Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1974 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1974
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1974State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 2nd June 1974State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 3rd June 1974In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 4th June 1974In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 5th June 1974A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 6th June 1974An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 7th June 1974Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 8th June 1974Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 9th June 1974Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 10th June 1974A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.
- 11th June 1974Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 12th June 1974A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 13th June 1974Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).
- 14th June 1974A spinner can land on red, blue, green or yellow only. P(red) = 0.3, P(blue) = 0.25, P(green) = 0.2. Work out P(yellow).
- 15th June 1974The product of two consecutive positive integers is 132. Find the two integers.
- 16th June 1974Here are the first four terms of a sequence: 7, 11, 15, 19. Find an expression for the nth term.
- 17th June 1974Find the mean of 14, 18, 22, 16 and 20.
- 18th June 1974Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 19th June 1974A cell has a real width of 0.02 mm. In a drawing, the same cell is shown 4 mm wide. Calculate the magnification of the drawing.
- 20th June 1974Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.
- 21st June 1974State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 22nd June 1974State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 23rd June 1974Name the group in the periodic table that contains helium, neon and argon.
- 24th June 1974A pupil measures a mass of 3.5 kg on a set of scales. Convert this mass to grams.
- 25th June 1974This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 26th June 1974A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 27th June 1974A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 28th June 1974Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 29th June 1974Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 30th June 1974Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?