Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1980Name the piece of equipment used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid.
- 2nd June 1980A pupil wants to find out whether increasing the concentration of a salt solution affects the boiling point of water. Suggest one variable, other than salt concentration, that should be kept the same for this to be a fair test.
- 3rd June 1980Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 4th June 1980Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 5th June 1980In an extract, the writer moves from describing the busy platform to focusing closely on one child crying by the ticket barrier. What effect might this shift in focus create?
- 6th June 1980Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 7th June 1980A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 8th June 1980An article opens with a short story about one pupil who found a favourite book by accident, before making any wider argument. What is this technique called?
- 9th June 1980A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 10th June 1980Calculate the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 cm. Use pi = 3.14.
- 11th June 1980Work out 12 x 7.
- 12th June 1980Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 13th June 1980Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 14th June 1980Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 15th June 1980108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 16th June 1980Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 17th June 1980Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 18th June 1980Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 19th June 1980State one way a communicable disease differs from a non-communicable disease.
- 20th June 1980State the name given to a horizontal row of the periodic table.
- 21st June 1980State why an astronaut in open space, far from any planet or star, cannot hear an explosion happening nearby.
- 22nd June 1980Name the green pigment found in chloroplasts that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 23rd June 1980A pupil records the mass of a beaker of ice every 2 minutes as it melts. State which variable is the independent variable in this investigation.
- 24th June 1980Name the three states of matter.
- 25th June 1980Which word means the same as 'ancient' in a sentence describing an old, crumbling castle: 'timeworn', 'modern', 'spacious' or 'lively'?
- 26th June 1980Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: Regular ___ at the piano will improve your technique. (practice / practise)
- 27th June 1980Identify and correct the pronoun error: 'The dog wagged their tail happily.'
- 28th June 1980A poem compares old age to 'a candle guttering low, still giving light.' Name this technique.
- 29th June 1980Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The fire hissed and spat its sparks'?
- 30th June 1980Find and copy one word from 'the mist swallowed the path ahead of him' that gives the mist a human or animal-like quality.