Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1979 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1979A bag contains 5 red counters and 7 blue counters. Two counters are taken from the bag at random, one after the other, without replacement. Find the probability that both counters are the same colour.
- 2nd March 1979Put these organs in the order food passes through them during digestion: large intestine, mouth, stomach, small intestine, oesophagus.
- 3rd March 1979A pupil finds the volume of an irregular stone using a measuring cylinder. The water level rises from 35 cm^3 to 52 cm^3 when the stone is added. The stone has a mass of 42.5 g. Calculate the density of the stone, giving your answer to 2 significant figures.
- 4th March 1979State whether the main force acting when a compass needle points north is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 5th March 1979State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 6th March 1979Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
- 7th March 1979Name the process of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells for growth and repair.
- 8th March 1979A pupil uses a stopwatch to measure how long a candle takes to burn down by 1 cm, but forgets to shield the candle from a draught in the room. State whether this makes the result less reliable or less valid, and explain your answer.
- 9th March 1979Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go any further whispered grace something isnt right down here
- 10th March 1979Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in, and the harbour lights dimmed to a blur.'
- 11th March 1979A five-mark question asks you to explain how the writer builds a sense of frustration across the whole extract. What should your answer cover?
- 12th March 1979A question is worth 3 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 13th March 1979If a poem's rhythm becomes short and broken in its final stanza after being steady throughout, what might this suggest?
- 14th March 1979Name the technique used in this line: New worlds. New characters. New ideas, every single time.
- 15th March 1979If a poem starts with long, flowing lines and ends with very short, clipped lines, what effect might this create?
- 16th March 1979A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 17th March 1979Simplify 6a + 9 - 2a - 4.
- 18th March 1979Simplify 4(2x - 3) + 5.
- 19th March 1979A stall sells 4 sandwiches at 2.20 pounds each and 3 drinks at 1.10 pounds each. Work out the total cost, without a calculator.
- 20th March 1979Write the ratio 16:24 in its simplest form.
- 21st March 1979Work out 8 x 6.
- 22nd March 1979Find 3/5 of 45.
- 23rd March 1979Work out 15 x 14, using a written method.
- 24th March 1979Find 3/4 of 88.
- 25th March 1979A polar bear has thick white fur. State whether this is a structural or a behavioural adaptation, and explain why.
- 26th March 1979State whether reactivity increases or decreases going down Group 1, the alkali metals.
- 27th March 1979State whether the Earth's day (one full rotation on its axis) or the Earth's year (one full orbit of the Sun) takes longer.
- 28th March 1979A sound wave has a high frequency. State whether this means it has a high pitch or a low pitch.
- 29th March 1979A ball is dropped from a height and falls freely towards the ground. State the type of energy the ball gains as it speeds up.
- 30th March 1979A pupil applies a force of 8 N to a spring and it extends by 4 cm. Use spring constant = force / extension to calculate the spring constant, in N/cm.
- 31st March 1979A character says 'I'm fine' through gritted teeth, then slams the door. Explain what the contrast between the character's words and actions suggests.