Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1978Name the process by which plants lose water vapour from their leaves.
- 2nd July 1978Name the process used to neutralise an acid using an alkali.
- 3rd July 1978Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The team celebrated ___ victory together. (their / there / they're)
- 4th July 1978A four-mark question asks you to explain the effect of the writer's language in one paragraph. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 5th July 1978A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "silent." Which of these fits: "hushed", "loud", "busy" or "bright"?
- 6th July 1978Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
- 7th July 1978Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go near the big wheel warned tom its not safe
- 8th July 1978A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 9th July 1978What is a rhetorical question, and why do persuasive writers use them?
- 10th July 1978List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 11th July 1978A right-angled triangle has two shorter sides of length 9 cm and 12 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 12th July 1978Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 13th July 1978A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 14th July 1978A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 15th July 1978Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 16th July 1978Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 17th July 1978Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 18th July 1978A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 19th July 1978A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 20th July 1978Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 21st July 1978Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 22nd July 1978Name the process by which cells release energy from glucose using oxygen.
- 23rd July 1978Name one renewable energy resource.
- 24th July 1978A pupil doubles the concentration of acid used in a reaction with a metal, keeping everything else the same. State what happens to the rate of the reaction.
- 25th July 1978A pupil's teacher suggests using a data logger to measure temperature every second during an experiment, instead of a pupil reading a thermometer every minute. Suggest one advantage of using a data logger in this experiment.
- 26th July 1978Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 27th July 1978Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 28th July 1978In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 29th July 1978Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 30th July 1978A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 31st July 1978An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?