Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1977 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1977
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1977A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 2nd March 1977Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 3rd March 1977After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 4th March 1977On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
- 5th March 1977Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 6th March 1977Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 7th March 1977A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 8th March 1977Work out 9 x 7.
- 9th March 1977State two functions of the human skeleton.
- 10th March 1977Describe the test for carbon dioxide gas, and state the positive result.
- 11th March 1977State whether the north pole of one bar magnet placed near the north pole of a second bar magnet will attract or repel.
- 12th March 1977A solution has pH 10. State whether it is acidic, neutral or alkaline.
- 13th March 1977A diver swims from the surface down to a depth of 10 m in a swimming pool. State how the water pressure on her body changes as she swims deeper, and give a reason.
- 14th March 1977A pupil measures the resultant force on an object as 0 N even though several forces are acting on it. State the term used to describe forces in this situation.
- 15th March 1977State the name given to a value read from a graph that lies between two points that were actually measured.
- 16th March 1977Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 17th March 1977A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 18th March 1977A travel brochure and a science textbook both describe coral reefs. Which is more likely to use exaggerated, emotive language, and why?
- 19th March 1977A leaflet states 'You could help save a hundred bottles a year.' Which word directly addresses the reader?
- 20th March 1977Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The rain fell steadily.'
- 21st March 1977Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the suitcase on the platform."
- 22nd March 1977Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Crates of fruit lined the pavement."
- 23rd March 1977A survey of 40 students' favourite sport is shown in a pie chart. If football takes up a sector of 90 degrees, what percentage of students chose football?
- 24th March 1977Solve x^2 - 5x + 6 = 0.
- 25th March 1977A survey asked 25 people how many books they read last month: 6 people read 0, 10 read 1, 6 read 2, 3 read 3. Work out the mean number of books read.
- 26th March 1977Work out 60% of 45.
- 27th March 1977A researcher wants to find the average pocket money received by pupils at a school, so she surveys only the pupils waiting outside the head teacher's office. Give one reason this is likely to produce a biased sample.
- 28th March 1977A triangle is inscribed in a circle so that one of its sides is a diameter of the circle. Explain, using a circle theorem, why the angle at the third vertex (opposite that side) must be 90 degrees.
- 29th March 1977Expand 4(3x + 2).
- 30th March 1977Work out 12.6 divided by 0.3.
- 31st March 1977Fatima earns 1800 pounds a month and saves 12% of her earnings. Calculate how much she saves each month.