Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1999 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in January 1999, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in January 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1999A poem has six lines in each stanza with no regular rhyme pattern. What is this style called?
- 2nd January 1999A cuboid measures 7 cm by 5 cm by 4 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 3rd January 1999Work out 12 x 7.
- 4th January 1999Work out 7 x 8 + 6 x 3.
- 5th January 1999Without a calculator, work out 45% of 160.
- 6th January 1999Ade and Bo share 56 sweets in the ratio 3:4. How many sweets does Bo receive?
- 7th January 1999108 pounds is shared between Amir and Bea in the ratio 4:5.
- 8th January 1999Write 0.4 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 9th January 1999Write 5/8 as a decimal.
- 10th January 1999Work out 7 x 9 - 4 x 5.
- 11th January 1999Name the green pigment, found in chloroplasts, that absorbs light energy for photosynthesis.
- 12th January 1999Name the group of the periodic table that contains elements which are almost completely unreactive because their outer electron shell is full.
- 13th January 1999State whether the Earth's day (one full rotation on its axis) or the Earth's year (one full orbit of the Sun) takes longer.
- 14th January 1999A sound wave has a high frequency. State whether this means it has a high pitch or a low pitch.
- 15th January 1999Name the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 16th January 1999Name the small intestine's main job in the digestive system.
- 17th January 1999Which word means the same as 'ancient' in a sentence describing an old, crumbling castle: 'timeworn', 'modern', 'spacious' or 'lively'?
- 18th January 1999Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: Regular ___ at the piano will improve your technique. (practice / practise)
- 19th January 1999Identify and correct the pronoun error: 'The dog wagged their tail happily.'
- 20th January 1999A poem compares old age to 'a candle guttering low, still giving light.' Name this technique.
- 21st January 1999Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The fire hissed and spat its sparks'?
- 22nd January 1999Find and copy one word from 'the mist swallowed the path ahead of him' that gives the mist a human or animal-like quality.
- 23rd January 1999Which sentence uses a semicolon correctly? A) I like tennis; and swimming. B) I like tennis; my sister prefers swimming.
- 24th January 1999A diver signals "all clear" with a steady hand, but his eyes keep darting towards the wreck's dark entrance. Explain what the contrast between his signal and his eyes suggests.
- 25th January 1999Simplify 5x + 3y - 2x + 7y.
- 26th January 1999Find 1/3 of 96.
- 27th January 1999Work out -12 + 4 x 3.
- 28th January 1999Solve x^2 - 2x - 24 = 0.
- 29th January 1999Work out 207 divided by 9, showing your written method.
- 30th January 1999Work out 143 divided by 11.
- 31st January 1999At a small maths club meeting, every one of the 8 members shakes hands with every other member exactly once. Work out the total number of handshakes.