Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1974 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1974
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1974A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 2nd November 1974Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 3rd November 1974Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 4th November 1974A ray of light travels from air into a glass block and bends towards the normal at the boundary. Name this effect.
- 5th November 1974Name one structure found in a plant cell that is not found in an animal cell.
- 6th November 1974Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.
- 7th November 1974A pupil's results table is missing units for one column, headed only 'Volume'. State why it is important to always include a unit in a column heading or with a numerical answer.
- 8th November 1974Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 9th November 1974Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 10th November 1974In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 11th November 1974Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 12th November 1974A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 13th November 1974An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 14th November 1974A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 15th November 1974Calculate the perimeter of a rectangle measuring 14 cm by 8.5 cm.
- 16th November 1974Work out 12 x 7.
- 17th November 1974Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 18th November 1974Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 19th November 1974Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 20th November 1974108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 21st November 1974Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 22nd November 1974Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 23rd November 1974Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 24th November 1974A polar bear has thick white fur. State whether this is a structural or a behavioural adaptation, and explain why.
- 25th November 1974State whether reactivity increases or decreases going down Group 1, the alkali metals.
- 26th November 1974Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 27th November 1974State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 28th November 1974A ball is dropped from a height and falls freely towards the ground. State the type of energy the ball gains as it speeds up.
- 29th November 1974A pupil applies a force of 8 N to a spring and it extends by 4 cm. Use spring constant = force / extension to calculate the spring constant, in N/cm.
- 30th November 1974Which word means the same as 'ancient' in a sentence describing an old, crumbling castle: 'timeworn', 'modern', 'spacious' or 'lively'?