Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
February 1999 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in February 1999, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in February 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1999A right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 17 cm and one leg of 8 cm. Calculate the length of the other leg.
- 2nd February 1999Write the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 2n^2.
- 3rd February 1999A food sample turns from blue to brick-red when Benedict's solution is added and the mixture is heated. State which nutrient this positive result shows is present.
- 4th February 1999State the method used to extract aluminium from its ore, and explain why this method is needed rather than reduction with carbon.
- 5th February 1999A pupil measures a length as 250 mm. State this length in metres.
- 6th February 1999State how many natural moons orbit the Earth.
- 7th February 1999A pupil measures the volume of a gas produced in a reaction every 30 seconds. State whether the volume of gas is the independent or the dependent variable.
- 8th February 1999A cylinder of gas is labelled with a diamond-shaped symbol showing a black flame on an orange background. State what hazard this symbol represents.
- 9th February 1999A writer describes rising ocean temperatures as "a slow-burning threat to one of the planet's most colourful ecosystems." Explain what effect the phrase "slow-burning" has on the reader.
- 10th February 1999A poem compares loneliness to 'an empty chair at a crowded table.' Name this technique.
- 11th February 1999Explain why a poet might choose an irregular, unpredictable rhythm to describe a storm, rather than a steady, regular one.
- 12th February 1999Choose the correct homophone: ___ going to be late if the bus does not arrive soon. (Whose / Who's)
- 13th February 1999Identify the subordinate clause in this sentence: Because the fire alarm sounded, everyone left the building calmly.
- 14th February 1999What is the term for a poem that continues a sentence or idea from one line to the next without a pause?
- 15th February 1999In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The expedition team faced constant attrition - illness, injury and exhaustion wore down their numbers day by day.' What does 'attrition' mean here?
- 16th February 1999A train travels 90 km in 1.5 hours at a constant speed, shown as a straight line on a distance-time graph. Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 17th February 1999A survey asked 20 people how many pets they own: 5 people own 0 pets, 8 own 1 pet, 4 own 2 pets, and 3 own 3 pets. Work out the mean number of pets owned.
- 18th February 1999Find 3/8 of 64.
- 19th February 1999A recipe for 8 people uses flour, sugar and butter in the ratio 4 : 3 : 1 by weight, totalling 800 g. Work out how many grams of sugar are needed to make the recipe for 12 people.
- 20th February 1999A circle has a radius of 10 cm. Work out the area of a sector with an angle of 72 degrees at the centre, giving your answer to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
- 21st February 1999In a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 13 cm and one other side is 5 cm. Work out the size of the angle opposite the 5 cm side, to 1 decimal place.
- 22nd February 1999A triangle has sides 7 cm and 9 cm with an included angle of 50 degrees. Work out its area, to 1 decimal place.
- 23rd February 1999Work out the mean of 8, 12, 15, 9 and 11.
- 24th February 1999Find 25% of 84 pounds.
- 25th February 1999Name the male gamete and the female gamete involved in human reproduction.
- 26th February 1999Name the acid that produces nitrate salts.
- 27th February 1999A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Use wave speed = frequency x wavelength to calculate its speed.
- 28th February 1999State the pH of a neutral solution such as pure water.