Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1976 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1976
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1976A dice has its six faces numbered 1 to 6, arranged so opposite faces always add up to 7. The face showing 2 is on top, and the face showing 3 is facing you. Work out which number is on the bottom face, and which number is on the face directly opposite the one facing you.
- 2nd July 1976A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 3rd July 1976A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 4th July 1976State one way bile helps with the digestion of fats.
- 5th July 1976In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 6th July 1976Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 7th July 1976Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 8th July 1976Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 9th July 1976A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 10th July 1976A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 11th July 1976What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 12th July 1976A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 13th July 1976Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 14th July 1976Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 15th July 1976A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 16th July 1976A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 17th July 1976A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 18th July 1976Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 19th July 1976Write 3/5 as a decimal.
- 20th July 1976A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 21st July 1976An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 22nd July 1976Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).
- 23rd July 1976Simplify sqrt(75) - sqrt(12), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(3).
- 24th July 1976Work out 9.6 divided by 0.4.
- 25th July 1976Calculate 47 + 36.
- 26th July 1976Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 27th July 1976State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 28th July 1976In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 29th July 1976Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 30th July 1976State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.
- 31st July 1976State the word equation for aerobic respiration.