Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
October 1998 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in October 1998, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in October 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1998A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
- 2nd October 1998Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 3rd October 1998A 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?
- 4th October 1998A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
- 5th October 1998Work out 40% of 65.
- 6th October 1998A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
- 7th October 1998p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
- 8th October 1998Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 9th October 1998Work out 5/6 of 90.
- 10th October 1998A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 11th October 1998A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
- 12th October 1998A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 13th October 1998Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 14th October 1998Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 15th October 1998Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 16th October 1998Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 17th October 1998State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 18th October 1998A 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.
- 19th October 1998A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
- 20th October 1998What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
- 21st October 1998A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 22nd October 1998Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 23rd October 1998Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 24th October 1998A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 25th October 1998A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 26th October 1998A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 27th October 1998A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.
- 28th October 1998Write 3/5 as a decimal.
- 29th October 1998After a 12% pay rise, Priya's monthly salary is 2,240 pounds. Work out her monthly salary before the pay rise.
- 30th October 1998On a map with a scale of 1 : 25,000, two villages are 6.8 cm apart. Work out the real-life distance between the villages, in kilometres.
- 31st October 1998Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).