Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1977 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1977
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1977Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 2nd July 1977State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.
- 3rd July 1977State what happens to the current in a series circuit if an extra identical bulb is added, assuming the battery voltage stays the same.
- 4th July 1977Name the organ system that carries electrical signals around the body to allow a fast reflex reaction, such as pulling a hand away from something hot.
- 5th July 1977A pupil applies a force of 10 N to move an object 2 m in the direction of the force. Use work done = force x distance to calculate the work done.
- 6th July 1977A student wears safety goggles when heating a test tube of liquid over a Bunsen burner. State the hazard that the goggles help protect against.
- 7th July 1977A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 8th July 1977What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 9th July 1977A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 10th July 1977Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 11th July 1977Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 12th July 1977Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 13th July 1977Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 14th July 1977A fair six-sided dice is rolled once. Find the probability of rolling a number greater than 4.
- 15th July 1977In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
- 16th July 1977A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 17th July 1977Simplify the ratio 32:12.
- 18th July 1977A fair coin is flipped and a fair six-sided dice is rolled at the same time. Work out the probability of getting heads on the coin and a number greater than 4 on the dice.
- 19th July 1977Femi can complete a job alone in 2 hours, Grace can complete the same job alone in 3 hours, and Hassan can complete it alone in 6 hours. Working together at these constant rates, how long will it take them to complete the job?
- 20th July 1977Factorise fully 10x + 15.
- 21st July 1977Work out 2^5 - 3^3.
- 22nd July 1977A jacket priced at 84 pounds is increased by 25% for the winter season. Calculate the new price.
- 23rd July 1977State whether human eye colour is an example of inherited variation, environmental variation, or both.
- 24th July 1977State whether an exothermic reaction transfers energy to, or takes in energy from, the surroundings.
- 25th July 1977State the unit normally used for speed in physics, and name one other unit that speed could also correctly be measured in.
- 26th July 1977Two forces of 10 N and 10 N act on an object in exactly opposite directions. Calculate the resultant force.
- 27th July 1977State the unit used to measure electric current.
- 28th July 1977State the name of the force that acts to slow down a moving object due to contact between two surfaces.
- 29th July 1977Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: the coach shouted keep going were nearly there
- 30th July 1977A writer describes sawdust as 'settling like a light snowfall over every surface.' Name the technique used.
- 31st July 1977In an extract, a character "kept glancing at the door and twisting the strap of her bag." What does this suggest about the character's feelings?