Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1976 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1976
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1976Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
- 2nd February 1976A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 3rd February 1976Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the handle was rusted solid, the door creaked open at last."
- 4th February 1976Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: hurry up whispered Kofi we havent got much time
- 5th February 1976A question asks you to 'state one reason why the train was delayed, using evidence from the text.' What kind of answer is required?
- 6th February 1976A diver notices 'a single brass buckle winking in the torchlight.' Which word suggests the buckle is briefly catching and reflecting the light?
- 7th February 1976In the phrase "silent, secret snow", which technique is being used?
- 8th February 1976What is a counter-argument, and why might a writer include one?
- 9th February 1976In the phrase "silent, snow-hushed streets", which technique is being used?
- 10th February 1976Calculate the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 9 cm.
- 11th February 1976A pack of 24 pencils costs 3.60 pounds. Work out the cost of one pencil.
- 12th February 1976Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 13th February 1976A parallelogram has base 12 cm and perpendicular height 5 cm. Work out its area.
- 14th February 19763 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 15th February 1976Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 16th February 1976Work out 9 x 8.
- 17th February 1976A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 18th February 1976Work out 15% of 60.
- 19th February 1976State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 20th February 1976State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 21st February 1976A ray of light travels from air into a glass block. State whether the ray bends towards the normal or away from the normal as it enters the glass.
- 22nd February 1976Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 23rd February 1976A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 24th February 1976Name the three states of matter.
- 25th February 1976A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 26th February 1976Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 27th February 1976Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 28th February 1976Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 29th February 1976A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.