Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1976 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1976
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1976A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 2nd November 1976Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 3rd November 1976Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 4th November 1976Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 5th November 1976What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 6th November 1976In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 7th November 1976A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 8th November 1976A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 9th November 1976Find 3/8 of 64.
- 10th November 1976Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 11th November 1976Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 12th November 1976In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
- 13th November 1976A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
- 14th November 1976Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 15th November 1976Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 16th November 1976Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 17th November 1976State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 18th November 1976A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 19th November 1976State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.
- 20th November 1976State whether the Earth casting a shadow that blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon is called a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.
- 21st November 1976Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 22nd November 1976On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 23rd November 1976A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 24th November 1976A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 25th November 1976In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The submersible's hull must withstand immense pressure at such depths, where a single flaw could prove catastrophic.' What does 'catastrophic' mean here?
- 26th November 1976Name the technique used in this slogan: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
- 27th November 1976Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for 'the alleyway at dusk.'
- 28th November 1976Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The station was BUSY."
- 29th November 1976Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the fruit stall."
- 30th November 1976A coin is flipped 200 times and lands on heads 118 times. Calculate the relative frequency of landing on heads.