Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1975 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1975
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1975A character mutters "It's nothing" while quickly hiding a letter in his pocket. Explain what the contrast between his words and actions suggests.
- 2nd June 1975Explain one way an ending can 'connect back' to the opening of a story.
- 3rd June 1975Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: Although the fair had closed years ago, the carousel still turned.
- 4th June 1975Give one example of emotive language a speaker might use to persuade pupils that public speaking is worth the risk.
- 5th June 1975Name the persuasive technique used in this slogan: 'Save money. Save time. Save the planet.'
- 6th June 1975Round 4826 to the nearest hundred.
- 7th June 1975y is directly proportional to x. When x = 5, y = 30. Work out the value of y when x = 8.
- 8th June 1975Without a calculator, work out 35% of 220.
- 9th June 1975Solve x^2 + 4x - 21 = 0.
- 10th June 1975A motorbike valued at 5,500 pounds depreciates by 18% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 11th June 1975Work out 4.7 x 3.6, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 12th June 1975A car travels 189 miles using 7 gallons of fuel. Work out the miles per gallon.
- 13th June 1975A pair of trainers costs 45 pounds. The price increases by 20%. Work out the new price.
- 14th June 1975A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 15th June 1975Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 16th June 1975A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 17th June 1975State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 18th June 1975State the name given to a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being permanently used up itself.
- 19th June 1975State one advantage of using solar power to generate electricity, compared with burning fossil fuels.
- 20th June 1975State the name given to elements found in Group 1 of the periodic table.
- 21st June 1975A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 22nd June 1975Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 23rd June 1975Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 24th June 1975A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 25th June 1975A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 26th June 1975If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
- 27th June 1975Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 28th June 1975If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 29th June 1975Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 30th June 1975Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.