Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1980State whether sound can travel through a vacuum (empty space), and give a reason.
- 2nd March 1980State the name given to a chemical reaction that releases heat energy to the surroundings.
- 3rd March 1980State the products formed when a metal reacts with an acid.
- 4th March 1980A writer describes a bell as 'clanging its complaint into the empty square.' Name the poetic or literary technique used here.
- 5th March 1980Add the correct negative prefix to make this word mean 'not legal': legal.
- 6th March 1980Choose the correct word: We had ___ time to finish the test than we expected. (less / fewer)
- 7th March 1980What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
- 8th March 1980Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
- 9th March 1980A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 10th March 1980In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 11th March 1980A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
- 12th March 1980A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 13th March 1980Work out 40% of 65.
- 14th March 1980A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 15th March 1980p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 16th March 1980Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 17th March 1980Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 18th March 1980A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 19th March 1980A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 20th March 1980Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 21st March 1980State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 22nd March 1980Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 23rd March 1980A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
- 24th March 1980State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 25th March 1980Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 26th March 1980A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
- 27th March 1980A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 28th March 1980What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 29th March 1980A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 30th March 1980Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 31st March 1980Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.