Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 1976 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1976
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1976Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 2nd October 1976Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 3rd October 1976Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 4th October 1976State whether the Earth's day (one full rotation on its axis) or the Earth's year (one full orbit of the Sun) takes longer.
- 5th October 1976A sound wave has a high frequency. State whether this means it has a high pitch or a low pitch.
- 6th October 1976Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 7th October 1976State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 8th October 1976Which word means the same as 'ancient' in a sentence describing an old, crumbling castle: 'timeworn', 'modern', 'spacious' or 'lively'?
- 9th October 1976Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: Regular ___ at the piano will improve your technique. (practice / practise)
- 10th October 1976Identify and correct the pronoun error: 'The dog wagged their tail happily.'
- 11th October 1976A poem compares old age to 'a candle guttering low, still giving light.' Name this technique.
- 12th October 1976Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The fire hissed and spat its sparks'?
- 13th October 1976Find and copy one word from 'the mist swallowed the path ahead of him' that gives the mist a human or animal-like quality.
- 14th October 1976Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
- 15th October 1976A diver signals "all clear" with a steady hand, but his eyes keep darting towards the wreck's dark entrance. Explain what the contrast between his signal and his eyes suggests.
- 16th October 1976Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 17th October 1976Find 1/3 of 96.
- 18th October 1976Work out -12 + 4 x 3.
- 19th October 1976Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
- 20th October 1976Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
- 21st October 1976Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 22nd October 1976A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 23rd October 1976A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 24th October 1976Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
- 25th October 1976Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 26th October 1976A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 27th October 1976A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
- 28th October 1976State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
- 29th October 1976State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 30th October 1976A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
- 31st October 1976A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.