Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
August 1975 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1975
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1975State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 2nd August 1975Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 3rd August 1975Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 4th August 1975Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.
- 5th August 1975A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 6th August 1975A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 7th August 1975Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 8th August 1975A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 9th August 1975Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 10th August 1975Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 11th August 1975Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 12th August 1975A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 13th August 1975On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 14th August 1975A phone contract costs 18.50 pounds per month for 24 months, plus an upfront cost of 49 pounds. Work out the total cost of the contract.
- 15th August 1975Find 35% of 180.
- 16th August 1975Solve 3(2x - 1) = x + 17.
- 17th August 1975Describe the locus of points that are equidistant from two fixed points, A and B.
- 18th August 1975Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 19th August 1975A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 20th August 1975A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 21st August 1975A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 22nd August 1975A doctor records that a foetus is 38 weeks old. Given that human gestation lasts approximately 40 weeks, state approximately how many weeks of pregnancy remain.
- 23rd August 1975A student adds a piece of unknown grey solid to dilute acid and no bubbles are produced, even after several minutes. Suggest whether the solid is a metal or a non-metal, and explain your reasoning.
- 24th August 1975A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 25th August 1975Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 26th August 1975A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 27th August 1975Name the gas needed by the body for aerobic respiration to take place.
- 28th August 1975A student investigates how the mass of five different metal samples affects their volume, with mass as a continuous numerical variable. State whether a bar chart or a line graph is the more appropriate way to display these results.
- 29th August 1975A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 30th August 1975What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 31st August 1975A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?