Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1975 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1975
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1975State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 2nd November 1975State the name given to a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to the surroundings.
- 3rd November 1975State the products formed when a metal reacts with an acid.
- 4th November 1975A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 5th November 1975Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 6th November 1975Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 7th November 1975Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 8th November 1975A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 9th November 1975A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 10th November 1975Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
- 11th November 1975Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 12th November 1975A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 13th November 1975Work out 9 x 8.
- 14th November 1975Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 15th November 1975y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 16th November 1975Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 17th November 1975Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 18th November 1975A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 19th November 1975State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 20th November 1975The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
- 21st November 1975State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 22nd November 1975Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 23rd November 1975Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
- 24th November 1975Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
- 25th November 1975Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 26th November 1975Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 27th November 1975In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 28th November 1975A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 29th November 1975Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 30th November 1975Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?