Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 1976 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1976
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1976Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 2nd May 1976Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 3rd May 1976Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) The whistle blew; and the players stopped. B) The whistle blew; the players stopped at once.
- 4th May 1976A question asks you to 'find and copy one word which shows that the workshop was untidy.' What kind of question is this, and how should you answer it?
- 5th May 1976A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds atmosphere across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 6th May 1976Which of these would best speed up the pace of an action scene: a long sentence with several clauses, or a short, three-word sentence?
- 7th May 1976Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the funfair at midnight.'
- 8th May 1976Is the claim 'debating is clearly the single best way to build confidence' a fact or an opinion?
- 9th May 1976A charity advert says: 'You could change a child's life today.' Which word directly addresses the reader, and what effect does this have?
- 10th May 1976Work out (-5) + (-8) - (-6).
- 11th May 1976A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 12th May 1976Find 3/8 of 64.
- 13th May 1976Write 0.000078 in standard form.
- 14th May 1976A cylindrical bucket has radius 12 cm and height 25 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 15th May 1976Work out sqrt(169) + 4^2.
- 16th May 1976Increase 240 pounds by 12%.
- 17th May 1976Work out 312 divided by 8, using a written method.
- 18th May 1976The list shows the number of pets owned by 9 pupils: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 0, 1. Write down the mode.
- 19th May 1976During vigorous exercise, a sprinter's muscles cannot get enough oxygen. Name the substance that builds up in the muscles as a result, and state one effect this has.
- 20th May 1976The density of olive oil is 0.92 g/cm^3. State, with a reason, whether olive oil would float or sink in water (density 1.0 g/cm^3).
- 21st May 1976A parcel of mass 2.5 kg is lifted onto a shelf 2 m above the ground. Take g = 10 N/kg and use GPE = mass x g x height. Calculate the gain in gravitational potential energy.
- 22nd May 1976Name the type of blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart under high pressure.
- 23rd May 1976State whether gold is a very reactive or a very unreactive metal, given that it is found in the Earth as the pure metal rather than in a compound.
- 24th May 1976A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 25th May 1976Before starting a watering investigation, a pupil writes this prediction: a plant given more water each day will grow taller than one given less water. State one piece of scientific reasoning that could support this prediction.
- 26th May 1976Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Dust rose from the floor, and Elias covered his mouth."
- 27th May 1976Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The old house was SCARY.'
- 28th May 1976Which word from 'the tannoy crackled out another indistinct apology' suggests the announcement was hard to understand?
- 29th May 1976A diver 'counted her breaths, trying to make each one last longer than the last.' What does this suggest about her situation?
- 30th May 1976In a poem, the line "Waves gnaw at the cliff's grey chin" contains an example of which technique?
- 31st May 1976An article states 'Pupils who read for pleasure for just ten minutes a day report feeling calmer.' Name the technique used here.