Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
May 1999 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every 13+ Common Entrance sheet published in May 1999, with answers. Common Entrance english, maths and science.
Every sheet in May 1999
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1999Work out 20 - 3 x 4.
- 2nd May 1999A number is tripled and then 5 is added, giving 32. Form an equation and find the number.
- 3rd May 1999Simplify the ratio 18:24 to its simplest form.
- 4th May 1999Name the food group that provides the body with the most energy per gram.
- 5th May 1999State the property used to arrange the elements in order in the modern periodic table.
- 6th May 1999State the law of reflection.
- 7th May 1999A student shouts and hears an echo 0.6 s later off a distant wall. Given the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s, calculate the total distance travelled by the sound (there and back).
- 8th May 1999Calculate the mean of these three repeat readings of a force: 4.2 N, 4.6 N, 4.4 N.
- 9th May 1999A circuit has a total resistance of 12 ohm and a current of 0.5 A flowing through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the circuit.
- 10th May 1999In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 11th May 1999Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 12th May 1999Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 13th May 1999Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 14th May 1999Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 15th May 1999Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 16th May 1999Add an apostrophe in the correct place: The three girls coats were left on the bus. (There is one coat per girl, and three girls in total.)
- 17th May 1999A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 18th May 1999The probability that a spinner lands on red is 0.35. Work out the probability that it does not land on red.
- 19th May 1999Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 20th May 1999Find 2/9 of 63.
- 21st May 1999Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 22nd May 1999A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 23rd May 1999Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 24th May 1999A cube with side length 4 cm is built from 64 unit cubes, each 1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm. The outside of the large cube is painted red, then it is taken apart into the 64 unit cubes again. How many of the unit cubes have exactly two faces painted red?
- 25th May 1999A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 26th May 1999Write the next two terms of the sequence: 3, 7, 11, 15, ...
- 27th May 1999Complete the word equation for aerobic respiration: glucose + oxygen produces ___ + ___.
- 28th May 1999State one way that painting a garden gate helps to prevent it from rusting.
- 29th May 1999Write the number 0.048706 to 2 significant figures.
- 30th May 1999State the name of the rock type formed when magma cools and solidifies underground.
- 31st May 1999Name the organ in the human body that produces insulin.