Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
December 1998 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in December 1998, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in December 1998
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1998A solid is heated until it turns directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first. Name this change of state.
- 2nd December 1998State the approximate time it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
- 3rd December 1998Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The two teams kits were both muddy after the match. (There is one kit set per team, and two teams in total.)
- 4th December 1998A four-mark question asks you to explain the effect of the writer's language in one paragraph. Roughly how many separate points should your answer include?
- 5th December 1998A question asks you to "find and copy one word" meaning "silent." Which of these fits: "hushed", "loud", "busy" or "bright"?
- 6th December 1998Identify the four stages of a well-structured short narrative.
- 7th December 1998Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: dont go near the big wheel warned tom its not safe
- 8th December 1998A speaker opens with a short, true story about one shy pupil who became the club's best speaker. What is this technique called?
- 9th December 1998A speech opens with the line: 'Imagine losing your home in a single night.' What technique is this, and why is it an effective opening?
- 10th December 1998List all the factors of 30, and state the highest common factor (HCF) of 30 and 45.
- 11th December 1998The three angles of a triangle are in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. Work out the size of the largest angle.
- 12th December 1998Simplify 7x - 3y + 2x + 8y.
- 13th December 1998A right-angled triangle has shorter sides of 7 cm and 24 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse.
- 14th December 1998A bag contains 9 red, 8 blue and 7 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability it is green, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 15th December 1998Work out 15% of 340 pounds.
- 16th December 1998Work out 8.3 x 5.2, giving your answer to 1 decimal place.
- 17th December 1998Simplify the ratio 45:60.
- 18th December 1998A netball team played 20 matches. The table shows goals scored per match. Goals: 0, 1, 2, 3. Frequency: 4, 7, 6, 3. Calculate the mean number of goals per match.
- 19th December 1998A slice of toast contains 12 g of carbohydrate, 4 g of protein and 3 g of fat. Each gram of carbohydrate and each gram of protein provides 4 kcal of energy, and each gram of fat provides 9 kcal. Calculate the total energy content of the toast.
- 20th December 1998Name the technique used to separate sand from a mixture of sand and water.
- 21st December 1998Ben has a mass of 12 kg. Calculate his weight on Earth. Use weight = mass x gravitational field strength, with g = 10 N/kg.
- 22nd December 1998State whether burning magnesium ribbon in air to form magnesium oxide is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 23rd December 1998Using the reactivity series, state whether iron would react with a solution of copper sulfate, given that iron is more reactive than copper.
- 24th December 1998State the name of the process by which oxygen moves from the air in the lungs into the blood.
- 25th December 1998A pupil uses a stopwatch to measure how long a candle takes to burn down by 1 cm, but forgets to shield the candle from a draught in the room. State whether this makes the result less reliable or less valid, and explain your answer.
- 26th December 1998Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The cellar was DARK."
- 27th December 1998Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'Although the fog was thick, the fishermen still set out.'
- 28th December 1998In 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?
- 29th December 1998Find and copy one word from 'the corridor swallowed the beam of her torch' that gives the corridor a human or animal-like quality.
- 30th December 1998A poem describes a train as having a "rattling, roaring, rumbling" journey. Name the technique shown by these three words together.
- 31st December 1998An 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?