Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
November 1979 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 19793 workers can paint a fence in 8 hours, working at the same constant rate. How long would it take 4 workers to paint the same fence?
- 2nd November 1979Find 10% of 95 pounds.
- 3rd November 1979Work out 9 x 8.
- 4th November 1979A coat costs 80 pounds. It is reduced by 35% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 5th November 1979Work out 15% of 60.
- 6th November 1979Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 7th November 1979State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 8th November 1979Put these bodies in order of their distance from the Sun, starting with the closest: Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus.
- 9th November 1979State whether elements in the same group of the periodic table have similar or very different chemical properties.
- 10th November 1979Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 11th November 1979A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 12th November 1979A question asks you to 'summarise the passage in your own words.' What must you avoid doing when answering it?
- 13th November 1979Is the relative clause in this sentence defining or non-defining, and should it have commas: 'The teacher who marked our essays gave detailed feedback' (assume there are several teachers)?
- 14th November 1979Which sentence is correct if you mean you carried your umbrella with you: 'I brought my umbrella yesterday' or 'I bought my umbrella yesterday'?
- 15th November 1979Find and copy one word from 'the wind stripped the last brave leaves from the oak' that suggests the leaves were trying to resist the wind.
- 16th November 1979A poem compares old age to 'a coat grown heavy with wear.' Name this technique.
- 17th November 1979A question worth 4 marks asks you to explain the effect of a writer's description. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 18th November 1979This sentence contains a comma splice: The rain started early, we cancelled the picnic. Correct it in one way.
- 19th November 1979In an extract, a diver "checked her air gauge twice in under a minute." What does this suggest about how she is feeling?
- 20th November 1979The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 21st November 1979Simplify the ratio 45:30.
- 22nd November 1979Write 5:20 as a ratio in its simplest form.
- 23rd November 1979A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 9 cm and 40 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 24th November 1979A jacket costs 64 pounds. It is reduced by 15% in a sale. Work out the sale price.
- 25th November 1979A jug holds 1.8 litres. Work out how many millilitres this is.
- 26th November 1979A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 27th November 1979A triangle has a base of 14 cm and a perpendicular height of 5 cm. Calculate its area.
- 28th November 1979Using the formula v = u + at, find v when u = 5, a = 3 and t = 4.
- 29th November 1979Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 30th November 1979State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.