Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1977 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1977
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1977A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 2nd September 1977A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 3rd September 1977Calculate 74 - 38.
- 4th September 1977Work out -7 + 15.
- 5th September 1977A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 6th September 1977Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 7th September 1977State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 8th September 1977A red filter is held in front of a torch shining white light. State which colour of light passes through the filter.
- 9th September 1977State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 10th September 1977Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 11th September 1977A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 12th September 1977A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 13th September 1977Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 14th September 1977Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 15th September 1977Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 16th September 1977A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 17th September 1977A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 18th September 1977In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 19th September 1977Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 20th September 1977The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 21st September 1977Work out 9 x 8.
- 22nd September 1977Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 23rd September 1977y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 24th September 1977Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 25th September 1977Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 26th September 1977A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 27th September 1977State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 28th September 1977Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 29th September 1977Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 30th September 1977State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.