Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1976 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1976
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1976A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 5 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 2nd December 1976The nth term of a sequence is 4n + 3. Work out the 20th term.
- 3rd December 1976Work out 84 / 12.
- 4th December 1976A scatter graph plots the number of hours 10 students spent revising against their test scores. The points show that more hours of revision is generally associated with a higher test score, though not perfectly. Describe the type of correlation shown, and state one thing this correlation does not prove.
- 5th December 1976Simplify (3x^2 y^3)^2 divided by 9x^3 y^4, giving your answer as simply as possible.
- 6th December 1976p = 5, q = -2. Work out the value of 3p + q.
- 7th December 1976A bag has 4 yellow and 6 purple counters. Find the probability of picking a purple counter.
- 8th December 1976Write 3/8 as a percentage.
- 9th December 1976Name the specialised cell in humans that is adapted with a long tail and many mitochondria to swim toward an egg cell.
- 10th December 1976State what happens to a catalyst during a chemical reaction.
- 11th December 1976State one reason, other than cost, why a country might want to reduce its reliance on non-renewable energy resources such as coal and oil.
- 12th December 1976State whether a frog is classified as a vertebrate or an invertebrate, and give a reason.
- 13th December 1976A trolley of mass 2 kg is raised to a height of 5 m. Use GPE = mass x gravitational field strength x height (g = 10 N/kg) to calculate its gravitational potential energy.
- 14th December 1976Name the planet in our solar system that is closest to the Sun.
- 15th December 1976This sentence contains a comma splice: The match ended in a draw, both teams were happy. Correct it in one way.
- 16th December 1976In an extract, a character 'set down his tools without a word and walked out into the rain.' What might this action suggest about his state of mind?
- 17th December 1976A writer describes a clock as "ticking its patient warning through the empty hall." Name the poetic technique used here.
- 18th December 1976Punctuate this exchange, adding inverted commas, capital letters and any other punctuation needed: are you sure about this asked Leo his sister nodded without looking up
- 19th December 1976Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: The funfair was SCARY.
- 20th December 1976A speaker says 'Ninety per cent of our debate club members say it changed how they see arguments.' Name the technique used here.
- 21st December 1976A campaign letter opens with a short, true story about one family affected by flooding, before giving any statistics. What is this technique called, and why might a writer use it first?
- 22nd December 1976Order these integers from smallest to largest: -6, 2, -3, 0, -9
- 23rd December 1976p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 4, p = 15. Work out the value of p when q = 10.
- 24th December 1976A triangle has base 10 cm and height 7 cm. Work out its area.
- 25th December 1976p is inversely proportional to q^2. When q = 2, p = 18. Work out p when q = 3.
- 26th December 1976The nth term of a sequence is 6n - 4. Work out the 12th term.
- 27th December 1976A car journey of 156 miles takes 2.4 hours. Work out the average speed, to the nearest mile per hour.
- 28th December 1976A rectangle has a perimeter of 38 cm and a width of 6.5 cm. Work out its length.
- 29th December 1976Find the area of a triangle with base 12 cm and height 7 cm.
- 30th December 1976A box contains 7 yellow pencils, 5 blue pencils and 3 green pencils. A pencil is picked at random. Find the probability that it is not blue.
- 31st December 1976State one structure found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell.