Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1978State the name given to a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to the surroundings.
- 2nd January 1978State the products formed when a metal reacts with an acid.
- 3rd January 1978A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 4th January 1978Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 5th January 1978Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 6th January 1978Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 7th January 1978A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 8th January 1978A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 9th January 1978Which punctuation mark is missing, and where, from this sentence: Please bring your pencil case ruler and calculator to the exam.
- 10th January 1978In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 11th January 1978A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 12th January 1978Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 13th January 1978Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 14th January 1978A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 15th January 1978A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 16th January 1978A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 17th January 1978A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 18th January 1978A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 19th January 1978Rearrange the formula P = 2l + 2w to make w the subject.
- 20th January 1978State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 21st January 1978Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 22nd January 1978Define the terms 'solute' and 'solvent'.
- 23rd January 1978Name the force that causes objects to fall towards the ground when dropped.
- 24th January 1978Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 25th January 1978A student measures the length of a metal rod five times: 62.1 cm, 62.4 cm, 62.0 cm, 62.5 cm, 62.2 cm. Calculate the mean length of the rod.
- 26th January 1978Which word means the same as "ascend" in a sentence about a balloon rising into the sky: "climb", "sink", "hover" or "spin"?
- 27th January 1978Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
- 28th January 1978What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
- 29th January 1978Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
- 30th January 1978Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
- 31st January 1978Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.