Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
March 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1981A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 2nd March 1981Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 3rd March 1981A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 4th March 1981Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 5th March 1981Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 6th March 1981Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 7th March 1981What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 8th March 1981Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
- 9th March 1981A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 10th March 1981Find 35% of 180.
- 11th March 1981Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 12th March 1981Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 13th March 1981Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 14th March 1981A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 15th March 1981A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 16th March 1981A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 17th March 1981Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 18th March 1981State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 19th March 1981A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
- 20th March 1981Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 21st March 1981State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 22nd March 1981Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 23rd March 1981On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 24th March 1981A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 25th March 1981What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 26th March 1981A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
- 27th March 1981Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
- 28th March 1981Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
- 29th March 1981Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
- 30th March 1981Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
- 31st March 1981Two coins are flipped at the same time. List all the possible outcomes, and find the probability of getting exactly one head.