Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1978Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
- 2nd December 1978Complete the word equation for photosynthesis: carbon dioxide + water produces ___ + ___.
- 3rd December 1978Explain why a pencil, not a pen, must be used to draw the baseline on chromatography paper.
- 4th December 1978An astronaut has a mass of 70 kg on Earth. State her mass on the Moon, and explain why her weight on the Moon is less than her weight on Earth.
- 5th December 1978Using the periodic table, state whether the element chlorine (Cl) is a metal or a non-metal.
- 6th December 1978Give the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
- 7th December 1978State the name of a reaction in which a more reactive metal displaces a less reactive metal from a compound.
- 8th December 1978In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 9th December 1978Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 10th December 1978Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 11th December 1978Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 12th December 1978Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 13th December 1978Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 14th December 1978Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 15th December 1978A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 16th December 1978Without a calculator, work out 15% of 180.
- 17th December 1978Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 18th December 1978Find 2/9 of 63.
- 19th December 1978Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 20th December 1978A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 21st December 1978Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 22nd December 1978A rectangular field measuring 60 m by 40 m is to be divided into identical square plots, as large as possible, with no land left over. Work out the side length of each square plot, and the total number of plots.
- 23rd December 1978A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 24th December 1978A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 25th December 1978Put these structures in the order air passes through them when breathing in, starting from the windpipe: alveoli, bronchi, trachea, bronchioles.
- 26th December 1978A piece of magnesium ribbon is added to silver nitrate solution. State whether a displacement reaction would occur, and explain why.
- 27th December 1978Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 28th December 1978Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 29th December 1978State the pH value of a neutral solution, such as pure water.
- 30th December 1978Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 31st December 1978In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?