Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
April 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1978Name the gas produced when a reactive metal reacts with a dilute acid.
- 2nd April 1978Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
- 3rd April 1978A pupil measures the mass of a metal washer five times using a balance and gets: 14.2 g, 14.5 g, 14.1 g, 14.6 g, 14.1 g. Calculate the mean mass, giving your answer to 3 significant figures.
- 4th April 1978Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Dust rose from the floor, and Elias covered his mouth."
- 5th April 1978Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The old house was SCARY.'
- 6th April 1978Which word from 'the tannoy crackled out another indistinct apology' suggests the announcement was hard to understand?
- 7th April 1978A diver 'counted her breaths, trying to make each one last longer than the last.' What does this suggest about her situation?
- 8th April 1978In a poem, the line "Waves gnaw at the cliff's grey chin" contains an example of which technique?
- 9th April 1978An article states 'Pupils who read for pleasure for just ten minutes a day report feeling calmer.' Name the technique used here.
- 10th April 1978A poem describes wind as "howling" and "moaning" through bare branches. Name the technique shown by these two words.
- 11th April 1978An L-shaped room is made from a 6 m by 4 m rectangle with a 2 m by 3 m rectangle removed from one corner. Calculate the area of the room.
- 12th April 1978Round 6.849 to 1 decimal place.
- 13th April 1978A coat costs 80 pounds. Its price increases by 25%. Work out the new price.
- 14th April 1978A prize of 240 pounds is shared between three friends in the ratio 1:2:5. Work out the smallest share.
- 15th April 1978A map has a scale of 1:20000. Two towns are 7cm apart on the map. Work out the real distance between them, in km.
- 16th April 1978Work out 3 + 6 x 2 - 4.
- 17th April 1978A recipe uses 2 eggs for every 150 g of flour. Work out how many grams of flour are needed for 5 eggs, at the same ratio.
- 18th April 1978Work out -3 - 6.
- 19th April 1978Work out -9 + 15.
- 20th April 1978State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 21st April 1978State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 22nd April 1978A cliff is 170 m from a person who claps and hears the echo. Use distance = speed x time and a speed of sound of 340 m/s to calculate how long after the clap the echo is heard.
- 23rd April 1978State the number of protons found in an atom of oxygen, given that oxygen's atomic number is 8.
- 24th April 1978A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 25th April 1978Name the three states of matter.
- 26th April 1978A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 27th April 1978Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 28th April 1978Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 29th April 1978What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 30th April 1978Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.