Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1979 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1979Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The fog rolled in from the sea.'
- 2nd July 1979A character 'checked her watch for the third time in a minute and sighed.' What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 3rd July 1979Which word class is 'cautiously' in the sentence 'She cautiously ran her glove along the rusted rail'?
- 4th July 1979A question asks you to "compare how the two poets present the sea." What is the best way to structure your answer?
- 5th July 1979Give one example of emotive language a writer might use to persuade pupils that reading is enjoyable rather than a chore.
- 6th July 1979In the line "Icicles hang like daggers from the eaves", which technique is used?
- 7th July 1979A triangular prism has a cross-sectional area of 15 cm^2 and a length of 12 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 8th July 1979Find 30% of 150.
- 9th July 1979Work out 13^2.
- 10th July 1979Find 5/6 of 72.
- 11th July 1979A recipe for 4 people uses 200g of butter. How much butter is needed for 10 people?
- 12th July 1979A tap fills a bucket at a constant rate of 3 litres every 2 minutes. Work out how many litres it fills in 10 minutes.
- 13th July 1979Calculate 74 - 38.
- 14th July 1979Work out -7 + 15.
- 15th July 1979A journey of 240 km takes 4 hours at a constant speed. Work out the speed in km/h.
- 16th July 1979Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 17th July 1979Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
- 18th July 1979State the law of reflection.
- 19th July 1979A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
- 20th July 1979Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 21st July 1979Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
- 22nd July 1979A question is worth 4 marks and asks you to explain the effect of a writer's language in a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 23rd July 1979Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two related sentences into one: 'The rain finally stopped ___ the match could go ahead after all.'
- 24th July 1979Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 25th July 1979Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 26th July 1979A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 27th July 1979A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 28th July 1979Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
- 29th July 1979Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 30th July 1979Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
- 31st July 1979Work out 9 x 8.