Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1978A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
- 2nd February 1978On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
- 3rd February 1978The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
- 4th February 1978Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 5th February 19783/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
- 6th February 1978Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).
- 7th February 1978Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
- 8th February 1978Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
- 9th February 1978Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
- 10th February 1978120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
- 11th February 1978Name the joint type found in the hip, and state one other place in the body where this same joint type is found.
- 12th February 1978Complete the word equation: hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide produces ___ + ___.
- 13th February 1978A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
- 14th February 1978Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
- 15th February 1978A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
- 16th February 1978State whether an acid has a pH value above or below 7.
- 17th February 1978A hazard symbol shows a skull and crossbones on an orange background. State what hazard this represents.
- 18th February 1978In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
- 19th February 1978In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
- 20th February 1978A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
- 21st February 1978An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
- 22nd February 1978Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
- 23rd February 1978Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
- 24th February 1978Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
- 25th February 1978Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
- 26th February 1978Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.
- 27th February 1978A laptop valued at 900 pounds depreciates by 12% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 28th February 1978Work out -15 + 4 x (-2).