974Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 29th April 1974A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 30th April 1974A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.